Meghan Markle Said She Wasn’t Perceived As A Black Woman Until She Started Dating Prince Harry
In a conversation with Mariah Carey on her Spotify podcast, Archetypes, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, said that she had always been perceived as a biracial woman (as opposed to a Black woman) until she began dating her now-husband, Prince Harry.
If there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I dated my husband,” Meghan said. “Then I started to understand [what it’s like] to be treated like a Black woman because up until then, I had been treated like a mixed woman, and things really shifted.”
Carey and the duchess, who each have one white parent and one Black parent, talked about their mixed-race identities.
“I was reading this article about Halle Berry, and they were asking her how she felt being treated as a mixed-race woman in th...