Prince Harry Echos Meghan Markle’s Claim She Was ‘The Most Trolled Person On Earth’

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Baila Eve ZismanJuly 1, 2025, 10:45 amNews >

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, speaking to a lot of experts, 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. And we can see that with climate change,” Harry explained.

He went on to emphasize that his and Markle’s increased interest in shaping online spaces came after they “Met 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.”

Harry speculated that as people’s “lives become harder,” their “compassion can shrink.”

Harry and Markle have more recently focused their foundation, Archewell, on creating safer, more dynamic online spaces, as well as promoting mental health and well-being.

Markle noted on the Teenage Therapy podcast in 2020, “In 2019, I was the most trolled person in the entire world – male or female.”

She went on, “[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.”

In a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Markle recalled the effect of the extreme and unwarranted online slander she received, revealing the scrutiny was so great some of the headlines made her consider killing herself. “I just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” she remembered. “[I] didn’t see a solution.”