Show news star Dyantha Brooks does not necessarily think it is racist when British royals asked about the skin color of baby Archie. “My parents speculated about that too!”
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s lover, said two and a half years ago in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that the British royal family had asked what skin color their baby Archie would have. Now it has been leaked through a Dutch translation of a British royalty book who allegedly asked that question: King Charles and Princess Kate.
Two colours
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker points this out Show news. “It is of course something that is still – and rightly so – a sensitive subject: discrimination and racism. I think we talked about it once, because of course you have a very beautiful Dutch mother and also a very handsome Aruban father.”
He continues to colleague Dyantha Brooks: “So you are of two colors yourself, but you have a man who is white and you have two half-colored children, but is that something that has happened to you, for example?”
Tinted child
Dyantha says that it doesn’t necessarily have to be strange to talk about it. “That was definitely a topic of conversation. My parents said: ‘Oh, I’m so curious, will it be a tanned child or a blond one with blue eyes?’ That’s what it was about all the time.”
Guido: “But does that have to do with racism?”
Dyantha: “Well, if you ask me, not. That had a lot to do with looking forward to it and then fantasizing about: what will it look like?”
In context
Things may have turned out differently for the British royals, according to Dyantha. “I think so in that respect… Of course you have to hear it in context, but I always think: it is logical for everyone who is pregnant… When a redhead goes with a blonde-haired one, you always have conversations about: how is it going to look like?”
She concludes: “I never thought much about it. I think context is everything in this.”