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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Hayley Spencer

Meghan Markle has launched a mysterious new Instagram account — but what is American Riviera Orchard?

Meghan Markle has done a thing. ‘Thing’ being the operative word here, given how few details there are so far about the surprise new Instagram page, American Riviera Orchard, which she launched quietly last night.

Still, the account has already racked up 339,000 followers and sent the royal rumour mill into overdrive. In a week in which the Catherine Princess of Wales broke the internet after admitting to a Photoshop fail, while recuperating from abdominal surgery, the questions are naturally coming in thick and fast: is this The Tig (Meghan’s old lifestyle brand) 2.0? Does the timing have anything to do with her sister-in-law’s picture editing blunder? And is Meghan Markle the lifestyle guru finally back?

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