“Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement represents something genuinely different from everything that has gone before,” said Afua Hirsch in The Guardian. (Edward VIII famously abdicated the throne in order to marry the American-born, twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.) Harry’s proposal didn’t come as a surprise given their public courtship, but was nevertheless seen as a dramatic gesture for an institution that does its best to avoid rocking the boat (even if it does not always succeed). And while it’s possible someone fibbed on an application, Meghan is likely to be the first member of the British royal family who is divorced, American and biracial.
Today, the British monarchy is more an idea than anything else, but it is a very powerful - and very old - one. She’s trying to get Harry to focus for literally just one second so she can figure out if his cousin can sit next to his grad school friend and if “vegan-ish” is really a dietary restriction and also should she lose a few pounds or is that just an empty gesture to a patriarchy that has never given her anything in return?Īlso, an estimated 2.8 billion people watched the last British royal wedding, which is close to my headcount give or take a third of the world. My name is also Meghan, and on May 19th, I will also marry my very own prince (not in line for a throne, though he did once make me a grilled cheese at 11 p.m.), so I think I have a pretty good idea of what’s happening in Meghan’s beautiful noggin. She’ll go by the very serious-sounding “Duchess of Sussex,” but she will technically be an actual, real-life princess. On May 19th, Meghan Markle will become a princess.
They are persons but they are supra-personal, carriers of a blood line: at the most basic, they are breeding stock, collections of organs. In looking at royalty we are always looking at what is archaic, what is mysterious by its nature, and my feeling is that it will only ever half-reveal itself…Royal persons are both gods and beasts.
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