Oct. 26, 2025

Meghan 3.0? Beauty Line Buzz, Brand Strategy Questions, and a Harper’s Bazaar Cover Play

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Insiders say Meghan may be prepping a makeup line under As Ever after a flurry of influencer-style posts and a high-profile dinner with mogul Emma Grede. PR pros see momentum—but also warn about brand cohesion after a social-media typo gaffe and shifting lanes. Meanwhile, reports point to a potential Harper’s Bazaar cover and a renewed push to reset relationships across fashion media.

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Calorogus Shark Media.

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Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Gay. I'm your host.

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Mark Francis is one of the world's most famous podcasters

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turned fruit spread seller turned cooking show hosts about to

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make another career change. Reports suggest the Duchess of Sussex

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is preparing to launch her own makeup line under her

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lifestyle brand as Ever. According to industry and side as,

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Megan's recent Instagram posts showing her applying lipstick with all

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brand names deliberately blurred, were a telltale sign that a

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cosmetics project is in the works. One source told The

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Mail on Sunday, the fact that she didn't want to

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promote or reveal any other brand as a big clue

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that she's gearing up to promote her own range eventually.

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The Duchess is said to have told usssociates she wants

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to leverage her significant influence to build a long lasting

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business empire. The move when market natural next step from

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as Eva's current offerings, which include artisanal fruit spreads and

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edible flower sprinkles. While the brand's food line drew considerable

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attention earlier this year, its financial performance remains unclear, as

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no sales figures have been released. A New York source

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said Megan's cookery never really took off, but it has

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at least launched her as a lifestyle influencer. The word

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in New York is that her eye is already on

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the next big thing, and that's makeup. The Duchess reportedly

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met Vogue editor Chloe Malley during her recent trip to

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New York, fueling speculation that she's laying the groundwork for

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a beauty brand. What makes big money, like really big

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money makeup, of course, said the same sauce she can

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make a lot more money and beauty than selling pots

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of jam. As one beauty expert put it, makeup is

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largely about high end packaging. The product itself is quite

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cheap to produce. Meghan clearly has a flair for presentation,

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so it would be a natural progression. Pr expert Ryan

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McCormick did some loose math for mere two percent of

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her four point three million Instagram followers each by a

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fifty dollars product, the Duchess will make four point three

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million in revenue. One clue may have come from one

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of Meghan's recent appearances. She was photographed alongside British entrepreneur

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Emma Greed, the powerhouse CEO behind Kim Kardashian's billion dollar

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shape Where brand skims and Chloe Kardashian's Good American fashion line.

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Greed hosted a private vegan banquet in Los Angeles, celebrating

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women owning their power, where Megan was the evening's star guest.

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Guests were served as ever Marlboro Sauvignon Blanc, Meghan's own label,

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as the two women were seen laughing together and posing

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for photos in matching business chic looks not my typical

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Wednesday after work, Greed choked in an Instagram post showing

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behind the scenes footage of the dinner. In another caption,

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she wrote, when women choose to collaborate, to champion each other,

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and to speak honestly about the highs and the hard parts,

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we don't just change our own stories, we change what's

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possible for every woman who follows. Public relations experts say

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the optics are impossible to ignore. Meghan Markel's appearance at

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Emma Greed's Los Angeles dinner series is far too strategic

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to be a coincidence. Sa PR strategist Chad techsera the

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timing is significant and there's growing speculation that Meghan is

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preparing to launch a fashion line. Emmagreed, who has built

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billion dollar brands like Skims and Good American, is exactly

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the kind of collaborator who could help her do that successfully.

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Tech Sera described it as a classic soft launch strategy,

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positioning Megan and Emma as equals within the same creative space.

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Trademarks for as Ever already cover a wide range of

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products from cosmetics to yoga equipment and small kitchen appliances,

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but Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield told Daily Mail that Meghan's

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brand identity feels scattered. The problem with Meghan's brand is

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that it's inconsistent and erratic. Her countless business ventures don't

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come across as ambitious. They feel like the efforts of

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someone who can't commit to a single project. If she

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doesn't develop some brand cohesion, soon audiences will grow numb

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to yet another launch or rebrand. Meghan doesn't have the

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gen Z audience that Kaylie Jenner commands or the beauty

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credibility Kim Kardashian built before launching her own Lane brand cohesion.

