The royal family quietly removes Prince Harry’s Megan Markle romance statement from its website.

Over four years after Prince Harry and Megan Markle left the duties of the British royal family, the prince’s 2016 statement confirming their relationship and also defending his then girlfriend from racist abuse has been pulled.

Multiple Outlets report that while the statement can be found through the Royal domain search engine, the link to actually bring a user to the statement itself is broken.

En has reached out to Reps for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as well as the palace for comment regarding the matter.

At the time when Rumblings of a romance between Harry and Megan led to a wave of negative press against the suit star, the Kensington Communications secretary, who represented Harry, as well as Prince William and Kate Middleton, shared a rare impassion statement in her defense, saying Megan Markle has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment.

Some of this has been very public: the smear on the front page of a national newspaper, the racial undertones of comment pieces and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.

Of course, in the years since confirming their relationship, Harry and Megan, who share kids Archie 5 and Lilbet 2, tied the knot and ultimately stepped back as senior members of the royal family.

But looking back on the statement Harry has expressed how important it was for him to defend the woman he loved, he recalled in his 2023 Memoir, spare.

We needed a statement out there within a day.

We had a draft: strong, precise, angry, honest, and while the 39-year-old lamented that the statement did not stop the onslaught of harassment on Megan, it also had other repercussions.

In fact, Harry claimed in his Memoir that the bulletin made his brother, William, and his father, King Charles Iii, quote Furious.

Why Harry explained in the book because they’d never put out a statement for their girlfriends or wives when they were being harassed.