Feb. 3, 2026

Meghan Markle Mocked for Audrey Hepburn Look as Harry Bristles Over Social Media and Spotlight

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Meghan Markle faces fresh online ridicule after unveiling a new black-and-white image for her As Ever brand, with critics accusing her of cosplaying Audrey Hepburn — and others comparing her to Inspector Gadget. Prince Harry is also mocked after being announced as a keynote speaker at a major privacy conference, fueling questions about his standalone appeal. Behind the scenes, sources say tensions are flaring again over Meghan’s social media posts featuring glimpses of their children, reopening old wounds about privacy and control. Commentators pile on claims that Meghan is copying Princess Catherine’s fashion playbook, while PR experts argue Harry is stuck between duty and Hollywood, struggling to manage optics in a world that doesn’t allow selective visibility.

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Calorogus Shark Media, Hello Long and welcome through Palace Intrigue

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Megan Markle has attracted online criticism after posting a new

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black and white photograph on the website for her lifestyle

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brand as Ever, with some commentators accusing her of cosplaying

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as Audrey Hepburn. The image shows Megan holding a folded

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white sheet of paper bearing the brand's name. She is

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wearing a patent close style bucket hat, dark sunglasses, and

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a light three quarter sleeve top. Accompanying the photograph is

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a message describing the brand as more than a brand,

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It's a love language, and explaining that as Ever is

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inspired by Marko's interest in cooking, entertaining, and hosting. On

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social media, critics quickly drew comparisons between the look and

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that of Audrey Hepburn in the nineteen sixty one film

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Several users described the image as an

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attempt to emulate Hatburn's style, with some calling it the

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resemblance unflattering or poorly executed, and one calling it delusional,

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beyond or comprehension. Another user had a different take, posting

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now just copying inspector gadget it's fulling no one wearing

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the same hat, except that birds have used for target practice.

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Meghan isn't alone in being mocked. Harry has been confirmed

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as a keynote speaker of the International Association of Privacy

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Professional's Global Summit. One user wrote, wonder how many empty

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seats there'll be. Another commented they must be really short

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of speakers to resort to Harry. There continues to be

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reports that Harry does not enjoy Megan's social media Sources

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to a Radar Online that the couple is at war

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all over again after Megan shared a series of Instagram

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stories showing moments of family life involving their children. The

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clips included partial views of the children swimming, visiting a zoo,

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and spending time outdoors in California. Princery and Meghan are

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reportedly facing renewed internal tensions over the public visibility of

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their children. According to an exclusive report from Radar Online.

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One source told them this issue has reignited tensions that

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Harry thought they had already worked through. From his point

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of view, it feels like they're right back in conflict

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mode because Meghan continues to move forward exactly as she

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always has. Harry sees it as a familiar pattern of

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pushing boundaries and testing the limits, particularly around how much

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of their children's lives are shared. For him, it isn't

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just about a few posts. It's about a deeper disagreement

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over privacy that he keeps resurfacing. According to the report,

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Prince Harry remains deeply uncomfortable with any online exposure of

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his children, even when images are brief or carefully curated.

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Sources said he believes it once content is shared publicly,

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control over how it circulates is effectively lost. Meghan, by contrast,

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is said by insiders to view the posts as intentional

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and harmless, believing that sharing limited glimpses of her own

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terms allows her to shape her family's narrative after years

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of unwonted media intrusion. In The Express, Alicia Liberty suggests

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Meghan copied Kate's fashion style three times last week. Liberty writes,

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Megan Michael's recent royal wardrobe choices feel calculated rather than coincidental,

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marked by a new level of restraint. As a royal

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fashion expert, what strikes me most isn't simply what she's

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wearing but who she appears to be copying. This isn't

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imitation for novelty's sake, It's a strategic repositioning. Over the

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past year of watched Princess Catherine double down on a

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disciplined heritage led esthetic, rich fabrics, controlled silhouettes, and the

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polish that quietly signals her future as queen. So when

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Meghan stepped out days later at the Cookie Queen's premiere

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in Salt Lake City wearing a Hidi Merrick coat in

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a strikingly similar color family, the parallels were impossible to ignore.

