A meeting held on Monday marked the first face-to-face talks with Harry since he and Meghan unveiled the controversial plan to step back from their royal roles.
“My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family,″ the queen said in a statement. “Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.″
Not wanting history to repeat itself is exactly the reason the Prince himself—not Markle—has been very vocal about the way the media has attacked his wife since the very beginning of their relationship. In November 2016, it was Harry who broke royal protocol and released a statement confirming that the British press had “crossed a line”—that “his girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment” which included “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.”
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