On 10 November 2026, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited the European Parliament in Brussels for the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial, an installation honouring children and young people who lost their lives after experiencing harm on social media. The memorial features photographs of children and young people whose families have shared their stories.
Hosted by the European Parliament, the exhibition highlights the dangers children and teenagers face online and gives a voice to affected families. The event, attended by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, focused on how children can be better protected online.
The installation features 50 illuminated lightboxes designed to resemble smartphones, each displaying the lock-screen photograph of a child whose life was cut short by online dangers. Each image represents a life deeply loved and missed, as well as a family's call for stronger action to protect children online.
They both look good. But I find it totally disingenuous that they continue to play the quasi working royals role when the King issued a statement to say they are not working royals. I also find it bizarre to walk in to the European Parliament holding hands! I love that couples are affectionate - but this is not the place.
ردحذفAgree 100%
حذفI like that they are walking hand in hand, it shows Harry's protective side. Reporters were shouting questions in that hallway about her father; they shouldn't do that either in a place like that. They're both very courageous stepping out now, especially given the topic of the meeting.
حذفOne might love or hate them, but apparently their faces still sell a lot of newspapers.
I think the Memorial was established by the Sussexes’ foundation Archwell Philanthropies at the European Parliament in Brussels. So it is their right to be there. They are doing good despite the vicious British Press and all the haters. Please inform yourself.
حذفBs. Nothing wrong with what they do or that they are holding hands. Also other royal couples do it in places like this. Stop treating these two different then the other non working royals we see every week out and about doing the same.
حذفI think they attended because the Memorial was established by the Sussexes’ foundation Archwell Philantropies at the European Parliament in Brussels, so it is their right to attend. They are not there as working royals, why would they? Are they not allowed to present themselves in public anymore? Presenting their own foundation?
حذفI also agree with you, except I do not think she looks good. Her coat and trousers swallow up her small frame and I will never be a fan of a "messy bun" unless one is working in the yard or cleaning the house etc.
حذفI fully agree
حذفWell said 👏👏
حذفWhat is their role? They seem to be floundering, not knowing who they are and what they should be doing. They left the UK went to the US and now back in the UK. Were royals, left the royals and now want to be royals. Make up your mind!
حذفService is universal.. I need say no more. Meghan is clearly traumatised and if her husband wants to support her by holding her hand I have no idea why people find it triggering. LRB
حذفAlso agree 100%.
حذفI think at this point the King lets them do whatever they want, he needs to have a good relationship with his son at this time of his life.
حذفThey are probable representing their own foundation Archwell.
The former Duchess of York used to be a goodwill ambassador for the UN even after her divorce, not royal duties.
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What do you think makes them ‘quasi working royals’ as opposed to high profile individuals who are supporting an important cause?
حذفI feel much the same. But that's really just my personal perception, not an objective standard.
حذفIn Brussels people are not that difficult. The European Parliament is nothing more or less than another European, Belgian or Brussels official building. We are used to see photo's in the press or on TV of all kind of people (holding hands or not, ladies who are wearing a black headscarf or not, men and women being black, or brown or white, all kind of nationalities with their own traditions and customs....) who are participating on conferences, on meetings, or who are attending gatherings of all kind and afterwards everybody got stucked in the evening traffic of all these people who wish to return home or to their hotel or to the airport.
حذفBrussels is a little capital in a little country but with countless regional, national, European, international institutions. The population did not wish to have so many institutions and nationalities, in their capital, but nobody asked us what we wanted and it has been growing and growing until it became much too crowded.
In the end one is getting used to all this and one is not going to the capital anymore if it isn't really necessary.
Quasi working royals? Supporting causes! You people are insane! They're right you really are deranged!
حذف16:22 “quasi working royals” Is a useful title for those who chose to step back from working royal roles and have been declared as private citizens but keep showing up at public, advertised events as if they were working royals. An apt title that explains it well.
