The former royal got candid about just how much The Firm made things worse behind the scenes.
, the 41-year-old former royal got candid about just how much The Firm made things worse behind the scenes.
Markle’s personal Instagram account, which boasted three million followers when she and Harry got engaged, was among the many things the monarchy closely monitored. “It was a big adjustment—a huge adjustment to go from that kind of autonomy to a different life,” Markle recalled. The limits on her personal account were nothing compared to the ones imposed on the one that she began sharing with Harry, Kate Middleton, and Prince William, @KensingtonRoyal.
“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,” she said, referring to the U.K. media pool. She simply didn’t understand the policy, especially seeing as she knew some of the responses to those post would take the form of.
One month before she gave birth to their now three-year-old son Archie, Markle and Harry decided they’d had enough. They said goodbye to the “exchange game” by starting their own account, @sussexroyal, where they occasionally sharedof Archie of their choosing. But losing the ability to reference the monarchy in their branding was one of the consequences of “Megxit,” so in March of 2020, the couple cryptically announced that they were embarking on a “new chapter” and would no longer be posting.
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