The glare of public attention has often left Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, on the receiving end of strong opinions.
And Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pushed back at that directly on Friday, criticizing a culture of bullying on social media.
“We have forgotten about our humanity, and that has got to change,” she said, while appearing on a keynote panel at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, focusing on the representation of women in entertainment and the media.
Meghan and Harry have voiced repeated concerns about how negative media attention has affected them, both while they were active members of Britain’s royal family and since they stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the United States.
Meghan said on Friday that she had received the bulk of online abuse while she was pregnant with her children, Archie and Lilibet, and in the months after their births.
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