Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will go to the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, November 10, to discuss the dangers of social networks for young people, their spokesperson said on Wednesday.
This will be the couple’s first public appearance since the revelations targeting Meghan’s father, accused of possessing child abuse images. It will also be their first public trip abroad since returning to the United Kingdom at the end of August, after six years in the United States.
The youngest son of King Charles III and his wife are due to inaugurate in the morning the “Lost Screen Memorial”, an installation created by Archewell, their foundation. It is made of giant phone screens displaying portraits of children and adolescents whose deaths are linked to social networks. The memorial “is intended to be both a tribute to the victims and a call to action to policy makers, technology companies and society as a whole,” according to the couple’s spokesperson.
“I have been the victim of harassment and attacks on the networks every day for ten years”
Harry and Meghan, who are campaigning on the dangers of social media, will give a speech. During a trip to Australia in April, the Duchess of Sussex said she was herself a “victim of harassment and attacks” on the networks “every day for ten years”. Since their surprise return to the United Kingdom, after years of falling out with the royal family, Harry and Meghan have remained rather discreet. They settled with their two children in the bucolic Cotswolds region, northwest of London.
Prince Harry has made several public engagements alone for charities that he sponsors or supports. They made only one public outing together, in mid-October, in Nottingham, in central England. Meghan said on October 23 that she was “deeply upset” by the accusations of possession of child abuse images targeting her father, Thomas Markle, whom she has not seen for years.
Last week, Philippine police said they were investigating a laptop found with images of child sexual assault at what is believed to be a former residence of Thomas Markle. She said Wednesday that three memory cards and a cell phone given by Thomas Markle’s son contained images of sexual assault on minors. Thomas Markle denies the accusations against him.
