{"id":55284,"date":"2017-11-27T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55284"},"modified":"2017-11-28T04:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T04:09:37","slug":"when-meghan-weds-harry-britains-relationship-with-race-will-change-for-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55284","title":{"rendered":"When Meghan weds Harry, Britain\u2019s relationship with race will change for ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Meghan weds Harry, Britain\u2019s relationship with race will change for ever<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2017-11-27<\/p>\n

Afua Hirsch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t underestimate the symbolism of a royal marriage. From now on, it will be impossible to argue that being black is somehow incompatible with being British<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost two decades ago, during the heady first months of the new millennium, an unruly baroness named Kate Gavron made a shocking suggestion. Prince Charles<\/a>, she said, should have married someone black. It would be, she imagined, a powerful symbol of the monarchy\u2019s commitment to racial integration and multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

Gavron\u2019s comments were not well received at the time. As is so often the case with race and the royals, far more interesting than these remarks themselves, were the media reactions to them. Some suspected this was merely a clandestine attempt at \u201cgetting rid\u201d of the monarchy, erasing their heritage through interracial marriages. Not so much revolution, as racial dilution.<\/p>\n

Others assumed that for the Prince of Wales<\/a> to marry a \u201cblack girl\u201d – as the hypothetical person was described – would be to return to the loveless, strategic marriages the royals were once so famous for. It was obvious to commentators at the time that marrying a black girl, and marrying someone you actually loved, were both antithetical and mutually exclusive. After all, you couldn\u2019t expect an heir to the throne to actually be attracted to such a person…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t underestimate the symbolism of a royal marriage. From now on, it will be impossible to argue that being black is somehow incompatible with being British<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[11657,20717,27709,2103],"class_list":["post-55284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-afua-hirsch","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-henry-of-wales","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55286,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55284\/revisions\/55286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}