Meghan Markle recently shared vacation photos with Prince Harry and children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. While the photos showed the family’s European getaway to Portugal and also their visit to Princess Diana’s birthplace, the photos also ended up causing a lot of backlash online.
Meghan Markle’s latest family vacation photos are causing a backlash online
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 drew comparisons between the photos and Princess Diana’s famous holiday snaps from the 1990s, there were many others who started the debate about how insensitive they really were.Many people called out the ‘Suits’ actress for going public with a deeply personal family moment. While at Princess Diana’s childhood home in Althorp, the family of four also reportedly visited her final resting place. Markle had posted the photos with the caption “Summer Vacation.” One of the photos shared a view of the family walking in the greenery, with Archie and Prince Harry holding flowers as Lilibet approached her mother.Many people online called out the actress for sharing the specific photo on her account, commenting that it appeared to be where Princess Diana’s final resting place was. One person commented that it was “disrespectful, exploitative and gross”, while another shared that “Harry and the boy both have gigantic bouquets of flowers, I wonder why, at Althorp? So #MeghanMarkle actually posted pictures of them on their way to #PrincessDiana’s grave. wow How disrespectful, exploitative and gross. What should really be a very private and personal family moment she posts on her public influencer platform for the world to see. Of the, I’m sure, tons of photos he took at Althorp, I wanted you to know that he was at Diana and Harry’s grave.”Many other people made similar comments online, with some even questioning how Diana’s brother Charles, who still lives in their ancestral home, would allow a photo like this to be shared online on social media. However, there were some people who stood by Markle by sharing the photos online, with one person commenting that the haters are blowing the situation out of proportion. Another supporter commented: “They are not mad that Meghan finally released the photos. On the contrary, they have been asking for them for weeks, refreshing Instagram every hour of the day. They are angry that the photos have blown a hole in weeks of false claims that Meghan and the children never came to the UK.”At the time of writing, the Duchess of Sussex has not commented on the backlash.