https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/20/harry-and-meghan-the-disturbing-origins-of-megxit-mean-it-should-go-away/

As soon as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their stunning announcement that they wanted to stop being senior members of the royal family, the term “Megxit” began popping up in headlines and on social media.

The term, as Vanity Fair explained, quickly become widely used in both tabloids and mainstream news articles as “a clever catch-all” to describe the drama surrounding Harry and Meghan’s decision to strike out, become financially independent and start living outside the U.K.