The Windsor Wall

Harry and Meghan share their escape plan with Oprah.

A curve of brick along a busy road. Too high. I can’t get over. But I can imagine the kids on the other side. Charles. Anne. Prince and princess. I’d like to to meet them. We’re neighbors. Neighbors in that I live not so far away. But it’s an unreachable faraway place, on the other side of the wall, Buckingham Palace, guards, state dinners, prime ministers, kids playing, maybe finding secret places like all kids do.

I run my hand along the wall as I walk. Why won’t they come out to play?

Sometimes I think the royal family is like Days of Our Lives. A long running soap opera. Melodrama, sex, scandal. I ride my bike past these Royal lives behind these Royal walls. Margaret in Kensington Palace. The Queen Mother in Clarence House. These invisible neighbors.

And then later, Diana in Kensington Palace, the boys, the lovers.

It’s been 120 years of Windsors. The royal bloodline protected. Like breeding horses or corgis.

“I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that there is a possibility — just a possibility, mind you — that this medieval selective breeding program might be racist.” Stephen Colbert

Meghan Markle sits down with Oprah and hints at racism in the royal family…