If Prince Harry marries Meghan, it’ll be a game changer for black people in Britain

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I’ve already told my friends that if and when Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, we should all be outside Westminster Abbey and put on our best African outfit.

We’ve made it.

I say ‘we’ because even though she’s mixed race, the world still looks at her as black.

You only have to look at the comments under a Daily Mail article about the couple to realise that.

Never in a million years did I think someone in the royal family would be romantically involved with someone whose skin is a darker hue than theirs.

It speaks volumes about how society is changing, albeit slowly. But it’s definitely changing.

The black community could be on the brink of having a quasi-representative among the royals.

We first saw something like this when Emma McQuiston, who is half-English and half-Nigerian, became Lady Weymouth.

Tatler’s front page said ‘At last!’ upon her engagement with her now-husband Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount of Weymouth.