Prince Harry made his feelings about Twitter perfectly clear in 2014 while meeting with students in London. The Duke of Sussex was chatting to the “digital media champions” who were busily promoting one of his favorite events, the Invictus Games, when the subject came up (per the Daily Mail). “I really quite hate Twitter,” Harry acknowledged, after being asked whether he would be live-tweeting during the competition.
“I would love to get involved and go on social media and if it was for causes like this I really would,” the prince elaborated. “The issue for myself and my family, put quite simply, is that it’s very hard for me to tweet about the Invictus Games and tweet about something that means a lot to me, whereas I at the same time really quite hate Twitter by the invasion of privacy.”
In particular, Harry took issue with his whereabouts being published and every word and action dissected endlessly by the public. Ironically enough, photos of the royal soon filled Twitter, with many students gushing about how wonderful it was to meet him. As The Sunday Times confirmed (via The Guardian) Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, quit social media entirely after defecting from the royal family, reasoning that they would rather focus their attention on building a life for themselves in the U.S.
The Sussexes reportedly had no plans to re-engage with their millions of followers on Instagram after encountering a huge amount of hate online.
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