Emma McQuiston will be making history when she marries as she is destined to become Britain’s first black marchioness. She is marrying into our most eccentric aristocratic family – her future father-in-law, Alexander Thynn, the seventh Marquess of Bath, is famous for his harem of ‘wifelets’.
The daughter of a Nigerian oil baron says she faces racism and snobbery from the upper classes unwilling to accept her.
‘There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation,’ she told society magazine Tatler.
‘There’s class and then there’s the racial thing. It’s a jungle and I’m going through it and discovering things as I grow up.
‘I’m not super-easily offended but it’s a problem when someone’s making you feel different or separate because of your race. I have never had anything horrible said or happen, but it is something you sense. You can just tell with some people.’
Good on you girl. Keep strong and keep your head on high. One should never let people’s opinion put or keep them down. Be proud of whom you are and if some people want to belittle you or make you feel like an outcast, then that is their burden to carry.
