Meghan Markle Says World Only ‘Focused’ on Her Race When She Started Dating Prince Harry: ‘Things Really Shifted’

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More revelations. Meghan Markle said that she became more aware of her race when she started dating Prince Harry.The Duchess of Sussex, 41, discussed the reality of being mixed race during a chat with Mariah Carey on the Tuesday, August 30, episode of her “Archetypes” podcast on Spotify. “I think for us, it’s very different because we’re light-skinned,” the Bench author told the Grammy winner, 53. “You’re not treated as a Black woman.

You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in between.”The Suits alum went on to say that she became more aware of her Black heritage when she began her romance with the Duke of Sussex, 37, in 2016.“If there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I started dating my husband,” she told the “Fantasy” crooner. “Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman.

Because up until then, I had been treated like a mixed woman. And things really shifted.”Meghan added that she always looked up to Carey as a child because the pop star had a similar background. “You were so formative for me,” the California native said. “[When] you came onto the scene, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh.

Someone … someone kind of looks like me.'”The former Tig blogger has previously been open about the way her race made her time in the royal family more challenging.