Meghan Markle and Harry 'won't get privacy' say experts

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Harry and his wife Meghan Markle launched an attack on the Royal Family during their recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, as they claimed they felt they had not been protected from the media by the Firm. During the tell-all, Meghan hit out at the Palace and claimed it had been “perpetuating falsehoods about us” by not addressing inaccurate reports.Harry also said although press photos of him working as a royal gave off the impression that he was happy, “that’s what is expected”, no matter “what’s going on in your personal life”.

He claimed that if a royal were to grant more press access into their private life, they would receive “better” coverage.

The Duke of Sussex has a long history of fighting back against sharing anything about his personal life with the public.

But, during his second tour of Afghanistan, Harry made a surprising comment about balancing his personal and private life to an interviewer.

Although he said “there was a certain amount of privacy that one should expect” when discussing the photographs leaked from his infamous Las Vegas trip, he said: “I don’t believe there is any such thing as a private life anymore.

“I’m not going to sit here and whinge, everyone knows about Twitter and the internet and stuff like that.”

Yet, eight years later, Harry and Meghan have actually made tackling online misinformation one of their priorities in their post-royal life.

Last week, the Duke of Sussex announced that he was now a Commissioner on Information Disorder for the US non-profit Aspen Institute.

In a statement, he said: “The experience of today’s digital world has us inundated with an avalanche of misinformation, affecting our ability as individuals as well as societies to think clearly and truly understand the world we live in.

“It’s my belief that this is a humanitarian issue — and as such, it demands a multi-stakeholder response from advocacy voices, members of the media, academic researchers and both government and civil society leaders.

“I’m eager to join this Aspen Commission and look forward to working on a solution-oriented approach to the information disorder crisis.”

He is one of 15 commissioners on this particular board, and will be working alongside media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s daughter-in-law Kathryn Murdoch.

This is a six-month commission which will study recommendations on how to tackle the current crisis.

Harry has repeatedly expressed his condemnation of the press and social media, criticising the “continual misrepresentations” of himself and his wife since leaving the royal fold.

Even when he was still a working royal, he curtly turned to reporters during his October 2018 tour of Australia and the south Pacific and said: “Thanks for coming, even though you weren’t invited.”

The couple have also launched an attack on social media giants — just this January, the Duke of Sussex warned that “time is running out” for such companies to address the misinformation online.

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Writing for Fast Company magazine, he explained: “It’s hard for me to understand how the platform themselves can eagerly take profit but shun responsibility.”

He also said the treatment from the media led to online “harassment” for the Sussexes.

He explained: “I was really surprised to witness how my story had been told one way, my wife’s story had been told one way, and then our union sparked something that made the telling of that story very different.

“That false narrative became the mothership for all the harassment you’re referring to.

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“It wouldn’t have even begun had our story just been told truthfully.”

Meghan also told Oprah: “I think everyone has a basic right to privacy. Basic. We’re not talking about anything that anybody else wouldn’t expect.”

‘Oprah with Meghan and Harry’ is available on ITV Hub.

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