Feb. 23, 2025

Meghan Markle is kinda like Nutella but not really - here's why

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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, compared herself to a jar of nutella in a social media post.

Meghan, who returned to Instagram this year, posted a photo featuring a white-framed collection of images and quotes, seemingly displayed in her Montecito home.

Also visible in the frame was the lighthearted remark, "You cannot make everybody happy, you’re not a jar of Nutella.”

Palace Intrigue Sources confirm that Queen Elizabeth II is indeed still dead.

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

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am your host, Mark Francis. Megan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex,

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compared herself to a jar of Natella in a social

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media post. Meghan, who returned to Instagram this year, posted

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a photo featuring a white framed collection of images and

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quotes seemingly displayed in her Montecito home. Among the curated

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images was an animated drawing of herself and Prince Harry,

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accompanied by words of encouragement and reflections that resonate with her.

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In the caption, Meghan wrote, from memory lane to the

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memories I'm making today a no to both the past

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and her current journey. Also visible in the frame were

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messages of self empowerment, including happiness looks good on you

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and the lighthearted remark you cannot make everybody happy. You're

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not a jar of Natella. As part of the post,

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the Duchess shared a carefully curated mood board featuring labels

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from her newly rebranded lifestyle brand, seemingly for her Raspberry Jam,

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alongside an array of sentimental touches, a watercolor painting of

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Meghan and Prince Harry, accompanied by their beloved rescue beagle Guy,

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who passed away earlier this year, was among the personal inclusions.

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Elsewhere on the board, images of fruit on toast, of

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smiling pancake, peacock flowers, and serene landscapes added to the esthetic.

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In a nostalgic nod to her now defunct lifestyle plug,

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The Tig. Megan also included a recipe for her signature drink,

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the Signature Tig Cup, a detail that longtime followers will

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recognized as a callback to her pre royal days. Some

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accused Meghan of copying Katherine, the Wonderful Princess of Wales.

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One social media user wrote, don't forget the real reason

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she posted that was to show Archie's artwork, since Catherine

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put out her kid's artwork the other day. She's so

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predictable as ever a copycat. In The Telegraph, Judith Woods wonders,

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is Megan ever going to have an original idea again?

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Judith writes, avocado's jam and a logo ripped from medieval Spain.

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The Duchess's latest reinvention is nothing if not predictable. As ever,

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it's a rebrand. It's lifestyle does it still revolve around jars,

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bespoke jam from a named strawberry plant. I have no idea.

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What I do know is that it's a painfully opposite

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summation of Megan's ill fated back of an envelope careers.

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It's fleeing these shores, the charity, the podcast, the philanthropy,

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the film productions, the whole American riview era orchard thing.

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Doomed as ever? Is it any wonder her latest lifestyle

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venture already looks set to end in toe curling failure. Sure,

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the former actress married into the most prestigious royal family

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on the planet. Yes, she was wed in the chapel

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at Windsor Castle, greeted on the Long March by throngs

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of smitten fans, and was treated with such gracious warmth

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by none other than the Late Queen herself. But that

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was then. Now post mesit with a lifestyle brand of flog.

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That's I've been airbrushed out. Why because she's just a

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girl standing in front of an Instagram asking the entire

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world to love her. Oh dear as ever, Meghan is

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reportedly feeling betrayed by David and Victoria Beckham, believing that

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the British royal family has stolen the celebrity couple from

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her and Prince Harry. According to Radar Online, the Duchess

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of Sussex is increasingly frustrated by the beckhams growing closeness

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to the Royals, particularly after their appearance at an exclusive

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black Tired dinner at High Grove House with King Charles Third.

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A source claimed it's brought back all her old recollections

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that she was treated badly by the Royals and the Beckhams,

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so this growing friendship is like a double blow for Meghan.

