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Prince Harry got candid about the hate his wife, Meghan Markle, has received online during a surprise appearance at the 2025 Nexus Global Summit in New York
“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,” the Duke of Sussex said while talking about how to combat social isolation online for “a better future for 2025 and beyond.”
“There was a lived experience,” he added, per the Daily Mail.
Harry, 40, explained that it became “important” for him and Markle, 43, to focus on the “digital world” through the Archewell Foundation after “meet[ing] a lot of parents who had lost their kids to social media — the majority through suicide.”
“That’s when it really started to make sense to us,” he continued.
The “Spare” author shared that people’s “compassion can shrink” as their “lives become harder.”
“I would sit up at night, and I was just like, ‘I don’t understand how all of this is being churned out,’” Markle added.
The Duchess of Sussex and Harry stepped down from their royal duties in 2020 amid drama with several members of the royal family.
They then relocated to Montecito, Calif., where they live with their kids: Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
