Prince Harry got candid about the hate his wife, Meghan Markle, has received online during a surprise appearance at the 2025 Nexus Global Summit\u00a0in New York <\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the reasons why the digital world was so important to us is because my wife, in 2018, was the most trolled person in the world,\u201d the Duke of Sussex said while talking about how to combat social isolation online for \u201ca better future for 2025 and beyond.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lived experience,\u201d he added, per the Daily Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n Prince Harry said that Meghan Markle \u201cwas the most trolled person in the world\u201d while speaking at the 2025 Nexus Global Summit in New York. Reza Golestani for NEXUS\/Archewell<\/p>\n The Duke of Sussex brought up the Duke of Sussex while discussing how to combat social isolation online. Reza Golestani for NEXUS\/Archewell<\/p>\n Harry, 40, explained that it became \u201cimportant\u201d for him and Markle, 43, to focus on the \u201cdigital world\u201d through\u00a0the Archewell Foundation<\/a>\u00a0after \u201cmeet[ing] a lot of parents who had lost their kids to social media \u2014 the majority through suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s when it really started to make sense to us,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n The \u201cSpare\u201d author<\/a> shared that people\u2019s \u201ccompassion can shrink\u201d as their\u00a0\u201clives become harder.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the reasons why the digital world was so important to us is because my wife, in 2018, was the most trolled person in the world,\u201d he said. Getty Images for TIME<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a lived experience,\u201d he added. meghan\/Instagram<\/p>\n Markle started to face public scrutiny when she got engaged<\/a> to Harry in November 2017 and married<\/a> the following May.<\/p>\n