If Prince Harry marries Meghan, it’ll be a game changer for black people in Britain

I’ve already told my friends that if and when Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, we should all be outside Westminster Abbey and put on our best African outfit.

We’ve made it.

I say ‘we’ because even though she’s mixed race, the world still looks at her as black.

You only have to look at the comments under online articles about the couple and on social media to realise that.

Never in a million years did I think someone in the royal family would be romantically involved with someone whose skin is a darker hue than theirs.

It speaks volumes about how society is changing, albeit slowly. But it’s definitely changing.

The black community could be on the brink of having a quasi-representative among the royals.

We first saw something like this when Emma McQuiston, who is half-English and half-Nigerian, became Lady Weymouth.

Tatler’s front page said ‘At last!’ upon her engagement with her now-husband Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount of Weymouth.

I am waiting to breathe the same sigh of relief with ‘Haghan’.

Prince Harry marrying Meghan Markle shouldn’t make a difference to anyone but it does.

Picture the optics of the wedding.

Meghan Markle’s black rasta-haired mum walking side-by-side with Prince Charles down the centre aisle of the Abbey.

Just thinking about it makes me giddy with excitement.

It’s almost poetic how the descendant of an African slave might marry into a family whose ancestors financially benefited from the slave trade.

It means love has defied the odds.

Love has told the ‘establishment’ to move out of the way.

Love has transcended race in the most traditional institution in Britain.

Love wins.

So what does this potential marriage mean on a day-to-day basis for the black community in Britain?

Maybe not much.

But it sends shockwaves through the camps of those who think it best to keep black people in their place.

I bet they can scarcely believe it’s even happening.

A mixed-race, 36-year-old American divorcee could be Prince Harry’s wife…

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