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   From: markle-fake-news@cnn.com   
      
   Meghan Markle is not the first biracial member of the British   
   royal family, which traces its lineage to at least two queens of   
   African origin, according to a royal expert.   
      
   “All of the British royals have African blood,” said Lady Colin   
   Campbell, a Jamaica-born socialite who has written numerous   
   books on the Windsors, including “People of Color and the   
   Royals,” published in 2019.   
      
   One Black royal was Queen Charlotte, who is the focus of the   
   Netflix series “Bridgerton,” Campbell told The Post. Born in   
   1774, Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a direct   
   descendant of Margarita de Castro Souza, a Portuguese noblewoman   
   who traced her line to Madragana Ben Aloandro, the North African   
   mistress of Portugal’s King Afonso III in the 13th century.   
   Historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom has said the depiction of   
   Charlotte in royal paintings emphasizes her African features.   
      
   In addition to Charlotte, who was married to King George III,   
   Campbell and other historians point to Philippa of Hainault, the   
   wife and adviser to King Edward III. Philippa was of North   
   African Moorish ancestry, born in northern France in 1314.   
      
   “When you take this history into consideration, accusing the   
   royal family of racism is preposterous,” said Campbell, alluding   
   to Markle’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey in which she   
   claimed that she was subjected to poor treatment because of her   
   race and had suicidal thoughts. Markle also said one member of   
   the royal family expressed concerns about her baby’s skin color   
   before the birth of her son, Archie, in May, 2019.   
      
   According to Campbell, there was “constant intermarriage” among   
   both British and European royals who have “proportionally a   
   large percentage of African blood,” she said. And there was   
   little in the way of racial prejudice until the latter part of   
   the 17th century, when Britain’s West Indian colonies   
   increasingly relied on slave labor for the cultivation of sugar   
   cane.   
      
   “When sugar started to become more important than gold to the   
   British community, slaves who worked the fields were   
   dehumanized,” she said.   
      
   It has been debated whether Princess Diana’s family, the   
   Spencers, were among the slave-owning gentry. An 18th-century   
   portrait of ancestor John Spencer depicts him and his son, also   
   named John — the future first Earl Spencer — with a Black man   
   named Caesar Shaw crouching near a dog. Shaw has been described   
   by historians alternately as a slave or a servant. Many Spencers   
   are listed in a database of historic British slaveholders though   
   it’s unclear how closely related they are to Diana’s line.   
      
   Campbell, who has appeared on British celebrity reality shows   
   and wrote one of the first biographies of Princess Diana in 1992   
   (“Diana in Private”), has also written “Meghan and Harry: The   
   Real Story.” She is no fan of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.   
   She called Markle’s recent interview with Winfrey “the cynical   
   ploy on behalf of a greedy woman.”   
      
   “I think Meghan Markle is … a very destructive and divisive   
   operator who is reckless about the damage she does as long as   
   she achieves her objectives, which are fame and fortune,” said   
   Campbell.   
      
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