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Meghan Markle Is Faced With Racism At Christmas Lunch

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Dec. 22 2017, Updated 3:51 p.m. ET

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Meghan Markle’s ethnicity has become a topic of conversation for many because she is bi-racial, with a white father and black mother. Last November, Prince Harry even had to defend his now fiancée from criticism she faced, releasing a statement about the “racism of social media trolls.” But now, a member of the royal family is under scrutiny for wearing a racist artifact to the Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace earlier this week.

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Princess Michael of Kent, the wife of Queen Elizabeth’s cousin, was spotted wearing a blackamoor brooch portraying a black man in a gold turban.

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While blackamoors have a long history in decorative art, they are commonly fixed in positions of servitude, as waiters, and fetishize images of slavery.

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Many on Twitter had something to say about the accessory choice, with @allisonkotzig tweeting, “ummm, did anyone else clock this? Notorious racist princess Michael of kent wearing a Moor broach while attending lunch with Meghan Markle.”

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Last year, in a heartfelt post for Elle, Meghan addressed how she grew up facing challenges due to her ethnicity. “While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman.”

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She continued, “That when asked to choose my ethnicity in a questionnaire as in my seventh grade class, or these days to check 'Other', I simply say: 'Sorry, world, this is not Lost and I am not one of The Others. I am enough exactly as I am.'”

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Do you think it was inappropriate for Princess Michael of Kent to wear the brooch? Let us know in the comments section.

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