Meghan Markle’s Wikipedia Was Edited Right Before Her Relationship With Prince Harry Broke

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Photo credit: Chris Jackson - Getty Images

From Cosmopolitan

  • Meghan Markle’s Wikipedia page was changed right before news broke that she was dating Prince Harry.

  • The changes removed a reference to Deal or No Deal and added information about her humanitarian work.


The world found out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were dating way back in 2016—and apparently, the duchess’s Wikipedia page got some pretty hefty edits right before news broke. According to Page Six (which cites Wikipedia’s records of changes), Meghan’s page had a “flurry of activity” on October 9, 2016—including the deletion of this line: “The model who held case #24 on the U.S. version of the television game show Deal or No Deal.”

The page was also edited to describe her as an “activist, humanitarian” instead of a “fashion model, spokesmodel”; a mention of Meghan’s lifestyle site, The Tig, was added; and a whole new entry highlighting her significant humanitarian work showed up:

“Markle is actively involved in the sociopolitical arena. She has also worked with The United Nations Women, where, as an Advocate, she presented at UN Headquarters for the HeforShe Gender Equality Campaign in September 2014,” the addition read. “Meghan has also been a panelist on the esteemed list of speakers for One Young World (Dublin, 2014) and has traveled to Afghanistan with the Joint Chief of Staff on a USO tour December 2014.”

Before you jump to conclusions about Meghan editing her own page, this is NOT the case. Page Six reports that the changes were made anonymously by an IP address that can be traced back to a Los Angeles PR firm—which The Telegraph claims has no known association to the duchess. Unclear why the changes were made, but Meghan’s humanitarian work deserves acknowledgement!

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