حذف@16:05 the Archewell Foundation no longer exists, they rolled it away from themselves and there’s a rather inactive entity called Archewell Philanthropies, which looks fairly dodgy if you look into its most recently published accounts (2024) eg you’ll see it gave $10,000,000 to pay 6 organisations/ individuals for unnamed services.
حذفLRB, “service is universal”?
حذفAnon 18.48 Well said, Yes, you are correct. Archewell Foundation does not exist now. I also saw the published accounts of 2024 , the new Archewell Entity , which appears to be
حذفlacklustre in performance I too found it really quite alarming, re: the accounts.
Anon 12:58, they are just working people who happen to be royal. They can't just hide for the rest if their lives.
حذفFashion wise, Megan always look good in black. And I love the earrings!
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Stop making things up. There is nothing abnormal about the accounts. You crazy people need lives!
حذفUnnamed organizations! Good so you can scramble your little brain for insane conspiracies that don't exist.
حذفLots of people were happy to see them.
حذفHe issued a statement saying they weren't working royals and you wondered why they were quasi? You aren't a genius are you. You people say the dumbest things trying to insult people. They held hands!😱🙅✋Stop the presses.
حذفGiving millions to charity is lackluster?🫣
حذفPeople were lined up to my surprise to see them happily. They're supporting a great cause, supporting themselves(As Ever is very successful), other great causes, and Invictus is doing great. They seem happy. Good luck to them and their beautiful children. They get more abuse from the press, members of that family, and people than child predators. It's insane! The hate is real. God bless Jason Arday he got worse than the predators. People are evil.
حذفTo my understanding, they were there not as "working royals" as meant in the King's statement but representing the causes they promote in their present life. As they are still royals by status (and Harry by birth) and they work, that means that in a way they are "working royals" -- they just don't work for the Firm any more, because the Firm forced them out.
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B!! The "firm" certainly did not "force them out". They chose to go. It is so well documented, I am having to giggle at your comment and wonder if you're being facetious!
حذف@Anon 13:39 (-B) Exactly. I came here to say the same thing but you explained it precisely.
حذف- Anon 9:13
They were not forced out. You are making that up in the face of the full story being so fresh it’s not yet history. Let’s at least deal with facts even if we differ on opinions.
حذفAre you being sarcastic B?! I think so. Referring to H and his wife being forced out?! Ha ha.
حذفThey don’t work for the firm because they chose to leave. They were not forced, in fact they created a terrible surprise to the elderly Queen by announcing they were stepping back.
حذفIt is so funny seeing people trying to pretend they were not forced out - their popularity on the Australia tour caused the Cambridges so much angst that the hate campaign in the press supported by some royals started. They had no choice but to go . The lies about them continue in the Press who seem to think that Meghan is responsible for her Father’s behaviour. Thank you B for pointing out the obvious. And to the person who questioned my comment ‘service is universal’ this is a quote from Harry and also reflects what Earl Spencer said at his sisters funeral.. you don’t need to have an HRH to do good in the world and support causes. LRB
حذفThen why did the Queen tell people earlier that year that they were leaving and then upon hearing they took the dogs said definitely not coming back. It was already under discussion because Harry couldn't stop other family members from attacking his wife.
حذفIf they weren't forced out then why were there discussions to were they could go. They were being forced out and left so they could plan their own future instead of have it foisted on them.
حذفWhat a beautiful couple, good for them for holding hands and showing their affection and support for each other as well for a very worthy cause, she is a truly beautiful woman. Rem
ردحذفYes they are.
حذفWas that the same exhibition put up outside the UN in Geneva? Last year? Excellent location but I think hardly anyone showed up to listen? I think this might be the same, now (briefly?) showing in a foyer or room in the Parliament building.
ردحذفYes, it was the same. And to all the haters on this page. Please inform yourselves about the cause of this memorial. Bereaved parents who have lost a child because of Social Media!!!
