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“Racism in the UK takes a different form than it does in the United States, but there is no mistaking its existence and how engrained it is. A major theme of racism in the UK centers on the question of who is authentically “British.â€� It can come through in subtle acts of bias, micro-aggressions such as the Palace staffer who told the biracial co-author of this book, “I never expected you to speak the way you do,â€� or the Daily Mail headline, “Memo to Meghan: We Brits Prefer True Royalty to Fashion Royalty.â€� While their columnist was criticizing Meghan for her Vogue editorials, there was another way to read it, and that was that to be British meant to be born and bred in the UK—and be white.”
― Omid Scobie, Finding Freedom: Harry, Meghan, and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

“Meghan came in and did the work, but she wasn’t in awe of her surroundings. It was like taking on a new job, one that came as a prerequisite with her marriage to the person she was in love with,â€� said a close friend of the duchess. “She took it seriously, but the fact she wasn’t saying, ‘Wow, this is the greatest thing on earthâ€� made people feel like she wasn’t grateful, that she didn’t deserve what she had.â€� To some at the Palace, here was a woman of color who was allowed into an entitled, exceedingly white space, so how dare she not show an abundance of gratitude. The fact that later she would choose to step away from it, essentially rejecting the hallowed space she was “luckyâ€� enough to have entered, emerged as the sore point for many.”
― Omid Scobie, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival