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100 day since Megxit

- By Tony Jones, PA

THE Duke and Duchess of Sussex are 100 days into their new life as financiall­y independen­t royals and have begun championin­g new causes from racial equality to combating hate speech.

Meghan and Harry moved to America with son Archie just a few weeks before the coronaviru­s pandemic shut down the globe, and like everyone else have been living under lockdown.

But as they have emerged as restrictio­ns have lifted the couple have voiced their opinions about issues, especially the renewed focus on equality and race that followed the death of George Floyd in the United States.

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement the couple spoke to young Commonweal­th leaders and Harry raised the colonial background of the Commonweal­th: "When you look across the Commonweal­th, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledg­e the past.

"So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledg­ing the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledg­e there is so much more still to do."

Harry's words came after

Meghan, who became the first mixed race person to marry a senior royal, delivered an impassione­d speech to her old high school following the death of Mr Floyd, sharing her "absolute devastatio­n" at racial divisions.

The couple have been working behind the scenes to urge top executives across the world to stand in solidarity with groups which are calling for a Facebook boycott. They have also spoken with a number of organisati­ons leading the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, which is calling on businesses to pause advertisin­g on the platform over the social network's failure to do more to remove hate speech.

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