حذف17:56 there are not haters, there are people with different opinions from yours. Please don’t introduce hate.
حذفYea I think it is the same. I thought they may have retired it given that it didn’t raise much publicity or interest outside the UN. I think there are better ways to raise awareness by better placed organisations.
حذفPlease don't use the word hater 17:56.
حذفAnon 17 56. People who disagree with you are not ‘haters’.(presumably that word means people who hate). I see no sign of any comment that indicates hate. In life you will find that other people do not always agree with you. Get used to it.
حذفReally? All the people who were waiting as they walked in and the families were invited to the first installation earlier this year. Not everyone.
حذفHaters are trolls that abuse people online. Differing opinions are fine but lies and abuse aren't.
حذفThey are not “playing” anything. They are people who are supporting a cause, just like Zara and Mike Tindall do constantly. And many other well known people do ALL THE TIME. The only ones who seem confused about this kind of charity support are the posters above.
ردحذفMeghan looks beautiful and elegant here, albeit quite sad. Harry well dressed and handsome. And given the litany of horrendous behavior by certain others in royal families, it is ridiculous to criticize them for the simply holding hands..
Agree with you Anon 15:04.
حذفJ.
If they are there to support a cause, let the focus be on that, not themselves. The handholding takes away from the professional image.
حذفHear hear 👏👏👏
حذفYou don't have to search too hard on the net to find other working and non working royals holding hands - including King Charles and Camilla.
حذفPity we can't see more of the Duchess of Sussex's outfit.
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حذفI find her poppy particularly disingenuous
ردحذفRidiculous comment
حذفWhy?
حذفWHY?
حذفThey met parents of victims of social media in Brussels and they viewed an exhibition at the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial, established by the Sussexes’ foundation at the European Parliament in Brussels. The memorial honours children whose lives have been lost to online harm! And you are talking about that her poppy is disingeuous???
حذفWhy? Harry is a huge global supporter of injured veterans. Why should his wife not wear a poppy? I mean at this point it feels people will criticise her for breathing. LRB
حذفI don’t have a problem with them holding hands in public. People do it for different reasons- stability, emotional support, etc. But I TOTALLY agree with you that they shouldn’t be acting like royals when they chose NOT to be. They asked to be a normal, average family. If the European Parliament is giving private tours to average people, sign me up! I’d love to stand up in front of a crowd and support causes near to my heart! Otherwise, what are they doing???
ردحذفActing like royals? You people are insane! They're supporting a cause and celebrities and rich people do it all the time!
حذفWhen did they ask to be normal average family? They publicly said they were going to fund them and support their causes in 2020!
حذفThey both look good and look all the insane comments!
حذفSono completamente d’accordo con te
حذف16.28 - good question. They are not working royals, but as the King said: "private residents". (OK clothes)
حذفThey are representing a Memorial that was established by the Sussexes’ foundation Archwell Philantropies. They are not in Brussels as working royals. Who says they are acting like Royals? The vicious British Press! Am I am right? How do you present as Royal anyway? That I would like to know. They have a foundation, they spend money for good causes (please inform yourself about them and particularly about this cause - children who committed suicide because of social media!!!!). And then we will talk again. The parents have been very pleased to work with them.
حذفFor example - Establish a foundation, do good things with the money you are collecting, present and work initiatives (like the dangers of social media to children) that are universal or at least affect people across Europe, than perhaps you will be invited to stand up in front of a crowd of the European Parliament and present your cause. Easy - don't you think?
حذفI am really interested - how do a person or a couple act to be seen as a royal or royals? Please informe me because I really do not know. Is it the clothes, the behaviour, the causes, the language?
حذفIn your opinion they are not allowed to get out und be seen in public life - why? They are representing a very good cause (please inform yourself) established by their foundation. Hm, and nevertheless they are targeted because they are "acting like royals". Please enlighten me!
