The Royals, Does It Really Matter?

[ouibonjour]

For Heavens sake - does it really matter if families discuss a future babies colour? Isnt it only natural? Find out who leaked the comments and have a go at them! How much did they get paid for the private info? Stop all the fuss - its very detrimentel to the Royals and all  publicity to sell the books!

[jno]

yep, Harry on the right, grandad on the left

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/28/15/39D12D8500000578-0-image-a-11_1477666624170.jpg

[barry1010]

We have mixed race grandchildren and the conversations were the same as with every pregnancy in our family.  

Who will he/she take after?  Much discussion about hair and eye colour, height, nose, freckles, dimples and naturally skin tone. Not racist.

[Ellipsis]

Harry on the right, and his uncle Charles Spencer on the left ...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f2/25/66/f22566bcc2d2f4c7abc2481cd31a04ce.jpg

 

[Lie-in King]

To the OP - "...Does It Really Matter?"

Nope.

[jno]

mmm, sultry!

[Peter Pedant]

same here Barry ( great nephews and nieces) and it is a natural question - for them!

the outrafe seems to be a white social construct fanned ( yes fanned reader) by Meghan

[Peter Pedant]

no blood test because he doesnt want to know if he carries Porphyria - detected in Prince ( aeroplane crash) in the sixties and discussed in the nineties

I DID wonder - Lucy doo-dah series on the royal illnesses ignores this completely whereas I consider it as done and dusted

[jno]

PP, it was I believe Harry who told Oprah he was shocked by the expressions of concern (addressed to him) over their unborn child's colour.

It's one thing for people like Barry with mixed-race grandchildren already; the concerns may sound very different in a family that has been white since they left the Rift Valley.

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Meghan on how Archie’s skin colour had been discussed:

In those months when I was pregnant … we have in tandem the conversation of ‘you won’t be given security,’ ‘not going to be given a title’, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.

The problematic word isn't "dark" ... it's "concerns". Of course, one young woman's concern is another old man's interest.