Mixed-race couple: ‘The priest refused to marry us’Posted in Articles, Biography, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2017-03-01 13:32Z by Steven |
Mixed-race couple: ‘The priest refused to marry us’
BBC News Magazine
2017-03-01
 Phil Coomes Trudy and Barclay Patoir met during World War Two at a time when mixed-race relationships were still taboo. More than 70 years later they reveal the obstacles they had to overcome to stay together. |
When Trudy Menard and Barclay Patoir told friends and family they were going to get married, no-one thought it was a good idea – because Trudy was white and Barclay was black.
“When I told them at work they thought I was daft marrying a black man. They all said, ‘It won’t last you know,’ because it was a mixed-race marriage,” says Trudy.
“I think some people thought I was marrying beneath myself.”…
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