After introducing himself, the "Get Out" and "Judas and the Black Messiah" star said: "I know you're hearing my accent and thinking, 'Oh no, he's not Black, he's British.'"
"Let me reassure you that I am Black. I'm Black and I'm British. Basically, I am what the royal family was worried the baby would look like," Kaluuya continued.
"What?" Winfrey said to Markle. "Who is having that conversation with you? What?"
Markle went on to say that royal family members expressed concerns to Prince Harry about "what that would mean or look like" if their future baby had dark skin. She did not name which royals expressed the concerns, saying: "I think that would be very damaging to them."
Harry also refused to name the family members who expressed the "concerns," though he later told Winfrey that it was neither the Queen nor Prince Philip.
Continuing with his "SNL" monologue, Kaluuya said: "People ask me: 'What's worse, British racism or American racism? Let me put it this way: British racism is so bad, white people left."
"They wanted to be free - free to create their own kind of racism. That's why they invented Australia, South Africa, and Boston," Kaluuya added.
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Later in his monologue, Kaluuya recalled being 'muted' at the Golden Globes
Kaluuya, a Golden Globe winner for best supporting actor for his role in "Judas and the Black Messiah," had some of his audio cut out mistakenly due to a "technical problem" at the February awards show.
In his "SNL" monologue, Kaluuya made light of the blunder.
"I was muted, can you believe that?" Kaluuya said. "I told the best joke of my life and I was muted. I felt like I was in the Sunken Place," he said, referencing his role in the 2017 horror film "Get Out."
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