Meghan Markle recently shared photos from vacation with Prince Harry and children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. While the photos show the family’s European getaway to Portugal and also a visit to Princess Diana’s birthplace, the photos have also caused a lot of backlash online.
Meghan Markle’s latest family vacation photos have caused an online backlash
Meghan Markle recently took to her Instagram account to share a series of photos from her family vacation with Prince Harry and their children. While many people have made comparisons between the photos and the famous vacation photos of Princess Diana from the 1990s, there are many people who have started to debate how insensitive they are.Many people called the ‘Suits’ actress for making a deeply personal family moment public. It is reported that while at Princess Diana’s childhood home in Althorp, the family of four also visited her final resting place. Markle posted the photos with the caption, “Summer Holiday.” One of the photos shared a glimpse of the family walking through the greenery, with Archie and Prince Harry holding flowers as Lilibet walked closer to her mother.Many people online called out the actress for sharing the specific photo on her account, commenting that it appeared to be from where Princess Diana’s final resting place was. One person commented, that it was “disrespectful, exploitative and gross”, while another person shared that “Harry and the boy both had huge bouquets of flowers – guess what, at Althorp? So #MeghanMarkle actually posted photos of them on the way to #PrincessDiana’s grave.” Wow. How disrespectful, exploitative and gross. What should have been a private and personal family moment he posted on his public influencer platform for the world to see. In the—I’m sure—tons of photos he took at Althorp, he wanted you to know he was at Diana and Harry’s grave.Many other people commented on similar things online, with some questioning how Diana’s brother Charles, who still lives in their ancestral home, allowed a photo like this to be shared online on social media. However, there were some people standing by Markle who shared the photos online, with one person commenting that the haters were blowing the situation out of proportion. Another supporter commented, “They’re not upset because Meghan finally posted the photos. On the contrary, they beg for them, refreshing Instagram every hour of the day for weeks. They are angry because the photos have been leaked for weeks with the false claim that Meghan and the children never made it to the UK.At the time of writing, the Duchess of Sussex has not shared any comments about the backlash.