A royal expert has criticised Prince Harry over his comments about online safety. Harry recently spoke on a webinar hosted by youth charity 5Rights Foundation, where he talked about his thoughts on online harm facing young people.
There, the Duke of Sussex outlined his concerns and hopes that his children "will never have to experience the internet as it exists now. He called for a safer digital environment.
But one royal expert, speaking to Talk TV, was quick to point out that Harry and Meghan's children, Archie and Lilibet, were too young to be concerned about such things for some years, reports the Daily Star.
“If one is three and the other is nearly one, they’re not going to be on the internet for some time yet,” said Angela Levin.
“And by the time they become teenagers, I don’t think the online stuff is going to be anywhere like what it is [now], and they won’t want to do it because it will be stale and old. So it’s a ludicrous thing to start preparing a child at the age of nearly one, they’re just not ready for it.
“He’s making an awful lot of money out of Spotify and Netflix and not doing very much for it, so I think it’s pot calling the kettle black."
Meghan was recently dealt a setback when her original animated series Pearl was scrapped amid huge cuts made by the streaming giant. However, her Spotify podcast series, Archewell, is still expected to be released this summer.
And presenter Kevin O’Sullivan noted that the pair had made use of social media themselves to maintain a celebrity presence since their acrimonious royal exit.
“I think they came off Facebook, but both Meghan and Harry haven’t been shy of exploiting the wonderful world of social media to their own advantage in the past, have they?” he asked.
Angela agreed, replying: “Absolutely, they’ve got a vast team of PR people who pass that on. So they might not touch it with their own hands, but they’re using it all the time to promote them non-stop.”
