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Months before marrying Meghan Markle, Prince Harry invited his fiancée to Elizabeth II's Christmas lunch,
an event held annually where the entire royal family met
, even the not-so-close ones.
He was delighted to be able to present his then formal girlfriend in society.
She had stopped working on the series
Suits
to assume a way of life away from the set and focused on the palace
.
But there was something that twitched the couple: Princess Maria Cristina of Kent
wore a brooch with the bust of a black man
.
A decoration accessory that was interpreted as a racist mockery.
Four medals hang from the lapels of the suit that Harry wore to his grandmother's funeral:
one for military merit and three others awarded by Elizabeth II
in her gold and platinum jubilees, in addition to the one she gave him when she decided to knight him for his services. to the Monarchy.
On his wedding day to Meghan, the queen also decided to treat his grandson and his recent wife to a noble title:
Duke of Sussex.
Lineage that has a racist, slave and colonialist past.
From the first to the fourth chapter of the homonymous series, Harry and Meghan emphasize the structural racism that emanates, according to them, from the royal family,
which still retains anachronistic supremacist overtones
.
Going even to be concerned about the skin color of Archie and Lilibet.
All this with the support of the tabloids and public opinion.
The Harry and Meghan series on screenAP
In the last episode they have remarked that this alleged discrimination led Meghan to have suicidal ideas.
"I was given to the wolves as bait
," she told Netflix cameras after her departure from her royal family.
According to her account, she wanted to
be a strange fish that ushered the Monarchy into the 21st century
, something she, she says, was incapable of.
However, she and Harry maintain the title of Duke and Sussex, whose history is strongly linked
to a racism far more potent than any bad joke
, newspaper headline or offensive comment.
Created in 1801 by King George III of the United Kingdom (1760-1820), the Duchy of Sussex was
the title that this monarch decided to leave as an inheritance to one of his 15 children,
Prince Augustus Frederick.
The 1st Duke of Sussex died in 1943, having only had children from his marriage to Lady Augusta Murray, daughter of the Earl of Dunmore.
Unfortunately, this marriage had been carried out in secret and was
declared void because it was contracted without royal consent
.
Neither of the prince's two sons was able to inherit this title, which was only resurrected centuries later, in 2018, thanks to Elizabeth II.
This present that the queen gave Harry and Meghan, however,
came loaded with a racist past: that of King George III.
The 1st Duke of Sussex, Augustus Frederick, son of King George IIIArchive
A staunch supporter of colonialism, George III of Great Britain supported the
London Society of West India Planters and Merchants
for decades ,
an organization that promoted human trafficking in the Caribbean colonies
.
Established in 1780 by British merchants and planters, this society
was strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery,
even in the low hours of this system.
Although it is unknown if the king supported this institution for racist reasons
, implicit in the method of serfdom of the colonial era, or for economic reasons.
A very long-lived sovereign, George III had to lower his colonialist ideas through three steps:
the Seven Years' War, the French Revolution and, above all, the American War of Independence
.
A trio of events that changed the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, the mentality of the time and the economic system.
However, the monarch and his son, the then Duke of Clarence who would later be King William IV,
did their best to delay the abolition of slavery for 20 years.
Finally, they could not ignore the
voices of Enlightenment activists such as William Wilberforce or Olympe de Gouges
, who called for an end to serfdom.
Late in his life, in 1807, a vote that began in the House of Commons and ended in the House of Lords
had to be initialed by the monarch
.
It was about the abolition of the serf trade.
But slavery was present until 1830.
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