Hours before jetting over to Geneva, Switzerland, to deliver a speech on the dangers of the online world to a child’s mental health, Meghan Markle shared a picture of herself rocking a purple coat, standing in her closet of designer clothes, with her daughter Lilibet kneeling in front of her.
While there were many critics of this decision, Tom Sykes’ stands out the most, not only because he was present in Geneva when she delivered her speech to a sparse crowd, but because he pointed out the many areas where her post defied her mission.
Royal Expert Tom Sykes Reacts To Meghan Markle Sharing Her Daughter Online Hours Before Geneva Trip
The internet was still buzzing over Meghan sharing yet another picture of Lilibet with the world when she descended on Geneva to dedicate a memorial.
The Lost Screen memorial was dedicated to the children who lost their lives to online bullying.
There, she attempted to open the eyes of the world to the dangers of exposing children to the online world.
Writing on substack, Tom Sykes shared his scathing take on the whole thing.
“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,” he wrote.
“The hypocrisy is breathtaking. It is a boastful image. It is a vain image. It is a staggeringly tone-deaf image,” he continued of the Duchess, who is 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 takes place from May 18 to May 22 in Switzerland.
Taking this into consideration, Sykes noted that Meghan, who is prepped 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.”
Instead of making good on their platform, Sykes claimed that “they have squandered every last drop of goodwill through precisely this kind of stunt.”
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