Meghan Markle's Legoland Figure Criticized for Light Skin Tone in Royal Wedding Exhibit

It's a fate that usually befalls Beyoncé, but now it's happened to Meghan Markle as well. 
 

In Legoland Windsor Resort's new royal wedding exhibit, TMZ reported Thursday, the royal-to-be's Lego skin tone appears to be far too light.

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© Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images As pictures of the exhibit show, Markle, who is biracial (her mother is black and her father is white), appears to have been given the same skin tone in the exhibition as the figurine of Prince Harry, who is not only white, but also very fair-skinned. Almost immediately after the reveal, the people of Twitter responded to the controversial figurine.

It's not clear whether the whitewashing was intentional or not, but it's definitely a bad situation — especially when Markle has talked about having her skin airbrushed and whitewashed during photo shoots in the past.

In response, TMZ reported, the theme-park company explained that its Legos were too limited to accurately represent the future Duchess. "Our small Legoland figures are not detailed representations of any of the characters and are all built using a limited range of [primary] brick tones," reads a statement from Legoland to TMZ.

Interestingly, as TMZ notes, Legoland seemingly had no trouble finding darker-toned Legos (and in two distinct shades, no less) for the figurines of Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, and Mel B, aka Scary Spice.

Legoland's apparent screwup (and previous questionable wax figure depictions of Beyoncé), naturally, have made us worried for Markle's upcoming Madame Tussaud's exhibit. Thankfully, pictures of the wax Meghan Markle appear to do the real-life Suits actor justice. In fact, it's Prince Harry's figurine that looks slightly...off.