Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's love story removed from Royal Family website

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's love story confirmation has been removed from the Royal Family’s website.

The prince released a statement in 2016 confirming his romance with the former actress and defended his then-girlfriend from racist abuse.

Reportedly, it has since been pulled from the Royal Family website, with the link to the statement not working for users.

Newsweek reported that the statement stopped being accessible sometime in early December.

The last time a working version of it was successfully captured by the internet archive Wayback Machine was on December 3, 2023, with an archive attempt a week later being unsuccessful.

It read, in part: “Meghan Markle has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. Some of this has been very public - 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.

"Some of it has been hidden from the public - the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life.”

It also said that Prince Harry was “worried about Ms Markle's safety and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her”.

The Kensington Palace spokesperson said: "It is not right that a few months into a relationship with him that Ms Markle should be subjected to such a storm.

“He knows commentators will say this is ‘the price she has to pay’ and that ‘this is all part of the game.’ He strongly disagrees. This is not a game - it is her life and his.”

Prince Harry spoke of the statement in his memoir Spare: “We needed a statement out there - within a day we had a draft - strong, precise, angry, honest.”

He wrote: “By the time she landed at Heathrow my statement was everywhere. And changing nothing. The onslaught continued."

He went on to say that it did not stop the abuse Meghan received and even left his father then-Prince Charles and his brother Prince William “furious”.

The Duke said: “In fact, my statement generated a whole new onslaught-from my family. Pa and Willy were furious. They gave me an earful. My statement made them look bad, they both said. ‘Why in hell?’ Because they'd never put out a statement for their girlfriends or wives when they were being harassed.”