Prince Harry has addressed rumors that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, could be headed toward divorce, as both have been spotted attending events separately lately.
The 40-year-old royal heir discussed the headlines during a Wednesday appearance at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit.
“There’s articles left and right about, you know, ‘Why are you doing independent events? Why aren’t you doing them together?’” DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin said, per E! News. “Is that a good thing for you, in a way, that there’s so much interest in you?”
The Duke of Sussex said the media’s obsession with the couple is “definitely not a good thing.”
“Apparently we’ve bought or moved house 10, 12 times. We’ve apparently divorced maybe 10, 12 times as well. So, it’s just like, what?” Prince Harry responded.
“It’s hard to keep up with, but that’s why you just sort of ignore it,” he went on. “The people I feel most sorry about are the trolls. Their hopes are just built and built, and it’s like, ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,’ and then it doesn’t happen. So I feel sorry for them. Genuinely, I do.”
The couple has been married since 2018 and has two children, Archie Harrison, 5, and Lilibet Diana, 3. In 2020, they shocked the world by quitting their roles as working royals and moving to California. They blamed this change on the attention of the press and continued fears for their safety.
“It’s still dangerous,” Harry said in an interview with ITV in July. “All it takes is one lone actor, one person who reads this stuff to act on what they have read.”
“Whether it’s a knife or acid, whatever it is…these are things that are of genuine concern for me. It’s one of the reasons why I won’t bring my wife back to this country,” he went on.
These remarks came after RAVEC (a committee made up of the Home Office, Metropolitan Police, and the Royal Household) announced that it had removed the royal family member’s automatic right to taxpayer-funded U.K. police protection, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Earlier this year, the London High Court ruled in favor of the government’s decision, which Harry said he planned to appeal.
“The U.K. is my home,” the royal previously said. “The U.K. is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the United States.”
“That cannot happen if there is no possibility to keep them safe when they are on U.K. soil,” Prince Harry continued. “I can’t put my wife in danger like that, and given my experiences in life, I’m reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm’s way too.”
