Is Meghan Markle relaunching her blog?

Meghan Markle seems to be thinking about resurrecting her old lifestyle blog site, The Tig. The Duchess of Sussex closed the blog in 2017 a year before her marriage to Prince Harry.

Now after six years, Markle appears to be making moves to bring back the blog, after it was reported that she had recently filed a trademark and patent for The Tig to launch a revamped version of the site.

What is The Tig?

Markle began the blog in 2014, which focused on her charitable work, travels, food, fashion, and overall lifestyle coverage and advice. Markle has called the site her “passion project”.

The blog is named after Markle’s favorite wine, Tignanello, the first wine that got her into appreciating wine.

“Several years ago I had a sip of wine called Tignanello (pronounced ‘teen-ya-nello’). But let’s be real – in the states most people said ‘tig-na-nello’… or just plain old ‘Tig’,” Markle wrote on a now archived blog post.

“The Italiano of it all gets a little tricky, so the bartender kept it simple; it was a glass of ‘Tig.’ So there I am, with very minimal wine knowledge and I take a sip of this wine,” she explained.

“It wasn’t just red or white — suddenly I understood what people meant by the body, legs, structure of wine. It was an ah-ha moment at its finest.

“For me, it became a ‘Tig’ moment — a moment of getting it. From that point on, any new awareness, any new discovery or ‘ohhhhh, I get it!’ moment was a “Tig” moment.”

Reportedly, Markle closed down the blog after three years because she wanted to focus on her work in the television show ‘Suits’, as well as her humanitarian work. At around the same time she shut down the blog, she also closed her social media accounts, just months before her engagement to Prince Harry was formally announced.

Will Markle restart the blog in 2023?

Markle has reportedly re-trademarked The Tig in the past, doing so in 2019 to keep ownership of the site until 2021, and to prevent anyone from usurping the blog and falsely posting under her name.

Both the Mirror and the New York Post have reported that she’s done so again in the past week. In the three years since Markle and her husband Prince Harry announced they had decided to no longer serve as senior royals, becoming financially independent, the couple has made efforts to establish themselves outside their royal titles.

They’ve gone out of their way to conduct interviews, write books and even star in a Netflix documentary about their severance from the royal family.

With all this in mind, Markle fans are hopeful that her recent trademarking of The Tig signifies a stronger chance that she’ll return to the blog in the near future.