Meghan Markle Announces Surprise Weekend Outing in Switzerland for a Key Cause

Stephanie PetitFri, May 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM UTC

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Meghan Markle visits the Royal Children's Hospital in Australia on April 14, 2026
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Meghan Markle is traveling solo to Switzerland this weekend in her continued advocacy for safer online spaces

After debuting the Lost Screen Memorial in New York City, the installation will debut in Geneva

Meghan will be joined by World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the illumination event on Sunday

Meghan Markle is heading to Switzerland as she continues Archewell Philanthropies' advocacy for safer online spaces.

On Friday, May 15, it was announced that the Duchess of Sussex, 44, will travel to Switzerland this weekend. On Sunday, May 17, she will join World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (who she previously joined on a trip to Jordan with Prince Harry earlier this year), global health leaders, and families affected by online harm at the inauguration of the Lost Screen Memorial in Geneva’s Place des Nations, ahead of the opening of the 79th World Health Assembly.

The event, hosted by the World Health Organization and Archewell Philanthropies, will see the illumination of 50 lightboxes, each displaying the lock screen image of a child who lost their life as a result of online violence and digital harm. At the ceremony, Meghan will pay tribute to the children remembered in the installation and underscore the urgent need for stronger global protections for children online.

Amy Neville, an online child safety advocate whose son Alexander is among those in the exhibition, will also address guests.

The memorial, which will be displayed in Geneva through May 22, was created by Meghan and Prince Harry's Archewell Philanthropies, in partnership with The Parents’ Network.

The installation is debuting in Geneva after it was first unveiled in New York City in April 2025 as part of the No Child Lost to Social Media campaign.

At the illumination event in Manhattan, which PEOPLE attended, Meghan told reporters, "These are families that we have been working with for several years. No matter how polarized the world is, or what people may or may not agree on, one thing that we can all agree on is that our children should be safe. All of our children should be safe, and I think tonight, all of these stories solidify that."

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Prince Harry, 41, added, "These children were not sick. Their deaths were not inevitable—they were exposed to, and in many cases were pushed harmful content online, the kind any child could encounter. No child should be exploited, groomed, or preyed upon in digital spaces. To the platforms, they may be seen as statistics. To their families, they were cherished and irreplaceable."

The Lost Screen Memorial seeks to highlight the measurable and preventable harms associated with online violence against children, including cyberbullying, grooming, sextortion, exposure to self-harm content and unsafe emerging technologies without adequate safeguards.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in Australia on April 16, 2026
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Prince Harry and Meghan have made creating safer digital spaces part of their philanthropic work, with both drawing on personal experience.

During a discussion with young people in Australia last month, Meghan commented that she was “bullied and attacked” every day for 10 years on social media and was “the most trolled person in the entire world."

“When I think of all of you and what you’re experiencing, I think so much of that is having to realize that you know that industry, that billion-dollar industry, that is completely anchored and predicated on cruelty to get clicks — that’s not going to change. So you have to be stronger than that," Meghan said.

Prince Harry also noted that social media has “led to so much loneliness for so many people," PA Media reported, before he shared the benefits of therapy with the group: "I waited until I was literally in the fetal position, much older, lying on the kitchen floor. Until I was like, 'Okay, maybe this therapy thing — maybe I should try it.' ”

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