March 12, 2025

Is Meghan using the kids for marketing? Some think so.

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Meghan appears to be comfortable using the children to help market her new show. The Duchess of Sussex shared glimpses of the young royals during a video of her making cookies alongside friends.

Meghan captioned the video: "When making thumbprint cookies at home becomes a family affair!"

We learned from Meghan’s appearance on Drew Barrymore that children’s accents are a mix of British and American.

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Calorogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I

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am your host, Mark Francis. Megan appears to be comfortable

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using the children to help market her new show, The

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Duchess of Sussex. Shared glimpses of the young royals during

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a video of her making cookies alongside friends. Megan captured

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the video when making thumbprint cookies at home becomes a

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family affair. We learned from Megan's appearance on Drew Barrymore

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that children's accents are a mix of British and American.

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Meghan said, some of the words they still say with

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a British accents, so they'll say zebra and what else

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do they say? They have these little moments where it

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comes out they have very American accents, but they say

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words that are just like Harry and I think it's adorable.

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Zebra is a good one. Megan also shared some vague

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details about her daily schedule, which seems to consist of

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two school runs, meetings, and dating Harry. She said, we

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love doing school drop off and pick up for the kids.

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Our days are busy with meetings, but we have lunched

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together every day that middle of the day catch up.

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We just make it a point to date each other.

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Royal commentator Sheen Watson observed in The Times that Harry

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appears diminished during his brief appearance in the show, which

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is part of Meghan's growing presence in the lifestyle space.

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Watson pointed out that this is not an isolated instance,

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remarking that beyond the Invictus Games, Harry has largely taken

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a back seat when it comes to making headlines for

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his own projects. Watson writes, the second series of With

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Love Megan has just been confirmed, and like it or

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hate it, there is no denying that Meghan's whole life

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has been working towards this point. Harry is already looking

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like a spare part in her new incarnation as a

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lifestyle icon. Blinken You'll miss him. Not only that he's

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waged at the back of the crowd of well wishes

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at her signing off party, he seems diminished, unsure of

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what's expected of him. PR expert Renee Smith noted that

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Meghan's poorly received cooking show is completely in line with

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Megan's carefully curated image. Smith told The Express, from a

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PR and brand perspective, the show is exactly what I expected. Glossy, polished,

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and completely in line with Megan's carefully curated image. It

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leans heavily into her aspirational lifestyle branding. It's warm, wholesome,

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completely overacted, the smiles they never end, and steeped in

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an almost story book like domesticity. I guess I have

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a unique standpoint on this, having written my own TV

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show which I also co hosted. What ended up on

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the screen was nowhere near what I had envisioned. Megan,

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on the other hand, seems to be exactly what we

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expect she is. There's no real disparity between her social

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media and her show. The hyper produced, opportunistic, aspirational aesthetic.

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It's the same across the board, which means that love

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it or hate it, I would bet my life on

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the fact that this isn't an act or a brand decision.

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It's her authentic brand, through and through. There is good

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news for Meghan. The Rotten Tomatoes score for her show

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has been trending upward. Last time we checked, it was

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up to seventeen percent favorable, up a full five points.

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Meghan seems happy with her show, sharing an Instagram video

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for more recipes fun and reasons to check out the show,

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which in just twenty four hours is already in the

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top ten. She wrote, thank you to all of you

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around the world who are tuning in. Count Thomas Michael

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among those who thinks Megan's new show feels inauthentic. Thomas,

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who has been estranged from megansins twenty eighteen, criticized the

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show in an interview with the Male, claiming, Unfortunately, Megan

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has never been authentic. She has to think about everything.

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She's not spontaneous. Everything she says is pre planned and rehearsed.

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It makes me laugh because I know all her looks

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and expressions. I know when she's faking it up for

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the cameras. She's trying so hard to be perfect that

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she tenses up every time the camera is on her. Thomas,

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particularly unimpressed with Meghan's fondness for fruit platters and decorative touches, added,

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I don't think most people these days can afford to

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go out and has been ninety dollars and fruit. She's

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out of touch with normal people. She puts edible flowers

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on everything. No one has edible flowers. Handy sending kids

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off to school with edible flowers and their food is silly.

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Kids don't like them, and if you put edible flowers

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in a kid's lunchbox, they would probably get teased at school.

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While Meghan has not publicly addressed her father's remarks, she

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instead took to Instagram to highlight the positive reception her

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show was received, posting videos from viewers who had recreated

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recipes from the series. Meghan wrote, love seeing how inspired

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you are by With Love Meghan, keep up the beautiful work.

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Pallacentric will be right back. We're not sure this is

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the reaction Meghan Sussex was looking for when she released

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With Love Meghan. Judy James said Meghan's unreality show was

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also a Dystobian nightmare for feminists, a glimpse of how

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women might have looked have we never got the vote

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and been consigned to a Jane Austin world of sprigged

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cotton and flower arranging, where survival meant marrying rich and

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entertaining the locals. There is a strong sexual theme to

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this series that projects from Meghan's powerful use of her

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vocal tone. When it's not bubbling like a brook, it

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becomes sexily husky and creaky. She sounds breathless at times,

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and then most sensual of all. She will dip into

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a whisper with a yes or other intimate sounding moments

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of shared appreciation. If you spoke like this in your

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day job, you'd beank catnip to the guys. She introduces

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this as her bee tone at the start of the show,

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but the whisper is a signature tonal device, whether there

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are bees around or not. With love, Megan is the

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gift that keeps on giving. The Daily Mail recapped some

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of the reactions. Royal reporters Rebecca English and Richard Eden

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did not mince their words. Eden said it was just very,

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very boring. His remark prompted laughter from the podcast host

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Joe Elvin, who quipped that is probably not the reaction

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Megan will be hoping for. Rebecca English appeared equally unimpressed,

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conceding that she lost the will to live after the

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episode about making ice cubes, Episode five features Meghan offering

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instructions on crafting floral ice cubes, cautioning against the use

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of tap water as it renders the cubes cloudy, thereby

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obscuring the pedals within English, who admitted she had approached

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the series with an open mind and a high bar

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due to Megan's previous success with the Tig, appeared to

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struggle with the show's direction. I couldn't really work out

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what she was trying to say or who she was

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trying to appeal to, she noted. Even meanwhile, found himself

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particularly incensed by the final episode's closing toast, in which

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the Duchess expressed her excitement at sharing a new chapter,

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describing her latest adventure as a business. In his view,

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this carried the strong implication that while she was in

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the royal family, she couldn't show her creativity. He deemed

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this highly offensive, pointing out the Royals I afforded ample

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opportunities to engage in meaningful initiatives, citing the Duke of

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Edinburgh's establishment of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, the Prince's Trust,

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and the Earth Shot Prize. Let's be clear what she

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actually meant was money, he concluded. Perhaps one of the

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more revealing moments came in an exchange with writer and

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comedian Mindy Kayling, who referred to Megan as Megan Markle.

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The Duchess swiftly corrected her, stating that she now goes

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by Sussex. Richard Eden remarked that was news to all

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of us because we didn't realize they were using those titles.

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