Meghan Markle’s audience on Tuesday included girls and women aged 13 to 22 from 172 countries
Meghan Markle, British Duchess of Sussex, said on Tuesday nearly 40,000 adolescent girls and young women around the world were drowning, sometimes positively, in “painfully noisy” negative online conversations.
In remarks delivered via video to the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up Leadership 2020 Summit, Meghan noted that the generation she spoke to grew up with digital technology and knew online media better than anyone.
“You understand that our online world has the power to affirm and support as much as it hurts,” said Meghan, wife of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry.
“There will always be negative voices and sometimes these voices may seem oversized, and sometimes they may sound painfully loud,” she said.
“You can and will use your own voices to muffle the noise,” she added.
“Because that’s what it is – just noise. But your voices are those of truth and hope. And your voices can and should be much louder.”
Meghan, Harry and their baby Archie are now living in Los Angeles after resigning from royal office at the end of March, in part due to intense media intrusion into their lives and critical comments directed against her.
On Tuesday, Meghan’s audience included girls and women aged 13 to 22 from 172 countries.
She noted that young women have already started to make positive changes by organizing Black Lives Matter protests and advocating for criminal justice reform, mental health resources and measures to end gun violence.
In the future, “your gut will tell you what is right and what is wrong, what is right and wrong,” she said. “The hardest part, and it was the hardest part for me, is to chase your beliefs through action.”
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