Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Just Broke An Instagram Guinness World Record


Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have amassed more than 2.6 Million Instagram followers in just 24 hours.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have officially broken the Guinness World Record for being the fastest to get 1 million Instagram followers.

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle launched their own Instagram account yesterday, separate from that of Prince William and Kate Middleton, it was only a matter of time until they broke a million followers. Five hours and 45 minutes, to be exact.

According to Guinness World Records, the @sussexroyal account became the fastest account ever to reach one million followers yesterday. They did so in half the time of the previous record-holder, K-Pop star Kang Daniel, who hit a million in eleven and a half hours.

Before Kang Daniel, the record was held by Pope Francis, who reached 1 million in 12 hours after debuting his verified Vatican Media channel ‘franciscus’ back in 2016.


By the time the @sussexroyal account had been live for 24 hours, it had more than doubled its follower count, for a total of 2.6 million. Its sole post, a slideshow welcoming fans to the account, has racked up over 900,000 likes.

The Royal Family is quite familiar with the social network. Its Instagram account has more than 5 million followers and over 2,400 posts. Even Queen Elizabeth herself has posted content to the account. 

With just a month to go until Meghan’s due date, we wonder if the next picture will be of the new baby – and if that too could secure a record?

 





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