The Telegraph hasn't ruled out working with a journalist who made a racist tweet about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's baby name

• Columnist Julie Burchill shared a racist tweet about Meghan and Harry's baby name choice.
• Burchill, who has written for The Telegraph, wrote on Facebook that she was fired.
• A source close to the newspaper told Insider this isn't the case.

British newspaper The Telegraph says reports that it has fired one of its contributors who made a racist comment about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's baby name aren't accurate.

A source close to The Telegraph told Insider on Wednesday that the writer, Julie Burchill, was not fired because she was never a member of staff. She was a contributor to the publication, and the publication hasn't ruled out the possibility of using Burchill's writing again in the future, the source added.

On Sunday, Burchill - who is known for her lifestyle and opinion pieces on The Telegraph - responded to the news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex named their daughter Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor after the Queen's nickname on Twitter.

"What a missed opportunity. They could have called it Georgina Floydina," she wrote, referencing George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020 and whose death sparked racial injustice protests around the world.

Screenshots of Burchill's tweet were shared by HuffPost reporter Carly Ledbetter, who wrote in a tweet on Monday that the journalist's Twitter account has been deleted. In the same tweet, Ledbetter said that Burchill's author page remained on The Telegraph's website; at the time of writing, this is still the case.

-Carly Ledbetter (@ledbettercarly) June 7, 2021

Several publications, including The Independent, reported on Wednesday that Burchill had been fired from The Telegraph, citing a post from a Facebook account that appears to belong to the journalist.

"I've been sacked by the Telegraph - it's been a lovely five years, and I'll always be grateful to them for ending my Wilderness Years," the post reads. "However, I'd be lying if I said that I hadn't often moaned to my husband recently about them always rejecting my *edgy* column ideas and giving me more pedestrian ones - which I've done splendidly anyway. I hope you can see my archive here. Onwards and upwards!"

Burchill did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Meanwhile, a lawyer who responded to Burchill's tweet with a racist comment was suspended by her firm as a result.

Joanna Toch, founder of UK-based firm Family Law Cafe, responded to Burchill's original tweet: "No Doria? Don't black lives matter?" according to The Independent.

The tweet appears to reference Markle's mother Doria Ragland, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Independent reports that Toch later apologized, writing: "I am very sorry for the comment and what I saw as a joke. I've fought during my professional life against racism which is abhorrent. I'm not a judge and I have children of colour and I apologise unreservedly."

Representatives for Family Law Cafe did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, but the firm's board of directors confirmed in a statement shared on Twitter on Tuesday that Toch had been suspended "with immediate effect pending an internal review into her recent comments on Twitter."