Last week, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, the runaway royals sat on Oprah Winfrey’s couch to spill the beans, their fairytale story when Harry met Meghan captured the imagination of millions of people worldwide. CBS aired it in America on Sunday, and the next day, aired in the United Kingdom. The royal couple’s long-waited two-hour interview is a story of runaway, escaping racism inside the monarchy family. Karl Marx once said, “History repeats itself first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” The history of run-away slaves is complex, deep, and troubling. They reported that over 100,000 slaves escaped the harsh racism in America. They risked their lives avoiding armed racist militia, and hostile terrains and communities; they walked, ran, hid for months and years, swam, crossed rivers and lakes, and even some even mailed themselves to safety. They disguised, they plotted, they lied, they faked reinvented themselves to freedom. They left their families, children, and loved ones behind, not sure if they would ever see them again. Meghan and Prince Harry the runaway couple didn’t have to go to that great length to escape to their freedom from the racism in Buckingham Palace and the racist kingdom. Their escape didn’t end up as tragically as the Prince’s mother another royal runaway.
