April 29, 2025

Meghan Markle gets new nicknames from Montecito Meanies

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In California’s sun-drenched enclave of Montecito, the knives are reportedly out for the Duchess of Sussex, as local society figures have given Meghan Markle a rather barbed new nickname. According to Mail columnist Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, some have taken to calling her “pumpkin spice” — and, more pointedly, “Walmart” — accusing the Duchess of selling out after a flurry of media and lifestyle ventures.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallace Intrigue. I

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am your host, Mark Francis in California. As a son

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drenched enclave of Montecito, the knives are reportedly out for

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the Duchess of Sussex, as local society figures have given

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Megan Mirkle a rather barbed new nickname. According to male

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columnist Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, some have taken to calling her

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Pumpkin Spice and more appointedly Walmart, accusing the duchess of

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selling out after a flurry of media and lifestyle ventures.

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One well placed Montecito resident reportedly remarked, she had this

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incredible opportunity to be the first black woman to marry

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into the royal family and make her mark us a

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shee can charming revolutionary. She's so obsessed with bees, why

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couldn't she stay in the family and make honey with

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King Charles Bees? He loves that stuff. Former Vanity Fair

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editor Tina breat I don't observe that Meghan appears to

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be aiming for a sort of instant Beyonce or instant

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Sheelle Obama, but doesn't want to put in the years

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to build the foundation those women have. The as ever

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launch featured six pound raspberry jam, eleven pound edible flower sprinkles,

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and twenty one pound wildflower honey products that sold out

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within minutes, but not without critique. Restauranteur Jamison Stocks described

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the offerings as geared towards the elite, calling the pricing extreme.

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The Netflix series, meanwhile, was panned by some critics. One

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reviewer called it a Montecito ego trip not worth taking,

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while another dismissed it as a ghastly artifact of a

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particular cultural error that recently met its apocalypse. The Telegraph

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described it as an exercise in narcissism, filled with extravagant brunches,

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celebrity pals and business plugs. Her podcast has fared no

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better in critical circles. The Times referred to it as

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Meghan's vapid Lessons and self Love, while The Guardian dubbed

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it stomach turning and sickaphantic. We'll have our weekly recap

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of Meghan's podcast out later today. We listen so you

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don't have to. Meghan Sussex appears to have served up

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a helping of subtle shade, getting a jar of her

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new as Ever Jam to a rather unexpected recipient, ITV

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Weather presenter Alex Beresford. The gesture has been widely interpreted

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as appointed, if understated response to longtime critic Piers Morgan.

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Mister Morgan, the former Good Morning Britain host, has been

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openly hostile towards the Duchess for years, recently describing her

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Netflix series With Love Meghan as unwatchable. The saga between

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Morgan and Sussex has reached its crescendo in twenty twenty one,

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when he famously stormed off SAT following a heated exchange

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with Beresford, who accused him on air of trashing Megan.

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Morgan resigned from the program later that day. Now nearly

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four years on, the Duchess has sent Beresford a jar

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of her luxury Raspberry Preserve, part of her newly launched

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as Ever brand, as well as a soft jellycat octopus

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toy for his newborn daughter. Beresford shared the gifts on Instagram,

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writing can't wait to try this. Thank you so much

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at Megan. The post caught the attention of Morgan himself,

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who took on social media in the early hours of

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Friday morning, sharing a headline, which read Megan trolls Piers

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Morgan by sending as ever jam and cuddly toys a

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very surprising recipient. His response a line of laughing emojis

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followed by the words, oh no, how will I ever

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survive this brutal blow. Tina Brown shared thoughts about the

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Royals with the Telegraphs, saying the Queen managed her own

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death was such a plum. Every CEO should figure out

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how to go like she went. She planned her entire

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exit so there would be a minimum of bad drama.

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I wouldn't be at all surprised if she didn't think

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I'll see in Liz Truss, I'll kiss off Boris Johnson

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and I'll stop taking my meds. Because it was just

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so perfect. Everything about that managed death reassured the public.

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The procession of that coffin, the way it was flown back,

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the sight of Princess Anne with it. Charles impeccably took over.

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God knows, the man had been in training for fifty years.

