Meghan Markle Turns Off Instagram Comments — and Here’s Why It Matters

January 4, 2025 Virginiacentrist Uncategorized 0

When Meghan Markle returned to Instagram to kick off 2025, many were quick to notice that she had disabled the comments on her account.

On Jan. 1, Meghan, 43, made a much-anticipated return to the social media platform, posting a video of herself on the beach, writing “2025” in the sand. The video was shot by her husband, Prince Harry, on a public beach in Montecito, California, where the couple lives with their children Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3. The next day, Meghan used the platform to share a trailer of her forthcoming Netflix show With Love, Meghan, which debuts on the streaming service on Jan. 15.

Her Instagram return marks the first time Meghan has been autonomously on social media since she shut her personal Instagram account down in January 2018 ahead of her royal wedding to Harry that May. Though she and Harry, 40, were represented on two royal social media accounts — @KensingtonRoyal, an account they shared with Prince William and Kate Middleton, and @SussexRoyal, their account that they stepped away from in March 2020 — and Meghan’s lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, has its own Instagram page, it will be the first time in seven years since Meghan has run her own social media. And she is looking to protect her peace in doing so.

During an October 2020 appearance on the Teenager Therapy podcast, Meghan spoke about being the “most trolled person in the entire world” the year prior.

“I don’t care if you’re 15 or you’re 25, if people are saying things about you that aren’t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging,” she said, adding later in the episode “we all know what it feels like to have our feelings hurt.”

In an episode of the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, Meghan opened up through tears about how threats against her on social media affected her life: “I think for people to really understand, you know, when you plant a seed that is so hateful, what it can grow into,” she said.

“Just a couple of days ago, I was going through the manual for our security team at home, and on one of the pages that I happened to flip to, it was about online monitoring,” she added. “And they’re like, ‘If you see a tweet like this, please report it to the head of security immediately.’ And it just said: ‘Meghan just needs to die. Someone needs to kill her. Maybe it should be me.’ ”

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