A year into my stint as Fortune's commentary editor, I never expected that of all the things I’d look back on, royal news would be top of mind. Yet here I am, and here we are, with more drama between the Windsors and the Sussexes. But we all need to pay attention: This is a major business story, a major race relations story, and a major Transatlantic Alliance story.
While the American public largely viewed the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's new Netflix docuseries through the lens of race, many British people roundly rejected the accusations of racism that have been leveled against the royal family. Both sides are partially right—and the ways they’re both wrong reveal the cracks in the “special relationship.” As a recently naturalized Egyptian-British public opinion expert, whose job mainly consists of editing op-eds by America's entrepreneurs, academics, and top business leaders, I’m here to shed light on what is getting lost in translation.
