At the time of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018, many commentators seized on signs Britain’s royal family was embracing the 21st century.
The young prince was marrying a mixed-race, divorcee from America who showed independent spirit like Harry’s late mother Diana, the princess of Wales, and who was being welcomed with great fanfare into the royal household.
“It was as if the exclusivity of royalty and blue blood could be erased with a photo-op,” one Black British commentator, who asked not to be named, said in hindsight of the hopes the wedding once inspired.
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