ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 considers major racialized events in Meghan Markle’s life, mainly since her relationship with Prince Harry became public in late 2016. These events illustrate key facets of British systemic racism, including the central white racial frame, its white virtuousness subframe, and its anti-black subframe. Links between the white racial frame and the common male-sexist frame, and the resulting reality of gendered racism, are discussed. In examining the meaning of Meghan Markle, Chapter 2 demonstrates how the dominant white racial frame has always routinely intersected with other major societal frames. Frequently, once a racial frame is in play, concomitant frames and subframes also come into play (e.g., Islamophobia-oriented, colonial-oriented, class-oriented, and gender-oriented framing). In explaining the societal worlds inhabited by the Duchess of Sussex, as a member of the royal family, Chapter 2 suggests that from the first century of British colonialism, such orientations have been faithfully linked to the white racial frame.
