The racism Meghan Markle says she experienced as a royal will be no surprise to Black Britons

It was the revelation that made Oprah Winfrey's jaw drop during an already explosive interview.

There were several "concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he was born," Meghan, Duchess of Sussex said of an issue raised by an unnamed member of the British royal family before the birth of her son Archie.

"But it was right at the beginning," her husband Prince Harry later added, "What will the kids look like?"

For some, these are shocking allegations, but for many Britons of color, Meghan's accusations of racism inside the palace echo a familiar lived experience on the streets of the UK.
Even the angry backlash, by those blindly defending the monarchy, resonate for those people who have spoken out only to be confronted by racism's evil twin sister -- defensiveness.
And many more will relate to the mental health issues that come with being marginalized in a predominantly -- or in Meghan's case completely -- White space, the sense of exclusion, the feeling of being unworthy, unwanted and afraid.

Throughout their two-hour TV special, aired in the United States on Sunday night, Meghan and Harry were careful to focus on the "system," "the firm," and the "institution," and never accused any specific individuals. This is perhaps a sign of respect to Prince Harry's grandmother, the Queen, and his other relatives across the Atlantic, but it also broadens the couple's struggle and ties it to the global anti-racism movement.

A few months after the couple left England -- moving first to Canada then California -- the death of George Floyd in Minnesota in May 2020 sparked mass demonstrations in cities around the world, including London, demanding greater equality and accountability for racial injustices both past and present.

In the UK, protesters directed their anger at the country's elite institutions of power, some such as monarchy which date back to colonialism and beyond, and the systems of class and race they perpetuate in modern-day Britain. In Bristol, southwest England, last June, activists pulled down a statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, and dumped it into the harbor, igniting a national conversation on race and history in the UK.

Just days earlier, Meghan voiced her support for the Black Lives Matter movement in a graduation message to her old high school from her home in Los Angeles.
"Now you get to be part of rebuilding. And I know sometimes people say, 'How many times we need to rebuild?' Well, you know what? We are going to rebuild, and rebuild, and rebuild until it is rebuilt. Because when the foundation is broken so are we," the Duchess of Sussex said in the video.

This moment of racial reckoning forced Britons to have the uncomfortable conversations around race and racism that are often considered culturally awkward, if not taboo.
"The British like to think of themselves as quite liberal and the British get quite offended if they are accused of racism," Diane Abbott, the first black woman elected to the UK's Parliament, told CNN in an interview last year.

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