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The relationship between the Sussexes and the Beckhams has purportedly

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been strange since Meghan and Harry's twenty eighteen wedding, where

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David and Victoria were high profile guests. Meghan, a longtime

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admire of Victoria Beckham's fashion empire, had hoped to build

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a close friendship and even potential collaborations. However, tensions arose

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when Prince Harry allegedly suspected the beck of leaking information

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to the press, a claim that reportedly infuriated David, and

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Insider explained she thinks it was entirely reasonable for her

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to ask them about a possible media league and that

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David's reaction was totally over the top, and Harry agrees.

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They feel like they're rubbing their face in it by

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popping up at every Royal envelope opening. Compounding Meghan's frustration

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is Victoria's reported friendship with Catherine, the Wonderful Princess of Wales.

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It's been driving Megan bannanas hearing things like this, as

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it was supposed to be her texting Victoria from a

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fitting room, the source added, referring to claims that Victoria

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has been advising Kate on possible Vogue photoshoot. The alleged

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rift highlights Meghan's ongoing struggle to maintain a list of friendships,

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particularly as Hollywood's elite appear increasingly cautious about aligning themselves

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with the sussex'es amid their ongoing tensions with the royal family.

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While Meghan reportedly remains upset over the situation that Beckhams

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seem to have firmly repositioned themselves even with the royal circle,

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leaving the Sussexes further on the outside. As ever, Mindy

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Kayling has shared her experience filming with Love Meghan revealing

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the thoughtful hospitality of the Duchess of Sussex and the

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practical hosting tips she picked up along the way. In

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an interview with Time, Kayling recalled, I was on Maternity

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Live with my daughter in March. In April, and Meghan

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texted me that she was doing a show where she

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was going to cook for her friends. What I want

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to come into Montecito and have her cook for me.

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I wanted to get taken care of in that moment

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of my life. That was a fun maternity leave field trip.

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I left with a basket of fresh produce and homemade

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jam and hot sauce because she knew I loved hot sauce.

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She's a very generous woman who knew I needed a break.

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I love cooking, but I'm really not good at entertaining.

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I don't know anything about how you're supposed to use

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overhead lighting when people come over. You're supposed to use

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little lamps. But Megan just knows how to do that stuff.

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For kids' parties, I usually just go to the party's

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supply store and get paper things, which I don't judge,

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and neither she But it was fun to learn the

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simple ways to do a homemade kid's party. She also

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addressed common misconceptions of the Duchess, saying, I think a

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misconception about Meghan is that she's in any way fussy

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or has expectations of fancyness. She really is a down

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to earth person who knows a lot of fun tricks

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to make entertaining and cooking easier. Speaking at the Golden

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Globes last month, Kailing further praised Meghan's cooking skills. I

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think of myself as a kind of okay cook, but

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she unsurprisingly blew me out of the water. The thing

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about her recipes and being there was that it was

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just really accessible. She has a garden from scratch, which

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I could never do when chickens. They would probably all

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die if I tried to take care of chickens. With

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Love Megan premieres on March fourth, promising an intimate look

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at Meghan's love of cooking, entertaining, hosting friends, and of

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course well thought out, well received promotional blitz Pallace, Intrigua,

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Barret Back. It appears this podcast will have enough content

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to get us through until at least the summer of

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twenty twenty seven, as we're already filling out our editorial calendar.

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July twenty twenty seven should be all sorts of fun

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with Prince Harry's in Victor schemes set to her turn

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to the UK in that year. One storyline is whether

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Meghan will come. We'll tell you now she won't. But

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the timing of the event risks reigniting tensions with the

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royal family for another reason, as it will coincide with

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Queen Camiller's eightieth birthday on July seventeenth. Reports suggest King

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Charles's planning multiple events, including a Thanksgiving service at Saint

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George Chapel and Windsor to mark the milestone occasion. Royal

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commentator from Hardcastle said the arrival of Harry's bandwagon at

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the same time will be an unwelcome distraction. However, he

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is unlikely to lose sleep given his fractures relationship with

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his stepmother. Anyway, Meghan would love to come, but someone

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has to watch the kids and stuff, and you know

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how it is as ever, and they haven't pluck to

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