Claims extracted
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5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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The duchess will still join Harry at the event, but has decided not to speak after Thomas Markle Sr appeared in court on Friday charged with possession of child abuse material.
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Sr → join → material
“She’s just not strong enough, emotionally, to be doing any public speaking right now,” a source told The Telegraph.
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source → ’ → Telegraph
The event will be the first time Meghan will have been seen in public since the allegations surrounding Markle Sr.
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Meghan → see → Sr
He appeared in court in the US on Friday, charged with possessing child sexual abuse images.
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He → appear → images
Harry’s now-solo speech will take place at the opening of the Lost Screen Memorial, an art installation honouring children who have died after being subjected to harm online.
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who → take → harm
A spokesperson for the duchess confirmed: “The duchess is travelling with the duke to Brussels and will accompany him to the event but will not speak.”
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duchess → confirm → event
It is understood Harry’s speech will not touch on Markle Sr’s arrest.
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speech → understand → arrest
The brief trip abroad will see Harry and Meghan, who returned to the UK in August, listen to addresses by European Parliament president Roberta Metsola and MEP Antonio Lopez-Isturiz, the first vice-chair of the Child Rights Intergroup.
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who → see → Intergroup
The couple were due to have between 15 and 20 minutes between them for a rare dual-address to speak about the importance of children’s digital safety, but this task will now be taken on by Harry.
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task → have → Harry
They will also be shown the memorial exhibition which features smartphone-shaped light-boxes each displaying a lock screen photograph of a child or young person who died due to online harm.
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who → show → harm
Harry and Meghan previously unveiled the temporary Lost Memorial installation in New York City in 2025.
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Harry → unveil → 2025
The duke will later join a panel discussion called Beyond Promises: Building A Digital Future That Works For Children to discuss how to protect children online.
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That → join → children
Questions will be permitted from the audience, but not the media.
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Questions → permit → audience
Markle Sr, 82, was arrested by FBI agents after they seized a haul of material from two Los Angeles storage units he rented for nearly two decades.
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he → arrest → decades
He is charged with one count of possession of child pornography and is subject to home detention and electronic tagging following his release on bail after his court appearance on Friday.
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He → charge → Friday
He came under investigation after he was reported to police in the Philippines and the FBI last month by his son, Thomas Markle Jr, who allegedly found illegal images in his father’s belongings in Cebu City.
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who → come → City
Mr Markle Jr was named as a “person of interest” by a Philippines’ government minister, but it was later reported that the matter had been cleared up and that police had apologised to Mr Markle Jr.
Meghan said she was “deeply distressed” at the allegations surrounding her father, from whom she has been estranged since the run-up to her 2018 wedding.
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she → name → wedding
She revealed she was sent a letter via the Metropolitan Police and Royalty and Specialist Protection in 2019 which made “troubling and disturbing allegations” about Markle Sr, but she was given assurances these were being investigated.
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these → reveal → assurances
The Met has admitted it never shared the details with other law enforcement agencies, and the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, is now investigating the force’s conduct.
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watchdog → admit → conduct
The duchess had wanted to “speak out” immediately after reading the letter but police advised her against this, sources said.
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sources → want → this
When former TV lighting director Markle Sr had his leg amputated in the Philippines last year, he made pleas for the duchess to contact him.
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duchess → have → him
Meghan is said to have written him a final letter in which she said she knew he was an abuser and that he would never meet his grandchildren, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
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he → say → grandchildren
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