Meghan's brother will probably toast the momentous news with a pint of Worker's Ale in the Cedar Tree Saloon, his rowdy local bar in Oregon. Her father, an altogether less gregarious character, will doubtless reflect on it quietly at his beach-house on Mexico's windswept Pacific Coast. For a maternal uncle, who runs his own church in Florida, it will be a time for joyful prayer. The unusual, out-of-the-way places where Meghan Markle's engagement to Prince Harry (inset right) was being celebrated yesterday are a stark reminder of her unconventional background, which I uncovered during many weeks spent researching her family history , writes DAVID JONES. Much has also been made of her heritage, as the mixed-race descendant of plantation working slaves, a subject about which she has spoken movingly and insightfully, describing how she learned to cherish her roots - and overcome prejudice - with careful nurturing from her parents. Her Caucasian father, Thomas (inset left with Meghan as a baby), and African-American mother, Doria (right with Meghan), bought her a set of Barbie dolls with a black mother and white father, and she was advised never to tick boxes on school forms requesting her to declare her ethnicity, but to leave them blank. Pictured centre is Meghan aged 14 with two friends and she is also pictured left with older half-
sister Samantha.
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