'The first woman of colour to marry into the royal family and she's been chased out'. One year since #HarryandMeghan requested a model of part-time royal working. It could have worked - well. But instead the plan and the Sussexes were torn apart. And now we've lost them.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1219662392512122887
There was misogynoir before the wedding and it surged afterwards. And there became a mass hysteria over the '2.4 million' on Frogmore - when all royals live in Crown properties renovated by the Crown and no one seeemed to mind before.
All those who marry into the royal family have a hard time but with #Meghan, racism was off the scale. Attacks for wearing dark nail varnish and even liking avocados. Prince Harry said he feared her falling 'victim to the same powerful forces' as his mother. Still, on it went.
Harry and Meghan's aim with the part time royal plan was to be self funded while doing some royal duties. But strikingly, it seems to have been revised in public imagination to 'privacy'-thus every small zoom call to a charity is met by cries of 'but they wanted privacy!'
In 2020, we were told that they deserved to lose their titles when Meghan said people should vote in an election - when royals have said many times that voting was important. And efforts to stop drones chasing their baby around the back garden were attacked. Misogynoir continues
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