{"id":55309,"date":"2017-11-29T02:15:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T02:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55309"},"modified":"2017-11-29T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T02:15:43","slug":"if-meghan-markle-had-darker-skin-there-would-not-be-a-wedding-bbc-guest-blasts-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55309","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If Meghan Markle had darker skin there would NOT be a wedding&#8217; \u2013 BBC guest blasts Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/885132\/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-engagement-racism-debate-BBC-Newsnight-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u2018If Meghan Markle had darker skin there would NOT be a wedding&#8217; \u2013 BBC guest blasts Royals<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Express<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-28<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiAStinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nicole Stinson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/2540076170001\/ByveBcs0_default\/index.html?videoId=5660882975001#t=12s\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRINCE Harry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghan_Markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle\u2019s<\/a> engagement sparked a heated debate on racial identity on <\/em>BBC\u2019s Newsnight <em>following the couple\u2019s wedding announcement on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ginger royal and American actress\u2019 engagement was officially announced by his father the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince of Wales<\/a> in a statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clarence_House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clarence House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pop_the_question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">popped the question<\/a> to Ms Markle earlier this month in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a> and their engagement has sparked a debate on race \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suits_(U.S._TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Suits<\/em><\/a> actress is the first person of mixed race origin to marry into the royal family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieBCuff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff<\/a>, who writes for the online magazine \u201cby women of colour\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>gal-dem<\/em><\/a>, told <em>Newsnight<\/em>: \u201cI think if she was darker skinned it would be very unlikely that she would be marrying Prince Harry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her comments were backed by columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorginaLawton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgina Lawton<\/a> who added that if Harry had been next in line to the throne: \u201cI definitely think there would have been more racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThe people who are commenting on this issue and saying we don\u2019t need to discuss race and it is just two people who have fallen in love \u2013 I think you need to look at the Prince\u2019s statement last year condemning the racial undertones of the press coverage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/885132\/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-engagement-racism-debate-BBC-Newsnight-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s engagement sparked a heated debate on racial identity on BBC\u2019s Newsnight following the couple\u2019s wedding announcement on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,10],"tags":[27729,24310,26540,20717,27730,27727,27720,27709,27728],"class_list":["post-55309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bbc-newsnight","tag-charlie-brinkhurst-cuff","tag-georgina-lawton","tag-meghan-markle","tag-newsnight","tag-nicole-stinson","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-henry-of-wales","tag-the-daily-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309","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=55309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55310,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309\/revisions\/55310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}