Piers Morgan has blasted a “double standard” shown by Harry and Meghan in relation to their daughter, Lilibet, 5. The princess, who is named after the late Queen Elizabeth II, celebrated her birthday on Thursday, and her parents shared photographs of her to mark the occassion. Mr Morgan said during a panel at SXSW London earlier this week: “They’ve put up photographs of their five-year-old child on social media to millions of people. Immediately recognisable, and I’m like, what are you doing? What is this about? Why would you preach about privacy?
“Why would you lecture the world about the need to be very careful with online stuff about children and so on, and then put your own child out there to millions of people? It makes no sense to me. Maybe it makes sense to their fans, I don’t know. But, to me it’s like, that is a classic example of the kind of double standard that that I think is ridiculous, where, if you’re going to start preaching about stuff, at least try and live up to it.”
The Duchess of Sussex opened the the Lost Screen Memorial at the Place des Nations, featuring 50 illuminated lightboxes, each displaying the lock screen image of a child who lost their life after online violence and digital harm.
“Behind me stands The Lost Screen Memorial,” she said.
“Not statistics. Not avatars. Not data points. Children. Each name belonged to a child who was loved beyond measure. A child whose laughter once filled a kitchen. Whose shoes once waited by a front door. Whose future once felt limitless.”
Meghan added: “Now their faces ask the world questions we can no longer avoid.
“How many more millions of children will be harmed by products that, while innovative, are still designed without sufficient safeguards?
“When will children be able to enjoy the extraordinary potential of technology without it compromising their wellbeing?”