WI: William or Harry marry a black girl

[Alex1guy]

Hmmm what about a Pacific Island Princess... Sadly those are a dime a dozen these days however... Sigh...

 

[Custard Cream Monster]

I did a look around where the identifiable posters are located.

Overwhelming the Brits don't give a do-dah of the monkey as long as she behaves herself.

The' oh my God the world will end!' mob tend to be American.

I wonder what this tells us?

Americans want the Royal Family to be a certain sort of thing for their entertainment, even if they're our head of state?

 

[EdT]

Americans want the Royal Family to be a certain sort of thing for their entertainment, even if they're our head of state?

More I suspect that many American posters assume we get het up about the same things in Britain that they would in the US, and then find it strange when our own preoccupations are actually subtly different.

As Meadow said down thread, the issue isn't race in the slightest, it's class- the colour of a potential royal bride is quite immaterial compared to whether her parents live in a detached house or not, how they pronounce the word 'garage', and whether they shop as Asda or Waitrose. All else is window-dressing.

 

[Kidblast]

No one ever heard of Queen Charlotte? Cosort of George III and number 5 on the list of 100 greatest Black Britons. It's already happened people, she was Queen Victoria's grandmother, and our current Queen acknowledged her Afrcan (and Asian) blood lines at her coronation.

Queen Charlotte was only "African" because she was related to some Portugese noblewoman who lived in the 12th Century who may or may not have been a Moor.

If we're going on that basis, nearly everyone in Europe is "black" because who can account for all their ancestors who lived in the 12th century?

 

[GrandpaTanaka]

It would also matter how ethnic said girl was. There is going to be a difference between someone who grew up in Africa all her life and one who lived in Europe or the US. Or for that matter a Jamaican or Haitian girl. Just the business of dress, a dashiki vs a tailored suit, is going to be noticed.

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It would probably be considered odd for her to wear either of these traditionally male outfits.

I would think it would be fine, as long as she was 'posh' and Protestant of course. It would probably still be a bigger deal for one of them to marry a Catholic (even though this has been legalized?) or god-forbid a Muslim.

But does anyone honestly care who Harry marries? It seems like he's expected to be more of a wild card, partially due personality differences and partially because he presumably won't be king. Younger prince really is the best job in the world.

 

[Nicola]

Wrong race if you want controversy go for a middle easterner such as a pakistani.

Racism against Muslims is pretty high in some areas of the country.

plenty of respectable and respected South Asian families in the UK of all the major South Asian faiths.

racism towards Muslims is primarily from the lazy,white underclass, who are jealous of immigrants becasue 'dey tuk are jobs'...

other than the loony fringes on both sides of ethnicity it would be a complete none event...

class would be rather more of an issue e.g.some of the snide comments about Carole Middleton having been a 'trolley dolly' ...

 

[GrandpaTanaka]

racism towards Muslims is primarily from the lazy,white underclass, who are jealous of immigrants becasue 'dey tuk are jobs'...

There is plenty of racism towards Muslims from the lazy, black underclass as well.

No question that poorer people tend to be louder about their racism in every Western country, but that doesn't mean the upper classes aren't racist, they just know to shut up about it.

Also, someone said that the British media would never publish something racist about the royal family. I have seen the Sun, and I think that assumption is giving that particular publication waaaaay too much credit.