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Legoland’s royal wedding isn’t quite right
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By Mark Shanahan
Globe Staff

In advance of the May 19 royal wedding, Legoland has assembled a replica of the historic castle where the couple will be wed. But it’s the Lego versions of Prince Harry and princess-to-be Meghan Markle that caught our eye.

Curiously, Harry’s ginger hair is captured perfectly with an orange Lego, but Markle’s skin tone is all wrong. Harry’s betrothed is biracial — her mother is black, her father is white — but you wouldn’t know it looking at Lego’s version of Markle. She’s the same color as the prince.

The intricate wedding scene, unveiled last week at Legoland Windsor, took 592 hours — and 39,960 toy bricks — for a team of eight Lego model makers to complete. There are Lego lookalikes of a few of the wedding guests, including the Spice Girls. In the case of Mel B, who’s black, Lego used a brown Lego.

We’ve asked Lego about Markle’s skin tone, but haven’t heard back.