{"id":894723,"date":"2026-09-13T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894723\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:56:14","slug":"meghan-markle-and-prince-harrys-hypocrisy-exposed-after-posting-cheery-hyper-curated-social-media-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894723\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry\u2019s \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 exposed after posting cheery, \u2018hyper-curated\u2019 social media video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are sending contradictory messages when it comes to their constant desire for privacy<\/a>, especially when it comes to their children.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex shared an intimate glimpse<\/a> into her and husband Prince Harry\u2019s domestic bliss after their move back to the UK on Instagram Sunday, which featured both their 5-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet, and their 7-year-old son, Prince Archie.<\/p>\n

But the move is \u201cstriking\u201d in its \u201chypocrisy,\u201d according to royal commentator Kinsey Schofield. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf privacy is genuinely the priority, the most effective strategy is simple\u2026 stop broadcasting your family life to millions of strangers,\u201d Schofield exclusively tells Page Six. \u201cEvery hyper-curated glimpse of the children, the dogs, the countryside, and their domestic routine invites more attention, more questions, and more interest in where and how they are living.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle\u2019s Instagram video of her and her family back in the UK that she posted Sunday is hypocritical given their desire for privacy, royal commentator Kinsey Schoefield tells Page Six. Meghan Markle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Schoefield points out that the couple\u2019s children \u2014 Princess Lillibet and Prince Archie \u2014 are featured despite Harry previously speaking out about unwanted media attention as a child. Meghan Markle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The host of YouTube\u2019s \u201cKinsey Schofield Unfiltered\u201d adds, \u201cYou cannot deliberately feed that machine and then act astonished or outraged when people want to know more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The royal commentator also points out that Markle has spoken out publicly<\/a> about the dangers of social media when it comes to children, but continues to show Lilibet and Archie on her Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cArchie and Lili are too young to meaningfully consent to having their voices, activities, and private family moments broadcast to millions of strangers,\u201d she says. \u201cHiding their faces does not suddenly eliminate the attention it generates around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoefield specifically calls out Harry\u2019s role in his wife\u2019s social media moves.<\/p>\n

Schoefield says, \u201cYou cannot deliberately feed that machine and then act astonished or outraged when people want to know more.\u201d Meghan Markle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

She also noted about Markle not showing her kids\u2019 faces, \u201cHiding their faces does not suddenly eliminate the attention it generates around them.\u201d Meghan Markle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe has spent years describing the damage he believes media attention caused him as a child, yet he is now participating in packaging portions of his own children\u2019s childhood for public consumption,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot spend years telling the world that unwanted attention traumatized you and then actively manufacture public interest in the private lives of your own children,\u201d she continues.<\/p>\n

Royal commentator Tom Sykes shares a similar sentiment to Page Six, expressing that he felt the video was meant to \u201csell a narrative of glossy family perfection,\u201d and finds the children\u2019s inclusion in it \u201cjarring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially when you look at Harry\u2018s comments in a 2017 video<\/a> which he recorded for the Heads Together charity in which he said said that one of the big problems with social media was that people portrayed a perfect life and then you can feel inadequate when you look at their fake portrayal of their perfect life,\u201d he tells us.<\/p>\n

The video showed a \u201chyper-curated\u201d glimpse at their life back in the UK meant to generate more attention, she also told us. Meghan Markle\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Markle and Harry made the shocking decision to move back to the UK last month after previously stepping back as senior members of the royal family in 2020 and moving to Montecito, California, \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

\u201cEven Harry was able to understand this in 2017 how damaging and fake this kind of performative video is and yet now he is doing the very same thing himself,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n

In Markle\u2019s Instagram video Friday, she shared footage of her and Harry holding hands while on a walk, and also showed Lilibet riding her bike alongside Archie running beside her.<\/p>\n

She later showed one of her children putting their feet in front of a cozy fire, but was careful not to show her kids\u2019 faces.<\/p>\n

The former \u201cSuits\u201d star previously voiced her privacy concerns<\/a> about Lilibet and Archie in a\u00a02022 interview with the Cut, specifically, paparazzi potentially taking pics of them while she picks and drops them off if they were to attend school in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, I have a problem with that,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make me obsessed with privacy. That makes me a strong and good parent protecting my child.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple have since enrolled their children\u00a0in a ritzy $35,000-a-year prep school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Markle previously shared her concerns about her kids going to school in the UK in a 2022 interview with the Cut, noting she has a problem with paparazzi taking pics of them while she drops them off and picks them up. \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

The couple will remain non-working royals after their move back, Harry\u2019s father, King Charles, stated, in a letter earliier this month. They\u2019re pictured here alongside his now estranged brother, Prince William, and sister-in-law Kate Middleton. Zak Hussein \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n

Schofield told Page Six earlier this month that local parents have already been warned<\/a> about new strict rules surrounding the young royals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message sent to families essentially said that, from time to time, some families joining the school may attract a greater level of public or media interest,\u201d Schofield said.<\/p>\n

She also shared, \u201cIt then reminded parents and carers not to photograph or film other children without permission, or share photographs, information or details about pupils or their families on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Harry\u2019s father, King Charles, made it clear in a latter that his son and daughter-in-law were still not working royals<\/a>, despite moving back to the UK. The couple stepped back as senior members of the royal family in January 2020, and moved to Montecito, California.<\/p>\n

The letter said Harry, 41, and Markle, 45, cannot use their titles of His and Her Royal Highness and are \u201cprivate citizens with commercial and charitable interests,\u201d a top palace official told the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are sending contradictory messages when it comes to their constant desire for privacy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[233125,49,48,13163,5784,75,282,175750,1066,1065,1069],"class_list":["post-894723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-lilibet-diana-mountbatten-windsor","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}