I am mixed race and both sides of my family wondered who my babies would take after. Absolutely wasn't racisim. Would the baby have my dark hair or their fathers lighter hair? My hair is straighter than their fathers, so we all wondered what their hair texture would be like.
All my friends of all colours had the same conversations. Regardless of the colour of their partner. Why would mixed couples not have the same conversation.
If someone tells me they heard a 'racist comment' then turns out they didn't, someone else told them about it. And then and the someone and them. Then couldn't even agree on when it happened, no I am not going to believe them. I am going to think that something isn't quite right. Especially, if they say a load of other stuff that isn't and has been twisted to suit their agenda.
Like archie wasn't ever going to be a prince. Harry's children weren't going to be. Due to them not understanding that (which baffles me) they decided to reject any other title. So it was reported they chose not to give him a title, which is true. They claimed he was blocked from having one. The Royal media team wasn't going to report 'they have rejected a title because they believe he is being refused a title of Prince because of the mother's skin colour' or the whole detail of what might happen when Charles becomes king and he might be a Prince or he might not and detailed explanation of how Charles wanted to scale back, long before Meghan ever was on the scene.
I was so happy when they got married. It felt like a massive step forward. I am not a royal fan, but it was important. I even though they made the right decision to leave, in the circumstances.
But they keep trying to drip feed information, because alot of their other things aren't well received.
Personally, I am of the opinion that alot of this is driven by Harry. I think he has told Meghan, half truths, said what he thinks she wants to hear, probably moaned and twisted things not realising how she (as a woman of colour) will interpert things. Then when she has a different take he can't back track.
So, I think, he he told her about the comment about the baby's skin colour, much later than it happened whilst relaying an unrelated disagreement. So she thinks it happened when she was pregnant and during an argument Harry was having. When in reality, it was a small comment about what the baby would like, made months earlier.
And quite frankly, given our media (and social media in general) can be ruthless, I would find it odd if no one has sat Harry or both them down to discuss potential hurtful things that may be said in the media / social media. A comment of 'there will, probably, be speculation in the media about the child's skin colour. Are you both really prepared for these things?'
They keep making huge mistakes and it's turning people off.
Like Harry complaining he didn't get his own wreath. It's not about him. He isn't a working Royal, he isn't a serving solider. How many normal ex soldiers get a personal wreath laid, in their absence, during an official ceremony.
Then they went and laid their own and were spotted by the paparazzi? No one believed that wasn't set up by them. If he wanted a wreath he could have got many people to lay one privately for him at any monument. Why did he want a public one? Laid at an official event.
The fact that he, a millionaire, sat and complained about being cut off when he quit his job, with a straight face was just ridiculous. On the back of a pandemic, where millions have been left with next to nothing. He complained his millions wasn't enough and he shoidn have received more on going support.
Although to be fair, her claim that she didn't know anything about him before they met, was all her and was just ridiculous. And her shock that he bows to the Queen, shows how she really had a very different view to how the Royal family worked, to how it actually does. Not sure if she was just working on assumptions or Harry had misled her into believing they were just a normal family, really.
But, I think they need to shut up. We all know that boon was written with their input and they are making themselves look worse.