{"id":177592,"date":"2025-06-12T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177592\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:37:09","slug":"sussex-ally-hits-out-at-ridiculous-lies-about-meghan-markle-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177592\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex ally hits out at &#8216;ridiculous lies&#8217; about Meghan Markle | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the Duchess of Sussex has slammed &#8220;ridiculous lies&#8221; surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> being shared on social media. Christopher Bouzy said this has &#8220;cascaded into a full-blown harassment campaign against Meghan and her family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bouzy and his social media analysis company Bot Sentinel have been investigating online trolling of Meghan by a group of social media accounts. Mr Bouzy, who featured in the royal couple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> documentary series, said: &#8220;We cannot ignore the real-world impact that this kind of sustained conspiracy harassment has. Imagine, for a moment, what it would feel like to have some of the happiest and most vulnerable moments of your life turned into ammunition for hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also addressed trolling and conspiracy theories after the Duchess shared a video of her dancing while heavily pregnant with Princess Lilibet in 2021.The social media analyst told Newsweek: &#8220;Every maternity dress and every baby video becomes &#8216;evidence&#8217; for strangers obsessively trying to prove your pregnancies were a sham. It is sickening and cruel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW THE EXPRESS BELOW FOR LIVE ROYAL UPDATES&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A friend of the Duchess of Sussex has slammed &#8220;ridiculous lies&#8221; surrounding Meghan Markle being shared on social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[8009,20412,40644,8010,1281,1487,8003,1488,5105,7710,519,1597,1277,1598,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-177592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-harry-and-meghan","9":"tag-harry-and-meghan-latest","10":"tag-harry-and-meghan-latest-news","11":"tag-harry-and-meghan-news","12":"tag-meghan-markle","13":"tag-meghan-markle-latest","14":"tag-meghan-markle-latest-news","15":"tag-meghan-markle-news","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royal-family-latest","20":"tag-royal-family-live","21":"tag-royal-family-news","22":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668781134291168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}