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    Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain


    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,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > 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
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    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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