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Meghan Michael lacks it, as ever lacks it it all

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looks very sloppy and thrown together. If she wanted to

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expand to beauty, she could have started with an as

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ever beeswax lip balm. One of Meghan's recent social media

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posts was the target of online ridicule after fans spotted

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what they believe was a spelling mistake and an early

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morning glass of sham Paine. The Duchess shared a photo

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from the Montecito kitchen this week featuring what she described

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as an elevated breakfast, a crape made with her fourteen

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dollar as ever mix, topped with a fried egg and

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any veggies in your fridge. In her caption, she wrote,

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crape inspo with a savory twist. As ever crape mix,

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a fried egg plus any veggies in your fridge equals

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a fun and elevated take on your favorite breakfast sand witch,

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which is spelt w hic h. But it was that

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last word, sandwich which caught the Internet's attention. Megan added

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an extra h to the word after the d. While

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some speculated it was simply a typo, others thought Megan

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was attempting a pun about which vegetables she chose for

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her meal. Either way, the reaction was swift spell check anyone,

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one commenter wrote. Another added, who has wine with breakfast?

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The photo, which showed the Duchess's plated crepe beside cherry tomatoes,

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chopped herbs, and what appears to be a glass of

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sham sane only fueling the teasing. Details matter, especially on

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social media postings. To brag about your business, one follower wrote.

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During his recent visit to the UK, President Donald Trump

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reportedly turned his attention to royal gossip, and specifically to

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Meghan Markel. According to royal commentator Tom Sykes in The

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Royalist Newsletter, Trump asked Queen Camilla, what's the gossip on Meghan?

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Then?

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What's going on there? Sykes joke that the President would

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have liked an exclusive update. The exchange is said to

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have taken place during Trump and First Lady Millennia's two

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day state visit last month. The couple were greeted at

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Windsor Castle by Prince William and Princess Kate, before joining

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King Charles and Queen Camilla for a carriage procession. At

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that evening's state dinner, Trump praised the royal family, singling

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out William and Kate with warm remarks, Millennia, and I

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are delighted to visit again with Prince William and to

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see her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine, so radiant, so healthy,

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so beautiful, he said, adding his Majesty has also a

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remarkable sun in his Royal Highness, Prince of Wales, really amazing.

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Notably absent from both the event and Trump's compliments were

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Prince Harry and Meghan, who have long been on the

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receiving end of the president's criticism. Trump has previously said

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he would not pay for the couple's security in the

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United States and has referred to Meghan as terrible, telling

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The New York Post earlier this year, I think poor

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Harry has been led around by the nose. Buckingham Palace

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in the White House declined to comment on the reports.

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preparing to appear on the cover of Harper's Bizarre, her

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first ever for the Hearst owned fashion title, in what

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some see as her latest move in her ongoing bid

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to re establish herself in the global spotlight. The Duchess

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of Sussex, who famously appeared on the cover of Vanity

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Fair in twenty seventeen while dating Prince Harry, has yet

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to front a major high fashion magazine. Though she guest

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edited Vogue's September twenty nineteen issue, she chose not to

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appear on the cover herself. Her recent flurry of public appearances,

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including a high profile visit to Paris Fashion Week, a

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spring of charity events in the US, and a keynote

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appearance at Fortune's Most Powerful Women's Summit, had sparked rumors

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of a long anticipated Vogue cover, but insideers now say

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the magazine coup has gone instead. Two Harper's Bizarre following

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Meghan's meeting in Paris with its editor in chief Samira Naser.

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Photographs from the Balanciaga show captured the two women chatting warmly,

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prompting observers to note the visible satisfaction on Nazare's face

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at having secured what one called the Megan scoop. Sources

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close to the Duchess say her meetings with Vogue figures

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Anna Wintur and Chloe Malley were more about resetting screened

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relationships after an earlier falling out with former British Vogue

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editor Edward annenfall. Their clash, reportedly over editorial content and tone,

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cooled Meghan's standing in fashion circles. While the Harper's Bizarre

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cover could mark a new phase and what some have

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dubbed Megan three point zero, not everyone is convinced there's

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a clear plan behind her resurgence. One inside i told

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The Mail on Sunday her PR team are just putting

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her out there in a hopeful way without a plan.

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They aren't being discerning and protecting her from herself. It

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seems they think every media opportunity is a good one,

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and that's insane. There is no strategy here. One day

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she's in Paris positioning herself in the fashion world. Then

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she's in Washington as a female founder, but she's got

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nothing to launch, nothing to announce, and nothing to say.

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It's a mess. The Sussexes seem to be spiraling. They're

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throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. In

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the daily male Alison Boscheff adds that assessment may strike

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some as harsh, but the development of a coherent brand

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identity for Megan vital for success in this competitive, influencer

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driven market is shaky, to say the least. There is

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some confusion about whether Megan is selling herself as a cozy,

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jam making domestic goddess, a ball breaking corporate genius, or

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a sleek fashion easter, and dangerously without a product to

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sell and a branding direction to pursue, any publicity she

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engages in looks rather like publicity for publicity's sake. The

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obvious dissonance between Megan seeking this kind of attention and

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her husband, Prince Harry's desire for privacy need hardly be

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labored and they have it. If you'd like to email

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