If you’ve been on the official royal website as of late, then you’ve probably noticed some significant changes to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s joint profile page on the Royal family’s website. Most notably, the site has removed Prince Harry’s powerful 2016 statement, where the royal spare confirms his relationship with his then-girlfriend Meghan Markle and defended her from racist comments on social media and by multiple media outlets.
After tying the knot in 2018 and then stepping down as senior members of the royal family in 2020, the statement has remained on the website ever since it was first published. But, as Newsweek initially reported, internet archival service Wayback Machine shows the link as part of the page until mid-December 2023.
While it's absent from the profile page, per E! News, the statement can still be accessed through the royal domain’s search engine. (Note: The royal family has not explained why the sudden change was made to the Sussex page on the website. Newsweek also noted that in early 2024, the profile page itself was trimmed from roughly 4,000 words to 577, though the link to the statement seems to have been removed before these edits were made.)
