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Meghan Markle Posts Instagram Video After 5-Year Break, Faces Backlash

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The Duchess of Sussex has welcomed the New Year by making her return to Instagram with her first account since 2020. On January 1, she posted under the username @meghan, sharing a video of herself running barefoot toward the waves on a cloudy beach while writing "2025" in the sand.

The Duchess, wearing white, then runs past the camera with a broad smile. In under 20 hours of the video being posted, the new account gained almost 781,000 followers.

A representative for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared with NBC News that Prince Harry filmed the video at a beach near their Montecito, California home, where the couple relocated after stepping down as senior royals in 2020, and ceasing the use of their official Sussex Royal account.