Meghan Markle is getting very candid about her life with the royal family. As she makes the rounds promoting her new podcast Archetypes, the actress and former princess opened up about the realities of balancing protocol — and the moments when she pushed back.
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During a recent interview with The Cut, Markle explained that parents don’t have control when it comes to sharing a newborn royal’s photos. “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 (the U.K. media pool).” That didn’t sit well with Markle, given the way that tabloids had covered her. It’s too heinous to print here, but do a quick Google search and it’s easy to find the kind of headlines those outlets were printing about Markle, some of which have since been pulled.
“Why would I give the very people that are calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people that love my child?” she asked. “You tell me how that makes sense and then I’ll play that game.”
Instead, Markle and Prince Harry decided to start an Instagram account, separate from their royal one, and posted photos of Archie there. They would continue to use that account to…
