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Prince Harry has opened up about the online hate wife Meghan Markle has faced, calling her “the most trolled person in the world.”
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The Duke of Sussex made a surprise appearance at the 2025 Nexus Global Summit in New York where he spoke about the aim of the couple’s Archewell Foundation to foster community and combat social isolation, both online and offline, the Daily Mail reported.
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“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,” Harry said.
“There was a lived experience, but at no point did we suddenly think, ‘OK, well, let’s take this industry on.’”
Harry detailed how after speaking to a experts, “it became very clear to us very quickly… that for all the work we are collectively doing, and all the progress we are achieving, if the digital world is not done responsibly, it’s going to turn back that progress.”
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He noted: “We started to meet a lot of parents who had lost their kids to social media — the majority through suicide — and that’s when it really started to make sense to us.”
Harry added how people’s “compassion can shrink” as their “lives become harder.”
He urged those in attendance to use their platforms to serve the wider community, telling the crowd: “Whatever you put out there, you get back.”
Harry also vowed that both he and Meghan will “live by the truth,” according to the publication.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend the 2025 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2025 in New York City. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TIME) Photo by Craig Barritt /Getty Images for TIME
Megan began facing public scrutiny soon before she and Harry got engaged in November 2017, and long after their May 2018 wedding.
In 2020, the couple appeared on the Teenage Therapy podcast where the former Suits star discussed how she almost didn’t survive the abuse she endured as “the most trolled person in the entire world — male or female.”
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She detailed: “[For] eight months of that, I wasn’t even visible, I was on maternity leave with the baby. But what was able to be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable, it’s so big you can’t even think what that feels like.”
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And during their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey the following year, Meghan revealed how negative headlines prompted her to contemplate suicide.
“I just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” she shared, explaining that she “didn’t see a solution.”
Meghan added: “I would sit up at night, and I was just like, ‘I don’t understand how all of this is being churned out.’”
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Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties in 2020 amid reported drama with King Charles and Prince William.
That same year, they moved to California where they raise their children, Archie and Lilibet.
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