But Prince Harry’s engagement this week to the American actor Meghan Markle, whose mother is black and father is white, struck a chord with a part of the population that is perhaps less typically associated with adoration of the royal family: black American women. Her tweet was part of a torrent of celebrations and funny gifs from people, who explored what it meant that this “black American princess” was actually mixed-race and the significance of her mother having dreadlocks. “For centuries, our stories, particularly for African American women, have gone mute, silenced by systems of oppression and hate,” Young, a writer and producer, told the Observer. “Prince Harry’s future mother-in-law is a black woman with dreadlocks,” the British writer Samara Linton tweeted. Elisa Tamarkin, author of Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America, said American interest in the British royal family transcended class, race and religious divisions.

Source: The Guardian December 02, 2017 13:02 UTC