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What do we make of Harry and Meghan?

By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

Much of the world is all agog at what it heard from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex this past weekend.

Harry and Meghan dropped plenty of live grenades on the UK’s royal family. I’ll be honest: We aren’t talking much about what they said in our house. Neither my wife and I are “royal watchers,” although I must admit to a certain fascination with what some members of Her Majesty’s family have said and done.

Of all the live ordnance dropped on the royals, the most disturbing — and arguably the most jaw-dropping — were the conversations that allegedly occurred with some members of the family about baby Archie. Some of the royals reportedly expressed some, um, concern that the little guy would be too dark to suit the royal family.

You see, Meghan is a biracial young woman — her mother is African-American and her father is white. Harry and Meghan won’t disclose who among the family spoke to that issue, although Harry has said it wasn’t grandma, the Queen, or grandpa, Prince Philip,

Still, that leaves a wide range of folks who have revealed a terrible secret about the royal family, which is that one or more of them are hideous racists.

As you can expect, that didn’t go over well with either Harry, or especially with Meghan.

The fascination with the British royal family will bubble and boil for a long time. It’s the nature of humankind’s affinity for royalty. I prefer to consider the royals, based on what Harry and Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in that astonishing interview, to be just like too damn many of the rest of us.

I am now going to resume the rest of my own life.