However you feel about the Royal Family, "empire trinkets" (MBEs, OBEs, etc) and Meghan Markle, the British Royal Family looms large over the Black British experience, particularly because of imperialism, colonialism and this little island telling us all once upon a time that she was the 'Mother Country'.

Join Black Ballad's writers as they unpack all of that – we'll give you a sec to put the kettle on!