Before the royal titles, world headlines, and millions of fans, she was just a little girl warming up microwave dinners and wondering where exactly she fit in.

Born to a Black mother and a white father in Los Angeles, this girl didn’t grow up feeling like a Hollywood story in the making. In fact, she often felt like she didn’t belong anywhere — not in school cliques, not in beauty standards, not even in strangers’ assumptions about her own family.

“My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. Continues…