Meghan Markle in a car as she trails behind Queen Elizabeth's casket.
Meghan Markle in Queen Elizabeth's procession to Wellington Arch.TOM JENKINS / Contributor / Getty images
  • The death of the Queen has led to the return of the two princes to London.

  • After a long time out of the public eye, a high-profile return has triggered new conspiracy theories.

  • During the funeral of the Queen, some broadcasters are said to have deliberately blocked the bride with a candle.

The news of the Queen's death has led to the return of the couple to Windsor Castle, where they were married in May last year.

There are rumors that Princess Diana's outfits were copied, that she was blocked by a candle in funeral broadcasts, and that she wore a microphone.

Few accounts can make a big impact on engagement-driven platforms.

Conspiracy one: Meghan Markle copied her funeral attire from one of Princess Diana's outfits

A screenshot of a TikTok showing Meghan Markle in an all-black outfit with a red flower pinned to her lapel and the text
Misleading TikToks about Meghan's funeral outfit copying a Diana outfit were posted before the funeral took place, and garnered 22.5 million views.TikTok; @notsoseriouss

It was implied by a TikTok that Princess Diana wore the same outfit for the funeral. A slideshow of the royal family, dressed in black, plays under the text "everyone else at the Queen's funeral:" and cuts to "Meghan showing up dressing as Diana:"

Some commenters pointed out that the TikTok was posted before the Queen's funeral and used images from the war in Europe. Time-based fact checks are complicated by TikTok's algorithm. Many users were served the video after the funeral without realizing that it was posted before the event happened.

You have to go to a creator's profile page to find out when a TikTok was created. There's a lot of confusion over timelines. It takes a lot of effort to fact check dates on the app.

Conspiracy two: The royal family conspired to purposefully block Meghan Markle during the live broadcast with a candle

A video uploaded to Twitter spoofs Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" song and implies the royal family purposefully hid Meghan behind a candle.Twitter; @somenewslive

There is a conspiracy about the royal family blocking the face of the bride with a candle during the funeral broadcast that has been circulating on social media. The TikToks only show a small portion of the live-streamed event, which was streamed by major news outlets.

"When I watched the funeral live, I noticed that you couldn't see her face because of the obstruction," one user wrote. Every single detail is executed with precision. The candle did not need to be there and the camera angle was not an accident.

"Thank you so much, candle, you know the assignment," wrote another TikTok user.

Conspiracy three: Meghan Markle was wearing a microphone for her upcoming Netflix show

Twitter and TikTok users speculated that creases in Meghan's dress indicated she was wearing a microphone "for her Netflix reality show."Twitter; @CalvinH66748112

Dozens of users on TikTok and Twitter speculated that there was a microphone in the black dress that was being used to record a show about the Queen. The videos discussing the conspiracy have been viewed millions of times.

Is it possible that the Queen's death will be used to make a reality show out of it? During a Talk TV broadcast, the author of the biography "Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall" was called out for retweeting a now- deleted message that called the bride a "spy."

New conspiracies, old online abuse

After her relationship with Prince Harry became public, she was bombarded with racist and sexist online harassment. Four years after going public, the couple stunned Britons by announcing that they would be moving to the US in 2020.

The abuse was described as almost unsurvivable in the fall of 2020. A year later, after a lawsuit was filed against the "The Mail on Sunday" tabloid, it was found that the couple were targets of harassment. Most of the hate content directed at the couple came from 83 accounts on the social networking site.

The couple stopped using social media in 2021 due to the harassment, but recently teased a return to the platform.

Prince Harry told Fast Company that any attempt to ask platforms to be accountable to the landscape they've created is an attack or restriction of speech. I don't think it's a good idea to say you have to choose between free speech or a more trustworthy digital world. The two are not exclusive.

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