Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are excitedly expecting the arrival of their royal baby, with a due date forecast for later this month. Yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex launched their own Instagram account, with one PR expert predicting that this is how the couple may choose to release the first images of their newborn. It comes after their split away from Kate Middleton and Prince William at Kensington Palace, which has further fuelled rumours of a rift between the two royal households. 

More recently, a royal expert claimed that the couple plan to raise the new baby “away from the spotlight”.

Channel 5 documentary “Royals at War”, which aired last month, heard from Katie Nicholl, a royal biographer who has works on Prince William and Prince Harry to her name. 

Ms Nicholl explained: “Harry has wanted to strike out on his own and I’m sure Meghan has encouraged that.

“I also know that they want to raise this child away from the spotlight.”

This comes in contrast to the birth of Prince George, who, as third-in-line to the throne, was under intense public scrutiny from the start.

As a one-year-old, he was taken on a royal tour of Australia and dubbed the “Republican-slayer” because of his  huge public appeal. 

Ms Nicholl’s comment suggests that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may not choose to expose their new baby to royal duties in the same way. 

The royal author also said that the split of the Duke and Duchess’ royal household away from Kensington Palace is the “end” of their Fab Four partnership with Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Ms Nicholl said: “I think it is the end of the Fab Four.

“The staff will also be separated, you will have courtiers who work for William and Kate, and you will have courtiers who work for Meghan and Harry.

“That make sense, their careers and roles are moving in different directions.”

However, the Daily Mirror’s Royal Editor Russell Myers, speaking on podcast Pod Save the Queen, has explained how the division of royal household staff has not gone quite as planned.

He said: “We’ve been previously told the staff would be split among the two – [that] they’d have their own separate courts but the staff would probably be split across the Cambridges and Sussexes.

“That hasn’t happened – all the staff have gone with the Cambridges, and Harry and Meghan are going to have to find their own staff.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Instagram account, @SussexRoyal, is part of the split in communications as they establish their new offices at Buckingham Palace, under the Queen.

Meghan and Harry will move into Frogmore Cottage, their new home on the Windsor Estate, soon after extensively renovating the house.

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