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Meghan Markle is as regal as ever.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, kicked off 2025 with a clean slate on Instagram. Markle launched her own Instagram account with the username @meghan on Wednesday. Her first post was filmed by her husband, Prince Harry, 40, in Montecito, California, where the pair resides with their kids, Archie and Lilibet.
In the video, Markle donned an all-white outfit and ran on the beach, writing “2025” in the sand before smiling and running back off camera.
The actress also updated her profile picture to a black-and-white shot of herself smiling and sporting another white look.
Markle’s return to Instagram comes almost five years after she and Harry made a final post on their joint page, @sussexroyal. “Thank you to this community — for the support, the inspiration and the shared commitment to the good in the world. Harry & Meghan,” the couple said in March 2020.
In the post’s caption, the “Suits” alum and Duke of Sussex added, “While you may not see us here, the work continues. … We look forward to reconnecting with you soon. You’ve been great! Until then, please take good care of yourselves, and of one another.”
According to People, Markle is excited to return to the app to reconnect with communities around the world and share updates about the projects she’s working on. The duchess wants to lead by example and demonstrate the potential for social media to bring joy and positive connections to others.
Markle’s post comes months after she hinted she wanted to rejoin the app during a conversation with The Cut.
“Do you want to know a secret?” she said in the August 2022 interview. “I’m getting back … on Instagram.”
Later in the interview, Markle relayed she was “no longer sure she would actually return to Instagram.” However, she had been able to maintain a presence on the platform in the past. Before she and Harry tied the knot in 2018, the American Riviera Orchard founder garnered 3 million followers on Instagram under her name and lifestyle blog, “The Tig.“
In 2017, Markle shut down her successful blog only a few months before she and Harry got engaged. The following January, she deleted her social media pages for good.
“It was a big adjustment — a huge adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life,” she explained to The Cut.
After marrying Harry, news about their royal work only appeared on the @KensingtonRoyal accounts, and updates on Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Stepping into her new role came with strict online and off rules.
“There’s literally a structure by which if you want to release photos of your child, as a member of the family, you first have to give them to the Royal Rota,” Markle said to the outlet last summer, referencing the U.K.’s media pool. The royal added that she questioned why would she release photos of her child to the media before she could “share it with the people that love my child?”
Shortly after, Markle and Harry launched a separate Instagram page, @SussexRoyal, where they shared their own updates separate from those of William and Kate.
The @SussexRoyal Instagram account stopped being updated after the couple stepped back from their royal roles in 2020.
The pair has since lived separate lives from their royal counterparts.
Despite reports they were invited to spend the festive season with relatives in the UK, Markle and Prince Harry enjoyed a quiet Christmas in California.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward told The Mirror: “Harry and Meghan were invited for Christmas at Althorp with thrice-married [Princess Diana’s brother] Uncle Charles, now Earl Spencer, but decided to stay in California.”
“Meghan says it’s important for her that Archie and Lilibet can have ‘connective memories’ of Thanksgiving and Christmas at home and enjoy the traditions like putting out ‘carrots for the reindeer,” Seward stated.
However, Harry and Markle reportedly enjoyed the day with the actress’ mother, Doria, at their Montecito home.
As for Harry’s kin, all working members of the royal family congregated in St. Mary Magdalene Church on Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Christmas Day.
King Charles, 76, and Queen Camilla, 77, who have attended morning mass at Sandringham Church annually on Christmas for years, were joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
The family ended a difficult year as both the king and the princess were diagnosed with cancer.
Last February, Buckingham Palace revealed that Charles had been diagnosed with cancer and had started treatment. His diagnosis was discovered in January after he underwent a planned procedure to treat a benign enlarged prostate.
In March, Kate revealed that she had also been undergoing cancer treatment for about a month. In September, the Princess announced she had finished her chemotherapy treatment and was cancer-free.