Although it would be hard to reach this conclusion from reading any of the thousands of negative articles the couple have generated, when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fell in love, the royal family – and Britain more broadly – was gifted manna from soft-power heaven.
As well as her vast, obvious qualities, Meghan also brought something less obvious: Blackness – a quality that could not have been more historically potent, given the circumstances.
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