Meghan Markle has come under fire for posting a “tone-deaf” photo of her four-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet, on Instagram just a day prior to addressing concerns about how social media affects children. The Duchess of Sussex has been called a hypocrite for sharing a picture where she is posing for a mirror selfie in a walk-in closet while Liliet is seen hugging her mother’s legs.
The post comes shortly before Meghan Markle was expected to appear alongside the World Health Organization’s Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, at the opening ceremony of the 79th World Health Assembly, which is taking place from May 18 to May 22 in Switzerland.
Meghan Markle’s post with a photo of Lilibet is being bashed by critics after social media warnings
Royal expert Tom Sykes, who was present at The Lost Screen Memorial in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 17, slammed the 44-year-old via Substack. He wrote, “The Duchess flew to Geneva to highlight ‘preventable harms’ to children online. Hours earlier, she posted her four-year-old daughter on Instagram surrounded by a fortune in designer clothes.”
Skyes stated, “The hypocrisy is breathtaking. It is a boastful image. It is a vain image. It is a staggeringly tone-deaf image,” as per DailyMail. He wrote on Substack that Meghan Markle, who has reportedly disabled comments on her personal Instagram account to reduce online negativity, chose to post a photograph of Lilibet to her 4.5 million followers. He mentioned how Markle, who is about to “stand alongside the world’s most senior public health official and talk about the measurable and preventable harms of exposing children to social media has just — voluntarily, for no apparent reason other than self-promotion — exposed her own child to social media”.
The journalist added, “There is a version of reality in which Harry and Meghan could have been genuinely effective advocates for children’s digital safety. They have the platform. They have the personal experience of online abuse. They have the connections.” “But they have squandered every last drop of goodwill through precisely this kind of stunt,” he further expressed.
Skyes concluded by writing, “Anybody with even a passing familiarity with public communications could have told Meghan that posting a photograph of her daughter in a walk-in closet full of designer clothes the night before a speech about online harms to the world’s poorest children would be, at best, a distraction and at worst a devastating own goal.”
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Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta for Reality Tea
