In a surprise appearance on the 2025 Nexus Global Summit in New York, Prince Harry said that his wife Meghan Markle had experience being the “most trolled person in the world.”
Speaking about ways in which to discourage the misuse of social media, Harry said, “One of the reasons why the digital world was so important to us is because my wife, in 2018, was the most trolled person in the world.”
Markle and Harry were engaged in November 2017, upon which Markle immediately was the recipient of tremendous backlash, the majority of which served as an underhanded way for internet users to express racist and sexist sentiments.
He went on to explain that this is what motivated him and Markle to focus on improving digital communities.
“It wasn’t something that was sexy, it wasn’t something that we were necessarily passionate about, but it became very clear to us very quickly,…