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Meghan Markle hints she’ll return to Instagram after long hiatus

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Both Meghan and Prince Harry have been away from social media for a while (Picture: BACKGRID)

Meghan Markle has hinted she’ll rejoin Instagram and has opened up further about her struggles within the royal family.

In a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine The Cut, she also talked about how the n-word was used to describe her child.

The decision to potentially return to Instagram has been inspired by the release of her new podcast, Archetypes, which dropped its first episode on Spotify last week.

Leaning towards the interviewer, she asked in a hushed tone: ‘Do you want to know a secret? I’m getting back … on Instagram.’

It was in fact via Instagram that Prince Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back from their roles within the royal family in January 2020.

Later on in the interview, she relayed she was however unsure whether she would in fact return to the social media platform.

Meghan and Prince Harry took a long break from social media, after quitting Twitter and Facebook in January last year.

They said this decision was made because they were made to feel ‘alienated’ by hate online.

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Meghan recently released her new podcast on Spotify, Archetypes (Picture: Archewell)
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Meghan spoke in an exclusive interview about her future (Picture: Campbell Addy/The Cut)
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Meghan and Prince Harry have spoken out against social media firms in the past (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

There have been no posts to the joint Duke and Duchess of Sussex Instagram, which has 9 million followers, since March 2020.

In their last post they hinted at taking a leave from social media by saying: ‘While you may not see us here, the work continues.’

The couple added: ‘Thank you to this community – for the support, the inspiration and the share commitment to the good in the world. We look forward to reconnecting with you soon. You’ve been great!

‘Until then, please take good care of yourselves, and of one another.’

File photo dated 25/09/2019 of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex holding their son Archie during a meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mrs Tutu at their legacy foundation in cape Town. Issue date: Tuesday August 23, 2022. PA Photo. Meghan recounted the experience on her long-awaited Archetypes podcast, released on Spotify on Tuesday, in a conversation with her close friend, tennis great Serena Williams. Meghan recounted the experience on her long-awaited Archetypes podcast, released on Spotify on Tuesday, in a conversation with her close friend, tennis great Serena Williams. See PA story ROYAL Sussex . Photo credit should read: Toby Melville/PA Wire
Meghan was the most trolled person online in 2019 (Picture: PA)

Meghan Markle has opened up in the past about the trolling and bullying she has faced via social media.

She also spoke about being the ‘most trolled person in the world’ on a podcast to mark World Mental Health Day.

The former actress said during the chat: ‘I’m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female.

‘Now, eight months of that I wasn’t even visible, I was on maternity leave or with a baby.

‘But what was able to just be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable, that’s so big, you can’t think of what that feels like, because I don’t care if you’re 15 or 25, if people are saying things about you that aren’t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging.’

Prince Harry has hit out at social media firms in the past before as well, saying it has helped create: ‘A crisis of hate, a crisis of health and a crisis of truth’ in an interview with American business magazine Fast Company.

Archewell has been contacted for comment.

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