• Royal Duchess Meghan Markle is opening up about her experiences as a person of mixed racial heritage.
• The Duchess of Sussex, who is the daughter of an American father and an African mother, has said that she has always felt like she belonged in a “grey area.”

I had to talk to you,” Meghan told Mariah Carey, a mixed-race woman who was in attendance. Naturally, I need to discuss this with you. Thank you for the profound impact you had on my life.

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“Representation matters so much. But when you are a woman and you don’t see a woman who looks like you somewhere in a position of power or influence, or even just on the screen — because we know how influential media is — you came onto the scene, I was like oh, my gosh. Someone… Someone kind of looks like me.”

She continued: “I had read this article about Halle Berry, and they were asking her how she felt being treated as a mixed-race woman in the world.

“And her response was her saying: ‘Well, your experience through the world is how people view you.’

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“So she said because she was darker in colour, she was being treated as a Black woman, not as a mixed woman.

“And I think for us, it’s very different because we’re light-skinned. You’re not treated as a Black woman. You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in between,” admitted Meghan.