Harry and Meghan want to protect children. They can’t escape her father’s shadow

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The royal couple’s appearance at an event to promote online safety came just as Meghan’s father once again made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Brussels: Prince Harry has a message for big tech companies that channels a sentiment shared by the Australian parliament – and many Australian parents.

Joined by his wife, Meghan, the prince arrived at the European parliament on Tuesday (Brussels time) to intensify calls on social media giants to make their platforms safer for young people.

“Don’t put anything in front of our children that you wouldn’t put in front of your own children,” he said at an event in Brussels to promote online safety.

“The majority of these companies, they don’t let their children on social media because they know the dangers.

“So why would you create something that you know is going to harm someone else’s child?”

Harry made the remarks on stage without Meghan speaking alongside him, although she was in the room and arrived with him in a long-awaited appearance.

This was the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had appeared together in front of the cameras since the shocking criminal charges were levelled against Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, in Florida last week.

American prosecutors have charged Markle with possessing child sexual abuse material and produced evidence that suggests he appeared in photographs with some of the alleged victims.

Markle denied the claims and was released from detention last Friday on the condition he wore an electronic monitoring device – only to be arrested again on Tuesday after trying to remove the device from his ankle. Florida police said he was arrested after he tried to cut off the ankle bracelet in the early hours of the morning. Once again, Meghan’s father was making headlines for all the wrong reasons. (The news broke early on Wednesday, AEDT).

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