- Meghan Markle said she was not treated like a Black woman until she moved to the United Kingdom.
- Meghan — who is biracial — said people in the UK made her race and skin color an "issue."
Meghan Markle said she was never treated like a Black woman while living in the US, and it wasn't until she made the move to the UK that people made her race into an "issue."
In Netflix's new "Harry and Meghan" docuseries, which premiered on Netflix Thursday, Markle recalled a memory in which she and her mom — a Black woman — went to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
While the pair was navigating the parking lot and trying to leave after the show, Markle said her mom honked at the car in front of them for taking too long.
She said the woman in the car "turned around and screamed the 'n-word' at my mom." Markle added that her mom was "silent" for the rest of the ride home and that they never spoke of it.
"I'd never in my life heard someone say the 'n-word,'" Markle admitted in episode three of the illuminating docuseries.
"It's very different to be a minority but not be treated as a minority right off the bat," Markle continued.
Markle is biracial and is the daughter of a Black woman and a white man.
"Obviously now people are very aware of my race because they made it such an issue when I went to the UK, but before that, most people didn't treat me like a 'Black woman.'"
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they were stepping back from royal life in January 2020 and have been living in California since March of that year.
Markle has been outspoken in the past about the racism she says she faced at the hands of the royal family — including "concerns and conversations" the family allegedly voiced about how dark her son Archie's skin would be — with Prince Harry saying that racism was a "large part of" why the couple stepped back from royal life.
Buckingham Palace has denied the reports.