Shinystuffbluff, I’d stand up with you. What they are doing is trying to look good as do-gooders without the necessary organisational belonging to do so. They chose to leave a very good organisation for being involved in do-gooding, the British Royal Household, and haven’t been able to find another belonging since. Their own attempts at creating successful influential organisations haven’t worked to date, but they still seem to want the roles. But the roles don’t work unless attached to organisations.
حذفWhat has the British Household accomplished? How have they changed the life of fellow Britons? Really? They've done a lot of good for many organizations.
حذفI feel sorry for Meghan. It must be hell having your name dragged through the press because you're associated with someone who becomes known as a criminal. Hell. That said, I wish Harry and Meghan would honour King Charles request to be just private citizens, stay out of the limelight, and if they want to help causes they are passionate for, stop making it about their names and instead get on with channelling their desire to do good into effective organizations. Quietly. This would eventually give them a chance to win back the public affection and perhaps a chance to restore the relationships broken through seeking fame by selling stories that should never have been made public.
ردحذفThey caused their own troubles and continue to do so…no sympathy at all for them.
حذفAll sort of private individuals attend functions they are invited to. The fact that the public likes to say acting like a royal, and the photographers want the photo, does not mean they do. So your saying going to a horse event as a royal,is more important than this?
حذفFunny other royal family members tell stories to the press and that's ignored but Meghan and Harry correcting lies publicly is a problem.
حذفThey didn't lie on themselves to the press.
حذفOh get over it! Your sad people are seething that people want to meet them and work with them. Get a life.
حذفCharles can go touch grass! Prince Harry made his own name through supporting veterans, Sentable, and children charities. He didn't.
حذفThey didn't sell stories! A lie! They corrected lies the royal family told about them. The people that don't like them are ignorant and miserable. They can go touch grass too.
حذفRelationships with people who lie on you and your wife and wish you harm aren't worth having.
حذفThe royal family started this smear campaign so I have sympathy for them but none for the miserable souls that spew hatred on social media.
حذف4:51 Harry did not make his own name. He was born famous. Without that, we wouldn’t know his name.
حذفI can't understand how people expect them to be anything other then them sleves in order to make a group of people (who have cut them off and made it clear to the world that they are not welcome or part of the family), happy? The royal family have done zero for these people and they continue to live their best life and yet the public is incredibly mean to them and particularly the American mixed race woman. It's really sad and pathtic at this point to keep harboring these prejudice and then claim that Charles and Will and Kate are right in treating Harry this way. They should be ashamed and so should the public who continue to harrass them.
ردحذفHeck 16:58, did you watch the Oprah interview or read Harry’s book? There really is a basis for the upset against this couple who have made sensationally poor decisions with respect to how they have treated the royal family.
حذفWith all due respect 16:58, Harry and Meghan chose to leave and flung a lot of garbage at the royal family. What do you expect the royal family to do for such a pair?
حذفTo be fair 16:58, "the royal family have done zero for these people" is only because "these people" left and earned money from criticising the royal family. It has been a pretty stinky set of decisions by "these people". This is why people are bewildered by them continuing to act as royals. It's not a prejudice, it's an assessment based on what has actually happened.
حذفSome supporters of the British crown cannot cope with someone from within the institution telling a few home truths.
حذفI agree, I think the half in half out would have been perfect for this couple, not being controlled but courtier. Desperation to keep the archaic monarchy staus quo may be more harmful that by being a family first.
حذفThey defended themselves from attacks from those in the family and working for members in the family. I would have as well. The family and the press is the problem.
حذفAct as royals? Support causes. Please. The royal family has been throwing garbage at the Sussexes since 2018 they only asked that they stop.
حذفGood luck to her. I hope she's doing well. I hope the others do their job and the UK press gets Levenson 2.
