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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Half black and half white

2015
U.S.

Markle is descended on her mother's side from enslaved Africans, and on her father's side from European settlers. She described her heritage in a 2015 essay for Elle magazine: "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white... While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman.".


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