Inside Meghan Markles Complicated Relationship with Social Media As She Returns to Instagram [Video]

Meghan Markle’s 2025 began with a surprise return to Instagram — an attempt to add light to social media, which has proven to be a dark space for the Duchess of Sussex in the past.

Though Meghan, 43, had teased a return to Instagram in the past — specifically in an August 2022 interview with The Cut — her return didn’t occur until over two years later. On Jan. 1, under the handle @meghan (which had been long rumored to belong to her), Meghan made her first post, a video of her frolicking on a beach nearby her Montecito, California home that was shot by her husband, Prince Harry. Wearing all white in the video, Meghan writes “2025” in the sand before running off camera.

Her most recent post, this one on Jan. 2, teases her new Netflix show, called With Love, Meghan…