{"id":55301,"date":"2017-11-29T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55301"},"modified":"2017-11-29T01:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:10:49","slug":"britains-black-queen-will-meghan-markle-really-be-the-first-mixed-race-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55301","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s black queen: Will Meghan Markle really be the first mixed-race royal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s black queen: Will Meghan Markle really be the first mixed-race royal?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2017-11-17<\/p>\n

DeNeen L. Brown<\/strong><\/a>, Feature Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA portrait of Queen Charlotte<\/a>, the wife of King George III<\/a>, and American actress Meghan Markle<\/a>, who is engaged to Prince Harry<\/a>. (Print Collector\/Getty Images and Daniel Leal-Olivas\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Britain\u2019s Prince Harry<\/a> and American actress Meghan Markle<\/a> announced their engagement Monday, Twitter<\/a> erupted with the news that the newest princess in the royal family would be biracial.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got us a Black princess ya\u2019ll,\u201d GirlTyler<\/a> exulted. \u201cShout out to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Their wedding will be my Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n

We got us a Black princess ya’ll. You really can’t tell me a damn thing for the rest of the day because it won’t matter. Shout out to Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a>. Their wedding will be my Super Bowl. pic.twitter.com\/WmBnGm5AuZ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 GirlTyler (@sheistyler<\/a>) November 27, 2017<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, may not be the first mixed-race royal.<\/p>\n

Some historians suspect that Queen Charlotte<\/a>, the wife of King George III<\/a> who bore the king 15 children, was of African descent…<\/p>\n

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

But Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, may not be the first mixed-race royal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,10],"tags":[27717,4203,4202,27719,27716,20717,27720,27709,27718,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-55301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-charlotte-of-mecklenburg-strelitz","tag-deneen-brown","tag-deneen-l-brown","tag-george-iii-of-the-united-kingdom","tag-king-george-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-henry-of-wales","tag-queen-charlotte","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55301","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=55301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55302,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55301\/revisions\/55302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}