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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wrote a sweet Valentine's note to Prince Harry and shared a romantic new photo and video on Instagram after their time together in Canada❤

"I had to check with my wife and the British Government to make sure it was OK." Oh Harry, he actually said that out loud.

Meghan and Harry begin fifth day apart as Duke delays trip home to US

Story by Dorothy Reddin, GB News

Prince Harry has extended his visit to Ukraine, leaving him and Meghan Markle spending a fifth day apart as his humanitarian work continues.

The Duke of Sussex flew into the UK on Monday before travelling on to Kyiv after an invitation from the Ukrainian Government.

Harry, 40, has not confirmed when he will return to California, where Meghan remains with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, meaning the couple are now apart for a fifth consecutive day.

The father-of-two said he wants to do "everything possible" to help thousands of military personnel seriously injured in the three-year war with Russia.

Accompanied by a team from his Invictus Games Foundation, Harry is announcing new projects to support the rehabilitation of wounded veterans and to expand sport-based recovery programmes across the country.

Ukraine’s Government estimates that about 130,000 people have been left with permanent disabilities since the conflict began, making rehabilitation a key national priority.

Speaking to the Guardian on an overnight train to the capital, Harry said: "We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process. We can continue to humanise the people involved in this war and what they are going through.

"We have to keep it in the forefront of people’s minds. I hope this trip will help to bring it home to people because it’s easy to become desensitized to what has been going on."

The Duke explained that the visit was sparked by a chance meeting in New York with Olga Rudnieva, founder of the Superhumans Trauma Centre in Lviv, which treats wounded amputees.

He recalled: "I bumped into Olga in New York. It was a chance meeting, and I asked her what I could do to help. She said, 'The biggest impact you have is coming to Kyiv.'

"I had to check with my wife and the British Government to make sure it was OK. Then the official invitation came.

"In Lviv, you don’t see much of the war. It is so far west. This is the first time we will see the real destruction of the war."

Ukraine first entered the Invictus Games in 2017, but its involvement has taken on a new urgency since Russia’s invasion.

The competition, which Harry founded in 2014, provides an international sporting arena for wounded veterans. Reflecting on the Ukrainian team’s appearance at the 2022 games in The Hague, Harry said: "It was remarkable. Every one of the participants had a journey to get to those games, but nobody from any of the other competing nations was going back to war.

"That is why the Ukrainians stood out. Everyone felt an immense connection to them. Some of the competitors were being pulled off the battlefield and were going back to the battlefield. It means so much to us, because it means so much to them."

While in Kyiv, Harry is scheduled to meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and spend time with 200 veterans at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. The Invictus Games Foundation has also been supplying sports equipment and expanding local recovery programmes.

This isn’t an attack on Lili Reinhart. Nor on Meghan Markle, Amber Heard, or Blake Lively. Nor on their fans. It’s an invitation to look more carefully at what we consume as empowerment… and what we defend as if it were sacred.

These figures have publicly shared their pain. They’ve spoken about anxiety, trauma, heartbreak, injustice. And at first glance, that seems brave. But when that pain becomes identity, personal brand, emotional content, something gets distorted.

And the most unsettling part isn’t just how they narrate it. It’s how we protect it.

Fandoms have built emotional sanctuaries around these women. A need to care for them, defend them, shield them from any criticism. And anyone perceived as a “harmer”—an ex, a colleague, a journalist, even another woman—becomes a public enemy.

Context doesn’t matter. Truth doesn’t matter. What matters is protecting the wounded woman.

And that’s where feminism starts to wobble. Because that protection isn’t empowerment. It’s infantilization.

We’re unknowingly returning to the most damaging model of all: the woman-child. The one who needs to be cared for. The one who can’t be questioned. The one who never errs, because her pain absolves her.

That model doesn’t liberate. It traps us in a narrative where fragility is a virtue, and criticism is violence. Where suffering becomes a shield, and vulnerability an emotional currency.

But feminism isn’t that. It’s not about shielding famous women as if they were fragile creatures. It’s about demanding —as we would from any public figure— coherence, accountability, transformation.

We can acknowledge pain without putting it on a pedestal. We can accompany without idolizing. We can care without infantilizing.

Because we deserve models who not only survive their wounds, but transcend them with strength, thought, and community.

If this makes you uncomfortable, touches you, moves you… then we’re already doing something. Because change begins when we stop looking with tenderness and start seeing with clarity.

Meghan Sussex made a stylish return to the New York spotlight with a night out at Gypsy, the Broadway revival starring the legendary Audra McDonald. The Duchess was photographed backstage at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday, where she appeared joyful and relaxed while chatting with cast members and posing for photos. Wearing a chic black top and a houndstooth skirt, Meghan blended elegance with…

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