Pramaggiore, Maria and Kerrigan, Páraic (2021) Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain. Feminist Media Studies. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1468-0777

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Abstract

Focusing on mainstream and tabloid news reporting and ancillary texts, this article analyses the media presentation of Meghan Markle’s intersectional identities through a rhetoric of the feuding famous family. We argue that the media discourse centred on family conflict and domestic drama used to characterise Markle’s position as a royal during the Brexit era both surfaces and suppresses the significance of her existential challenge to the normative racial, class, national and gendered attributes associated with British royalty. That discourse also obfuscates and trivializes the power struggle over the significant economic capital and political “soft power” associated with the British Royal Family brand

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: : Maria Pramaggiore & Páraic Kerrigan (2021): Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1928258
Keywords:	Meghan Markle; British Royal Family; News Narratives; Race; Gender; Feuding Families
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	16690
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928258
Depositing User:	Maria Pramaggiore
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2022 12:06
Journal or Publication Title:	Feminist Media Studies
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis online
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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