Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, has paid tribute to George Floyd on Thursday as protests over his death in police custody sweep the United States of America.
She also expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I realized the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing because George Floyd’s life mattered,” Markle, whose mother is biracial, said in a videotaped message to new graduates from her alma mater in Los Angeles, Immaculate Heart High School.
Markle, whose father is white and mother is black, stated the names of other African Americans killed by police, such as Breonna Taylor, a medical worker shot in her apartment in March in Louisville, Kentucky, and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot while playing with a toy gun in 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Their lives mattered, 38-year-old Markle said, “and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know.”
Markle and the prince now live in Malibu.
