Meghan Markle's ascension into the Royal family and subsequent exit caused a media flurry at the same time as sparking conversations about race, royalty, and representation. Markle's public persona as biracial locates her at the nexus of racial and class politics. We analyze her self-definition and presentation in contrast to her reception by media outlets and the public and present the biracial identity as both transgressive and limited. We question the concepts of race and royalty as fixed categories and explore how biracial identity offers a possibility for an ambiguous middleground. In this article, we consider how Markle's biraciality is contextualized within contemporary portrayals of black and multiracial individuals in the media. We analyze popular media representations of Markle to reveal the significance of the discursive debate over her public identity. We argue that Markle's biraciality is a demonstration of her agency in shaping the public perception of her racial identity that challenges biological constructions of race. At the same time, her inability to transcend racial classification reveals the limitations of an individual's ability to control and define their public persona.

梅根·马克尔（Meghan Markle）升入王室并随后退出，在引发有关种族，皇室和代表制的对话的同时，引起了媒体的关注。马克尔的混血儿公共角色使她处于种族政治和阶级政治的联系中。与媒体和公众对她的定义相反，我们分析了她的自我定义和表现方式，并提出了混血儿身份既具有侵略性又具有局限性。我们质疑种族和皇室作为固定类别的概念，并探讨混血儿身份如何为模棱两可的中间立场提供可能性。在本文中，我们考虑在媒体上黑人和多种族个人的当代写照中如何将马克尔的两种人种背景化。我们分析了Markle的流行媒体代表，以揭示有关她的公共身份的辩论性辩论的重要性。我们认为，马克尔的混血儿身份是她在塑造公众对其种族身份的观念的过程中所表现出来的，这对种族的生物建构提出了挑战。同时，她无法超越种族分类，这揭示了个人控制和定义其公共角色的能力的局限性。