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Meghan Markle, were you silent or were you silenced when it came to your father? “If you are complacent, you’re complicit.” Those are your words from 2020. You also said the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing. Your husband has argued that silence only allows the abuser to abuse. You have never struggled to find your voice when the subject was the royal family. Interviews, documentaries, speeches, private conversations aired publicly, institutional failures dissected at length. For years, you insisted that silence was the problem and that using one’s voice was the remedy. But when it came to the troubling allegations concerning your own father, where was that voice? You say you learned about them years ago and were assured they were being investigated. Yet the Metropolitan Police has confirmed it was not investigating your father and did not pass the allegations to other law enforcement agencies. So who gave you those assurances, and what exactly were you led to believe was happening? You continued speaking at length about the royal family, institutional failures and the importance of protecting children, while remaining publicly silent about these allegations. How does that square with your own declaration that complacency makes people complicit? Protecting your own children is not the issue. The issue is the seven-to-eight-year public silence that followed while you continued to speak freely about every other failure you wished to highlight. You have spent years positioning yourself as an advocate for children’s safety and an opponent of institutional inaction. Yet when it came to allegations involving your own father, your explanation is that you trusted someone else was handling it. You do not get to set the standard that complacency equals complicity and then treat your own silence as exempt. You do not get to demand accountability from the royal family, the media, and every institution you have criticised while offering “I trusted the authorities” as a sufficient explanation for years of silence. You do not get to speak at length about the duty to protect vulnerable children and then leave unanswered what, exactly, you understood was being done for other children during those years. If the principle is real, it is not selective. If the voice was available for years of royal commentary, it was available here too. So again: were you silent or were you silenced? Because on the royal family, you were never short of words. And by your own standard, silence was never supposed to be the acceptable choice. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…