Meghan Markle, 39, and Prince Harry, 36, removed themselves from the royal bubble in order to pursue a “more peaceful life” in the USA with their son Archie Harrison. In recent weeks the couple have launched their new non-profit organisation Archewell after they were banned from using their Sussex Royal brand following their withdrawal from the Fold.
While their Sussex Royal Instagram page was a huge hit with royal fans and had more than 10 million followers, Meghan and Harry will not set-up new social media accounts for Archewell, a source close to the couple has claimed.
The insider told the Times Meghan and Harry had “no plans” to use social media for their new Archewell Foundation and were “very unlikely” to return to platforms in a personal capacity.
The couple are understood to have become disillusioned by the “hate” they encountered on social media.
And Meghan has previously spoken about the “almost unsurvivable” experience of online trolling.
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The Sussexes alleged social media boycott may come as a disappointment to their following.
According to a language expert, the move raises the question as to whether Meghan and Harry are “hiding from the poison or trying to drain it.”
Language expert Judi James told Express.co.uk: “How interesting that social media lost two of its mega-giants this week in the shape of Donald Trump and the royal power couple working under the Archewell Brand.
“While it’s pretty clear Trump’s ‘banishment’ would not have been his choice, for Harry and Meghan this looks like an act of self-exile, similar to their move to the ‘privacy’ of the US.”
She said: “I attended a virtual conference where Meghan was a keynote speaker and was struck by the live comments from the audience that were running down the side of the screen before, during and after she spoke.
“These were adoring fans, praising her beauty, her hairstyle and her overall appearance in the most glowing terms.
“Meghan has millions of loving fans in the world and for many of them, seeing how even this successful, confident and stunning-looking woman with a loving, protective husband and a baby would be suffering trolling like they did themselves in their own bedrooms must have given hope that attacks were not related to reality.
“When Meghan spoke about the hate being almost ‘unsurvivable’ it must have sounded like the voice of empathy.”
The expert added: “But is this new move to be seen as a solution or is it a first step towards campaigning for bigger, structural change in the world of social media?”
According to Judi, Meghan and Harry’s reported wish to ditch social platforms could tie in with their wider work to tackle online trolling.
She said: “Social media allows celebs to bypass all the magazine and news editors and post up their own thoughts, stories and photographs direct as an act of ongoing and unedited PR.
“It also creates a direct conversation with the public or at least the public that frequent the social media sites, and that comes at a price that, for Harry and Meghan, seems to have been too much to pay.
“Harry has appeared to campaign for change in the US though, suggesting this might be the start of something bigger for the couple.”
