The prince did everything to please his beloved Meghan. As noted by royal columnist Valentine Lowe, the girl was determined — she warned Harry that if he continued to hide their affair, she would leave him. The prince was in a panic.
Harry called Kensington Palace's public relations secretary Knauf and asked him to release a statement saying Meghan was his girlfriend. Markle wanted public confirmation of the seriousness of their relationship. She was convinced that the palace did not want to protect her from the attacks of the media. The girl was going through not the easiest period in her life — she became the main object for trolling all over the world, and the barrage of negativity that hit her daily, as she herself says, "just took her down."