Royal family quietly deletes Prince Harry’s 2016 statement confirming Meghan Markle romance

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Newsweek reported May 24 that the statement — which was issued against the British press for the “abuse and harassment” that Markle started receiving at the time — stopped being accessible sometime between Dec.

3 and Dec. 10, 2023. For seven years, the message lived on the royal family’s official website, but the link has not been active since the end of last year.

The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. In November 2016, Harry, now 39, confirmed he was dating the then-actress, now 42, in a statement that was released by former Kensington Palace communications secretary Jason Knauf after the romance was made public by the press. “His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment,” the statement read. “Some of this has been very public — the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.”The statement continued: “Some of it has been hidden from the public — the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.”“Prince Harry is worried about Ms.

Markle’s safety and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her,” the Duke of Sussex’s spokesperson also said.“It is not right that a few months into a relationship with him that Ms.