ردحذفHarry and Meghan do exactly what other well known people and non working royals. Let them support good causes just like anyone else. If you have a problem with it scroll by stories about them. This stupid criticism is getting old and unfortunately it says more about the people writing them then the couple. And they asked to be normal...give me strength...Saying this tell us you believed the English tabloids agenda.
ردحذفThank you.
حذفIt's not a "stupid criticism". It's often a thoughtful one. People are concerned about Harry and Meghan turning up looking as if they represent the crown when they do not. They walk in using their titles, this is the problem. If they came in as Harry Sussex and Meghan Markle, individuals with social concern, then they wouldn't receive the worried criticism.
حذفAnon 20.37 Harry is the son of the King and he has titles which he is entitled to use. If you don’t like it that is your choice, but you don’t have the right to tell them not to use their titles.
حذفIt is stupid. They were invited not members of the royal family. They're married. Why would he be Harry Sussex and she be Meghan Markle? You people tell on yourselves.
حذفFinally a sensible comment! Absolutely true!
حذف20:37 Guafb non working royals from all over Europe do exactly the same every year without a mean comment ergo we see what this nonsense is all about.
حذفMeghan looks great. Feel sorry for what she's going through. Can't be easy. The irony is for years she has been attacked without being able to defend herself, but do we see one excuse from the attackers? Nope, they just find new ways to attack her.
ردحذفShe usually dresses very nicely and is very supportive of Harry
حذفQuel superbe couple que j'aime voir quand il se tient par la main - Belle photo du profil de Meghan ; ses boucles d'oreilles me plaisent beaucoup dans ce style moderne !
ردحذفTo all the haters of Meghan on this page (because she and Harry are supporting causes to their heart, even as they are not working royals anymore) ...
ردحذفThey met parents of victims of social media in Brussels and they viewed an exhibition at the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial, established by the Sussexes’ foundation at the European Parliament in Brussels. The memorial honours children and families whose lives have been lost to online harm!!!
18:13 there are no haters here. There are people with opinions different from yours. Please don’t invoke hate. I come here to relax and look at some photos.
حذفPeople with different opinions from yours are not haters. What an ugly word.
حذفOw yes there are haters… see al the reactions
حذفBunch of social media trolls on here.
حذفDifferent opinions? Yes. Abuse, harassment, and needless insults? No. There's a difference and too many of you don't care.
حذفCompletely agree - some people are working overtime trying to justify why H&M should hide away and pretend they don’t exist. How dare they use the titles Harry has as a birthright and they were given at marriage? How dare they hold hands? How dare they support good causes. And why are they photographed… clickbait, people who like them and people who hate them click read and comment - just look at the number of comments on this post to prove my point . Are they irrelevant? Clearly not? And therein lies the problem. The royals and supporters want them to vanish, and they keep rising up. Roll on Invictus.
حذفQuel superbe couple que j'aime voir quand il se tient par la main - Belle photo du profil de Meghan ; ses boucles d'oreilles me plaisent beaucoup dans ce style moderne !
ردحذف@13:39- get your facts straight, they were not 'forced out'.
ردحذف@12:58 & 16:28- I thought the same, can any individual speak there, if democracy prevailed perhaps but doubt it! If she pulled out of speaking,why go? Oh, I course, publicity.
Woman accompanies husband! Oh no!
حذفWhere is Meghan's poppy?
ردحذفShe’s not British and probably doesn’t know the significance.
حذفIt might be the little pin she's wearing on the left side of her coat. I could be wrong.
حذفAnyone can wear a poppy, it is a symbol of remembrance in the commonwealth. The proceeds of the sales are used for veterans.
حذفHer husband is British and she definitely knows the significance.
حذفThis is why often I don't read the comments and just look at the pictures. People are damned if they do, and damned if they don't. There is NOTHING wrong with doing good works - and we don't get to choose our parents, that's a lottery.
ردحذفExactly!
حذفLook at how many!
حذف@18:59- it is there but so small you need a magnifying glass to see it!
