Colour no issue as it’s a boy, Bangladeshi matchmaker says on royal family controversy

A Bangladeshi matchmaker kicked up furious debate after she said she did not agree with the British royal family's concern about the skin colour of Meghan Markle and her less famous husband's son.

Shimul apa, a top matchmaker in the country, said the concerns about the skin colour of the baby were valid, but they were blown out of proportion as the baby was a boy.

"The baby is a prince, not a princess. So I am not sure how valid the concerns about his skin colour are. Unless the royal family are racists, which they certainly aren't considering their history of equal oppression of all colours of people," she said.

"I am more surprised at how surprised people were to learn about the British monarchy's aversion to all other colours, especially when the astonishment came from South Asians. We should learn to be more grateful to them; remember the trains and the culture they gave us?"

When asked if it was the colonial past that had inflicted colourism in South Asian societies, Shimul disagreed. "Not really. Look at some of the deities in our cultures. They predate the European colonist, when there were other colonists. We have always had a fascination with being better and the colour of your skin was one way to do so," she said.

Shimul also pointed out that no one cared about the skin colour of men that much. "A lot of brands have dropped 'fairness' from their product range for women, but the word does stay around for men. It's because men don't really care about their colour, but the colour of women. Like most things, they don't care when it has to do with them, but only the fairer sex. Sorry, I said fairer sex," she said.

Shimul said she believed Markle was a home-wrecker who had completely hypnotised her lesser known husband. "I think Piers Morgan and Ben Shapiro are right. These both wise men, with no shared traits, agree that Markle is a liar and so do I."