Almost seven years after shutting down all of her social media accounts, Duchess Meghan is back on Instagram.
On Wednesday, the Duchess of Sussex kicked off 2025 with her first post on the platform under her new handle @meghan. In a clip shared to the Grid, photographed by her husband Prince Harry, Markle is seen running on a public beach near her home in Montecito wearing cropped white jeans and an oversized white linen button-down. . Her dark brunette hair was in loose waves and she wore minimal makeup.
Once at the shoreline, she carefully wrote “2025” in the sand with just her finger, then turned and ran back toward the camera.
According to People magazine, “Meghan is excited to return to social media as a way to reconnect with her community around the world and share updates on the projects she’s working on, explaining that social media brings joy and positivity. We want to lead by example in demonstrating the potential that connections can bring. “
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The Duchess of Sussex originally teased her return to social media during an interview with The Cut in August 2022. “Do you want to know a secret?” she asked. “I’m coming back to Instagram.”
After Markle got engaged to Prince Harry in January 2018, she initially deactivated all of her accounts. “It was a big adjustment. It was a big adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life,” she said of the transition period.
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A month before Archie was born in 2019, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry launched a joint Instagram page titled @SussexRoyal, which The Cut reported had more than 1 million followers in six hours. It was reported that. However, after Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan stepped down as senior royals in 2020, the account stopped being updated, and its last post was in March.