{"id":52591,"date":"2024-05-29T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=253363"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T08:42:43","slug":"prince-harry-meghan-markle-removed-royal-website","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-removed-royal-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Family Quietly Delete Prince Harry And Meghan Markle From Its Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253364\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253364\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2151923952-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"prince-harry-meghan-markle-removed-royal-website\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry (L), Duke of Sussex, and Britain&#8217;s Meghan Markle(R), Duchess of Sussex, look on as they attend a Sit Out at the Nigerian Defence Headquarters in Abuja on May 11, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as part of celebrations of Invictus Games anniversary. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON \/ AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 9.6pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">Prince Harry\u2019s 2016 impassioned statement where he denounced the British press for its treatment of his then-new girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has reportedly been quietly deleted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Family website<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 9.6pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">For more than seven years, the now-famous, lengthy and strongly-worded statement was recorded on the royal.uk site. While it is reportedly traceable through the site\u2019s search engine, the link itself is broken, say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/royals-delete-prince-harry-statement-king-charles-furious-racism-1904110\" target=\"_blank\">multiple sources<\/a>. (This editor couldn\u2019t find it at all. What is top and centre is the January 2020 statement announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/meghan-markle-oprah-interview\/\">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s decision to step back<\/a> as senior members of the Royal Family.)<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253366\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253366\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2151923812-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"prince-harry-meghan-markle-removed-royal-website\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britain&#8217;s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, looks on as she attends a Sit Out with Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry (unseen), Duke of Sussex, at the Nigerian Defence Headquarters in Abuja on May 11, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as part of celebrations of Invictus Games anniversary. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON \/ AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">&#8220;The past week has seen a line crossed,&#8221; wrote <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">Kensington communications secretary Jason Knauf at the time. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">&#8220;[Prince Harry&#8217;s] girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">&#8220;Some of this has been very public\u2014the 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">&#8220;Some of it has been hidden from the public\u2014the 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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_253368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253368\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253368\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2151727911-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"prince-harry-meghan-markle-removed-royal-website\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry (R), Duke of Sussex, and Britain&#8217;s Meghan (L), Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Lightway Academy in Abuja on May 10, 2024 as they visit Nigeria as part of celebrations of Invictus Games anniversary. (Photo by Kola SULAIMON \/ AFP) (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 9.6pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">The decision to remove, or archive, the 2016 statement is a sad one. It was a major moment in the Prince\u2019s life\u2014by defending the racial abuse hurled toward the American actor, he was officially cementing his at-the-time rumoured relationship with her. Its removal\/archival also cements the fractured relationship between the Palace and the couple, which seemingly gathered speed after the Prince Harry and Markle&#8217;s very royal-looking recent tour of Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\">\u201cWe needed a statement out there\u2014within a day we had a draft,\u201d Prince Harry recalled in his 2023 memoir <i><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/prince-harry-on-james-hewitt-father-rumour-spare\/\">Spare<\/a>.<\/i> \u201cStrong, precise, angry, honest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #232a31;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/first-pictures-video-meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-royal-wedding\/\">Prince Harry and Markle married on May 19 2018 at Windsor Castle.<\/a> They left the Palace for a life in California 18 months later. The couple are in the news at the moment, namely for their <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-big-move-archie-lilibet\/\">decision to move Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 2<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":52592,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[36,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Royal Family Delete Prince Harry And Meghan Markle From Site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prince Harry\u2019s 2016 denouncement of the British press for its treatment of Meghan Markle, has been archived from the Royal Family website.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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