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The daft thing is there are plenty of alternative names they could have taken, that are genuinely idle accounts, and arguably better names:

sussexroyals (there are two of them after all) thesussexroyals (more grammatically correct) thesussexes (as they are commonly referred to in the press) harryandmeghan (has only posted once since Dec 2017) meghanandharry (ladies first!)

and so on...

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I'd imagine the Prince's staff contacted Instagram to talk about having an account set up, and maybe suggested the name.

Instagram people were probably star struck, and salivating at the idea of _millions_ of eyeballs and media interest on the site, that they pretty much waived anything through.

I'd imagine a lot of the top brass at companies would do anything for a slice of celebrity/royal action, it's a gold mine and worth a lot more to them than some peon from Reading who just lurks.

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