April 2, 2025

Affiliate Marketer Meghan Markle not going over so well

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Affiliate Marketing Expert Meghan Sussex is not receiving a good reaction to her latest business endeavor.
Talk TV's Mike Graham told the Express: "I think we’re seeing the collapse of the Meghan-as-humanitarian narrative.
"You simply can’t talk about dismantling institutions, advocating for women’s rights and humanitarian causes—and then pivot straight into affiliate marketing, influencer-style brand placements and monetising your own taste. It’s the kind of jarring contrast that’s hard to ignore."

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intriguing. Am

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your host mark for answers. Affiliate marketing expert Meghan Sussex

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is not receiving a good reaction to her latest business

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endeavor talk TVs. Mike Graham told The Express, I think

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we're seeing the collapse of the Meghan as humanitarian narrative.

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You simply can't talk about dismantling institutions advocating for women's

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rights and humanitarian causes and then pivot straight into affiliate marketing,

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influencer style, brand placements and monetizing your own taste. It's

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the kind of jarring contrast that's hard to ignore. One

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inside it, quoted by The Express, says Megan's affiliate marketing

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comes across as a bit of a word we won't

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repeat but rhymes with what and urged Meghan not to

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oversaturate herself by keeping the doors closed and preserving the mystique.

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Another less offensive word being thrown around is cringe. A

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source tells of The Express. Megan has access, reach and impact,

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but the strategy right now lacks clarity, consistency and direction.

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She's no longer blurring lines between personal brand and purpose.

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She's blowing them up. Pr expert Chad Tickserah adds, it

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honestly feels like Meghan has finally dropped the act of

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being anything more than a well dressed influencer. There's no

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shame in the affiliate game. It's a legitimate hustle. But

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let's not pretend this is some grand reinvention from royal

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tours to reward links. It's quite the pivot. We'll point out.

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Megan is much more than a well dressed influencer. She

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hosts a cooking show for Netflix, sells dog biscuits and

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jam online, and next week is releasing a mildly anticipated

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new podcast. Tax Sera adds she's basically gone from giving

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speeches about global issues to giving discount codes for blazers.

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This move feels like the final nail in the coffin

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for the serious thought leader narrative. In the end, Megan's

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gone from the palace to the Pinterest board. It's not

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that people don't want her to win, but this isn't

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the kind of powerplay most expected. The strategy lacks the

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gravitars of someone who once spoke about dismantling institutional structures.

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Now it's ten percent off handbags and a swipe up

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story away from becoming a full blown fashion affiliate. Queen

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Rebecca English warns Prince Harry to be careful about making

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a Netflix documentary Telling Palace Confidential. I think if he

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was to do it, making the show about Princess Diana,

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it would bring him into massive conflict with his brother,

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because although Harry and William together cooperated on I think

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two documentaries about their mother over the years to mark

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particular landmarks, I know Prince William has made a point

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of saying, look, it really is time to let my

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mother's memory rest in peace. Now. He's made that very clear.

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I mean, apart from joint charitable initiatives like the Diana Awards,

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which I think are very positive ones, they very much

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want to park that side of their mother's life royal inside.

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Deep Crown agrees, Telling Pallace Intrigue, Harry finds himself in

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an increasingly precarious position. The fraternal bond with William, once

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the monarchy's greatest strength, now stands as perhaps its most

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visible fracture. Should Harry proceed with documentaries revisiting Diana's legacy

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against William's explicit wishes. He risks not merely angering a brother,

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but potentially earning the permanent disapproval of a future sovereign.

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The California Prince would be wise to consider that while

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Charles may practice patients born for his own decades long wait,

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King William, shaped by different forces, might adopt a firmer

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approach to familial dissent once the crown rests upon his head.

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Harry apparently learned of his father's recent hospitalization the same

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way the rest of us did by social media, where

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told the Palace did not want to cause unnecessary alarm. Meanwhile,

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The Telegraph reports Center Bali's Sophie Chanduk fell out with

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the Sussexes after refusing a request by the couple to

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tell the media that Michael hadn't been mean to her.

