Confessions of a Female CEO's Meghan Markle comments on Donald Trump tariffs

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome through Palace Injury AGAM your host Mark Francis. In an interview with Fortune, Megan discussed how the Trump administrations proposed to tariffs are unlikely to affect her fledgling business, at least for now. The Fruit Spread Entrepreneurs said, at the moment, all of our products are currently made in the US, so we don't anticipate tariffs affecting us directly, but as we look at the larger context of how this is going to affect the consumer day to day, I'm very grateful that in part of the conception of this brand, I wanted to create products that look more prestige but are more accessible and affordable. I think during any time of recession, people still want to find creature comforts, items that can bring them joy. You'll see the bulk of our SKUs are under twenty dollars. From our standpoint, certainly, for me, even in the expansion of the brand, things should still feel accessible.

1:01 The Duchess of Fruit Spreads new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, has made a swift ascent up the Apple charts, but the critical reception has been far less flattering. Described variously as vapid, stomach turning and an ego fluffing conversation. The show has drawn a barrage of one on two star reviews across British, Irish and Australian media. The Times awarded the podcast a single star, with columnist James Marriott writing that he was seized by an urge to beat my head against the wall. He criticized the lack of substantive business content, noting receiving business advice from a Californian multi millionaire who owes her fortune to marrying a prince is as illuminating as you would expect. He added, Megan's business isn't really a business. It's been like the corporate equivalent of Marie Antoinette's dairy farm, a pleasant game of make believe for an idle rich woman. The Irish Times was similarly scathing, with Laura Slattery condemning the show as a mutual lovin of a multi millionaire and a duchess who want credit for daring to love themselves. She wrote it doesn't feature any ear pricking insights and called the exchange treakly ego fluffing with no specific business world struggles.

2:10 On offer. Reporter Natalie Oliveri, writing for Australia's nine Honey, described the show as a love in and joke. There seemed to be certain prerequisites it seems the Duchess must have before booking a guest. They need to be friends, and the guest should praise Meghan where possible. In The Guardian, Rachel Oresti said the Sickophantic interview podcast his stomach turning, pointing out that whenever her guest opened up about her life, Meghan very rarely reciprocates. She added, It's hardly a manual of specific constructive business advice, simply an effusive chin wag between two like minded powels that may as well have taken place behind a deluxe set of closed doors. Despite the reviews, the podcast has found a sizable audience. It entered the Apple Podcast Chants at number six in the United States and Canada, reached eleventh in the United Kingdom, and placed twenty second in Ireland and fifty seventh in Australia.

3:02 A podcast industry insider tells Palace Intrigue, well, yeah, when Apple gives you that top promotion box, it's kind of hard not to hit number one in The Standard India Bloc did offer a glimpse of praise, calling Megan a generous and competent interviewer, but she too noted that the Duchess appears frozen in time since shutting her lifestyle blog, The Tig. In twenty seventeen, the BBC's long running satirical panel show Have I Got News For You? Turned its attention to Meghan Markel, with the Duchess of Fruit Spread becoming the butt of multiple jokes about as ever her Netflix series With Love Meghan, and even her culinary skills. Fortunately, her mildly received new podcast was spared. The program included a mocked up image of Megan wearing a chef's hat while making jam, prompting panelists to question the authenticity of her new domestic image. Regular team captain Ian Hislop took a jab at the brand's highly publicized raspberry spread, saying her jam immediately sold out, which I thought was good unless there was only two jars. Comedian Phil Wang didn't hold back either, skewing the Duchess's ventamin to bee keeping.

4:06 She held each honeycomb like it was covered in crap, equipped mimicking an American accent. Wang added, and she's like, I love coming out and getting in touch with nature, but you could see she was about to throw up Megan's Netflix cooking series With Love. Meghan also came in for ridicule the penalties that her kitchen skills amounted to pouring pretzels from one bag into another. Even Meghan's attempt that cultural tradition wasn't spared. Host Alexander Armstrong chuckled over her Instagram plane that lemon tart is a British Mother's Day tradition, a statement met with gentle mockery on the show More Palace in Just a Moment, Hey want to enjoy a palace intrigue without those pesky ad breaks and commercials.

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5:41 All three dressed in accordance with Vatican protocol, black attire for the royal couple, white for the Pontiff. The audience, which lasted approximately twenty minutes, had not been included in the King and Queen's official schedule and was only confirmed late Wednesday night. According to Buckingham Palace, their Majesties were delighted the Pope was well enough to host them and to have had the opportunity to share their best wishes in person. The meeting came on a significant personal occasion for the Majesty's their twentieth anniversary, which Pope Francis acknowledged with a congratulatory message. During the encounter, the trio also exchanged gifts, though the details of those have not been disclosed. It is understood that Pope Francis himself extended the invitation to their majesties after their previously discussed state visit to the Vatican was postponed due to his illness. Talks are continuing regarding a possible future official visit. The Telegraph pointed out as the King laid on a soft power master class the Gulf with Prince Harry could not be clearer, they write. While the Monarch did his duty in Italy, the Duke of Sussex was in court as his wife launched a new podcast. At one time, little irritated the Palace more than a clash of diaries, one member of the royal family overshadowing another on an important day, particularly overseas, where hundreds of people pour hours into perfecting a tour itinerary to suit hosts and guests alike. It was seen as the poor or rest form to steal the spotlight from a senior member of the firm, blowing carefully planned photographs and news reports off newspaper pages and off air for newer, more gossipy drama. When it comes to the Sussex's that ship has sailed. This time. Palisades were aware

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