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British White Supremacy and Classism Attack Royal Newborn Lilibet
Angry White Brits need to suck it up. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter Lilibet is in a class of her own.
When I heard the name of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s newest addition to their family, like most White British people, I fell all the way out.
Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
I was giddy. In contrast, many White Britons were seething and considered it audacious of the duke and duchess of Sussex to name their daughter after Prince Harry’s mother, the late Princess Diana, and his grandmother, Her Majesty the Queen.
This is in part based on British White supremacy and its byproduct of anti-Black racism. In the U.K., it manifests itself in the idea that baby Lilibet’s Black heritage delegitimizes her ancestral rights to claim to any part of her royal identity. This includes her bearing the names of her grandmother and great-grandmother.
This rebuke of Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor does not change the facts. She is the queen’s 11th great-grandchild and younger sister to Archie, the duke and duchess of Sussex’s first child, who is now two years old.