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At a charity polo match, a scene wildly circulated on

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social media in recent days shows Meghan directing the charity's

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CEO to move out of a photo so that Mikel

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herself could stand beside Prince Harry. Chanduka was seen ducking

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awkwardly beneath the trophy to accommodate the Duchess's request. A

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well placed but anonymous source told the Telegraph that it

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comes down to that polo match and the awkward moment

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with Mikl moving her out of the way. Harry then

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demanded that she make a statement to the press, basically

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saying Megan wasn't mean to me, and she refused to

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do that. All this is part of a narrative that

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finds Harry more and more isolated. An insider told the Son,

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first he was a spare to William. Now he's increasingly

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looking like a spare to Meghan, and it's not a

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great look. More palas in just a moment, There was

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an unexpected royal twist on The UK Apprentice, as Lord

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Allen Sugar took aim not at the contestants but a

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Prince Andrew. During the program's traditional shopping channel task, in

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which candidates attempt to flog products live on the air,

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the boardroom discussion turned to a facial steamer one contestant

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described as a device design to unclogged pause and improve

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skin tone. Lord Sugar, however, appeared more interested in its

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vapor output, cuipping, I didn't see you use it. I

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saw the steam coming out of it. Then, with a

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look of mischief, rarely seen in Whitehall or windsor the business.

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Nikoon added half an hour of that would even get

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Prince Andrew to sweat the boardroom, predictably corrupted in laughter.

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The remark was, of course, appointed reference to the Duke

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of York's now infamous twenty nineteen news Note interview in

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which he claimed medical condition rendered him temporarily unable to perspire,

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a claim that raised eyebrows at the time and has

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since become a cultural reference point for the absurd social

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media lit up following the broadcast Careful Sugar or You'll

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Be Handed Those titles back Tom Quinn's new book As

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We Surface, The Tales of Andrew's Teddy Bear Collection. Quinn

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told Fox News Digital he is quite eccentric, and he

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has a collection of teddy bears which he insists of

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places every day in a certain position, a pyramid shape,

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and he gets very cross if it's not done properly.

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He really doesn't do anything for himself. He has a

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member of staff who puts the teddy bears in order.

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There are quite a few twenty or thirty in the

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position that he likes every day, and I know that

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in the past if they're not placed exactly as he wants.

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He can be quite sure tempered and angry about it.

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So when he finds someone who is very good at it,

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he clings to them and he gets the same person

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to do it every day. A lot of his staff

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don't think very much of him because they think he's

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entitled and quite bad tempered, and a lot of his

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bad temper I think is frustration because in many ways

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he felt he would be a better king than Charles.

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His brother Andrew is less introspective, he's less sensitive, he's

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more of a tough guy, and I think he feels

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frustrated even more now that he's no longer a working royal.

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He does tend to take it out on the staff.

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While members of the royal family are no strangers to

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life in the public eye, there remains certain aspects of

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their private lives that are rarely discussed. Tattoos, for example.

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Though one hardly associates the monarchy with body art, a

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small number of royals have indeed sported ink, either discreetly

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or in some cases rather boldly. Take Princess Eugenie, for instance,

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in twenty twenty two, during the National Service of Thanksgiving

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held at Saint Paul's Cathedral in honor of Queen Elizabeth

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the seconds Platinum Jubilee. Eagle eye observers noted a small

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circle tattoo just behind her ear. Further a field on

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the royal family tree, Lady Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the

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Duke of Kenton, third cousin to Princess William and Harry,

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has been rather more forthcoming in her esthetic choices. Lady

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Amelia has been seen with a tiger tattoo on her shoulder,

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as well as another design on her rebcage consisting of

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two small leaves. A third tattoo has also been spotted

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on her wrist, though the designs were something of a mystery.

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While such adornments may seem unconventional within royal circles, Amelia's

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fashion forward, sensibility and modeling work place her in a

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rather different category. Tattooing among royals is not, however, a

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modern invention. King George the Fifth through reigned from nineteen

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ten to thirty six, bought not only one but two

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tattoos before ascending the throne. The young Prince served in

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the Royal Navy, and during a visit to Japan in

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eighteen eighty one received a red and blue dragon tattoo,

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a customary practice among naval men of the era. He

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is also said to have had a tiger tattooed on

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his other arm. Both designs likely acquired well before it

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became apparent that he would one day become king following

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the untimely death of his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor.

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