ردحذفI just heard that Harry's speech to parliament about the dangers of online apps including social media apps and AI was parsed by an AI detection tool, which said 60+% was AI-generated. This is one of the dangers of Harry and Meghan operating in "wannabe royal" roles when they are not. Better for them now to find some well-established groups, UN-related or whatever, could be big and excellently well known or smaller and grass roots, and to work from within on where their passions lie, while being held accountable and also helped towards excellence in their work. Flying solo as they do, yet speaking as if they are royal or represent the UK, is fraught with danger. Hence the request of the King.
ردحذفHarry was invited as an individual, not to represent his father the king. Leave the king to visiting within his country
حذفYour bigoted minds are frought. He and Meghan were invited as themselves. Did anyone else in that family get an invite? No!
حذفI actually don’t think they were invited. Their office set up the opportunity for them to do it.
حذفShe was brave to turn up I think, after the rotten news about her father and the likelihood of questions from the media invited to this event. But I think a speech about protecting children on the internet is a difficult subject to hear from them, as she uses the kids' images frequently in her own social media. I don't know what their expertise is in this field and am sure there are better qualified people they could hire to speak on their behalf. I heard that the speech was substantially AI generated (put through the highly regarded Pangram), which indicates to me they don't really have the expertise themselves to write a good speech, nor the team around them to vet its quality and fact check it.
ردحذفYou feel better?! Trying to insult and can't do that right. We haven't seen those children since they were 2 or 3. Many people who have shown their children's faces still advocate for safety online. This is about children and teens that lost their lives in part because of abuse on social media.
حذفDear Sweet 4:34, Meghan frequently posts pictures of her kids. I wasn’t trying to insult, am still not trying to insult, but working with the facts.
حذفI always appreciate a well tied belt!
ردحذفLowri.
The black colour is fine, maybe due to the recent solemn occasion of the 11th NOV possibly or maybe not.
ردحذفI do find, however, that this outfit is overwhelming her frame. It appears bulky and large.
I love this couple. Honest about the firm, tabloids, Kate etc…. And both look very good!
ردحذفthey are private citizens
ردحذفThis time I cannot see any issue in them attending this event. As mentioned above it appears to be connected to previous charity work. They are not, however, as press reports had it, ‘addressing the European parliament’ but attending a meeting at the parliament.
ردحذفAs toappearance, Meghan suits her hair in this low chignon style but her outfit is so dark it’s difficult to see it to comment on it.
I do worry about the apologists who moved from calling those who disagree with their opinion firstly “haters” and then moving on to “insane”. We should be able to criticise or comment without being insulted,
Yes Annie, nothing brings out this meanness like a Meghan post. Her supporters seem to think defending her with meanness is a good idea. It gets really ugly. Very weird.
حذفMeghan is beautiful as always but looks so sad and fragile. Good to see Harry supporting her, they are a great couple. I wish them the best.
ردحذفOver 90 comments! Good heavens! They look good and people were excited to see them. Glad to see she's still going. Hopefully her father's victims will get justice. All though late.
ردحذف@ "Over 90 comments" and more - yes, with absolutely minus value as content, this ridiculous engagement pro and contra this woman who lives off of her harming the institution of the British Monarchy. But at least good for Helen, the more clicks, the more advertisers, the more income for her, the more pics for us.
حذفNice to see Megan brought back her Sentaller coat which she owned before she met Harry. I think their Coates are excellent quality and Megan wearing hers after more than a decade after buying this coat is proof of that
ردحذفHusband gives speech about protecting children from abuse - how many became vulnerable during the 7years she did not act upon information received. It appears not even curious enough to question it's validity.
ردحذفWowsers. Why is there so much venom in Meghan’s supporters? I notice that people who have followed the facts about Meghan and Harry and state these and their opinions fairly and clearly get called haters, insane, and worse. Whereas those spouting the abusive language think they are doing the honourable thing?
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