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He was flawless, except for a tiny slip over his

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found and pen. You couldn't fault it. Because of that,

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the country changed errors. It was a beautiful transition. He

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had a lot of luck because the whole debucle of

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Boris Johnson and Trust left him as the great statesman

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of England. Suddenly Charles was the most senior measured statesman

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in Europe. He had become seen as that everybody wanted

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to say the House of Windsor was going to blow up.

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But compared to a great many things, the House of

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Windsor is on pretty steady footing. She also had nice

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things to say about Harry. There was still a Harry

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shaped hole in the Royal family. But I don't think

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that hole is going to close. It's a pity because

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that's all they lack. That bit of sizzle coming out

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that side. Sizzl Margaret provided for the Queen is actually

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very good for a royal family because it takes the

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pressure off William and Catherine to have to be perfect,

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which is very boring for them. What's unfortunate is that

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Harry is the most talented in the family that human relations,

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like his mother. Unfortunately, his appetite their appetite for money

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made him make disastrous decisions. The disastrous decision of the

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book was very hard to return from. I think the

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Oprah Winfrey interview was the most gratuitously stupid move. There

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wasn't any money in it. The relationship between the brothers

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sounded like it was very hard to repair. I think

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Harry would make it up, but I don't think William can.

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As for Meghan, Tina adds, I think Suits in the

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Tig was the last time she felt successful. It's all

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been hallish ever since. Every week she announces a new project.

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Stop announcing projects. She's almost compulsive about announcing things, and

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they don't really happen. They fade and she looks ridiculous.

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I feel sorry for her because she's so lost. I

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think Harry's a talent that's worth more than that. I

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hope he gets a life back. He really knows how

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to play the role of the prince. I think he

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really likes it. That's what's so ironic. For a bit,

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he thought he didn't because the palace is boring and

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oppressive and so on. Now he has had a few

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years doing it without them. I think he really misses

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being a prince because he was good at it. He

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and Meghan talk about doing good, but what good are

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they doing. The good you can do as a royal

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is so much more potent when Diana took the hands

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of the AIDS patient without gloves, when royals always wore

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gloves before. How much more potent was that she was

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a princess then if she'd simply been a celebrity Royal

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etes about Hugo, Vickers said, the quiet part out loud.

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Many people predict that someday Harry will find himself divorced

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and returning back home. On The Sun's Royal Exclusive show,

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Vickers said, I think they're always at a crisis point

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because they've left the Royal family. The Royal Family are

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working for the United Kingdom Commonwealth, whereas they've taken the

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celebrity route, which means they have to completely reinvent themselves

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the whole time to keep in front of the public.

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They're always changing direction. Therefore they must always be at

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a crisis point. I have a feeling that the story

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is going to end badly, certainly from Prince Harry. I

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don't see it lasting. I mean I don't wish, but

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people actually always act in character. I mean, I'm a

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biographer rather than a journalist, so I look at how

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people deal with their lives, and she's dumped her father,

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her first husband, Jessica mulroney, the entire British Royal family.

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Royal commentator Bronti Coy added, I sort of get the

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impression that Harry would be really happy to just sort

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of be surfing and some charity duties every once in

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a while, but that's clearly not Megan's focus, and that

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in itself is a relatively relatable issue when couples reach

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those points where they're branching off with different goals for

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their long term future. Megan wants to be a billionaire celebrity.

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I think Harry appears to be happy to just do

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a few charity engagements and focus on things that he

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likes more palacin just the moment. Annabelle Elliott, the younger

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sister of Queen Camilla, has revealed she finds it impossible

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to curtsey to her elder sibling. Despite Camilla's two decades

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of royal service and her current role as Queen Consort,

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the tradition of curtseying till the monarch remains an enduring

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symbol of respect, though Buckingham Palace notes there is no

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obligation to do so for women. The custom involves a

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small curtsy for men a simple nod of the head.

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Though the practice has relaxed over the years, many still

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choose to observe it. Miss Elliott, however, says she cannot

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bring herself to Curtsey. To her sister, I think she's

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transitioned beautifully, actually, she said, I mean time look at

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her and I can't really believe it. And there you

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