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The look was clean, tailored, and deliberately restrained, a sharp

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departure from the laid back California style that Dutchess has

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favored since stepping back from royal life. Instead, it felt

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firmly rooted in the fashion language Catherine now owns, while

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also echoing the heritage outerwear Zara Tyndall has been championing.

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All winter hair too, told its own story and its

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spoke volumes. I couldn't ignore how Meghan's sleek, smoothed out

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styling cuts sharply against the loose, undone waves that have

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defined her post maxid image. This level of polish is

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unmistakably Princess Catherine territory controlled glossy hair that frames the

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face and never distracts from the message. Catherine has long

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understood that restraint signals confidence, which is why Meghan's sudden

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embrace of the same aesthetic feels deliberate rather than experimental.

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Brown has quietly become Princess Catherine's power color, worn on

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Christmas Day and repeatedly through twenty twenty five. It's a

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shade's transformed into shorthand for modern royal authority. Meghan stepping

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into that same palette tells me she's paying close attention

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to what now carries weight in royal fashion optics. So

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is Meghan returning to her pre royal polish. To me,

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she's clearly copying the visual framework Princess Catherine had spent

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years perfecting. Pr Expert Rea Freeman told The Daily Express

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that Prince when Tarry appears caught between two narratives. Freeman

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said publicly, he remains closely associated with remembrance, service and duty. Privately,

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he is operating in a Hollywood environment where visibility is

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part of the transaction. From a brand standpoint, this halfway

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house is the problem Hollywood does not operate on selective anonymity.

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Presence impliers consent. Once you step into those rooms, control

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over image becomes shared, not personal. Attempts to row back

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afterwards can come across as awkward rather than principled. The

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discussion follows Kim Kardashian's remarks on the Chloe in Wonderland podcast,

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where she addressed the decision to remove photographs of Harry

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and Meghan from social media. We were told that it

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was totally cool to post, Kardashian said, and then after

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it was posted, I think they realized it was Remembrance

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Day and they didn't want to be seen at a party,

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even though it's already up or Pallas, it just a

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moment finding harmony. A King's Vision will begin streaming on

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Prime Video on February sixth. According to Christina mun chief

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executive of the King's Foundation, the documentary reveals a side

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of the Monarch not often seen in official settings. She said,

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you do get to see him as quite an informal

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person telling you about what he believes in, which is

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not how we town to normally see him. Miss Murran

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also described working with the King in personal terms, calling

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him very funny and a joy to work with. She

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added that she hoped audiences would experience what those within

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the Foundation regularly see in more relaxed environments. Explaining what

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distinguishes him from others in positions of influence, she said,

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he has no agenda, He doesn't need any of those things.

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His only a gender is to help. Looking ahead to

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the days of King William, one name increasingly mentioned is

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his cousin, Zara Tindall. Although she has never held a

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royal title and has never sought one for herself or

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her husband, former England at Rugby International Mike Tindall, Zara

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has long been seen as effective at the informal public

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facing work, often described as royal soft power. Writing in

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Women and Home magazine, Royal editor Emily Andrews said, under

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King William, I could even see Zara being handed the

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patronage of the Royal stud in Sandringham, plus Royal racing

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at Cheltenham and Ascot. The idea has also been endorsed

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by former BBC Royal correspondent Jenny Bond, who told Okay

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magazine there will be so many demands on William's time

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when he is king that I think it's a brilliant idea.

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If the reports are to be believed, that he might

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hand over racing matters to Tsara. Like her mother, she

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lives and breathes horses. She's also extremely glamorous and well liked,

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and it would be a perfect fit. Princess Anne has

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politely declined an invitation to learn how to rap. Brishma Assar,

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an English teacher at the Royal Russell School in Croyden

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and the founder of rap Therapy, was made an MBE

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for services to education and mental health awareness during an

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investiture at Saint James Pallace where the honor was presented

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by Princess Anne. Assar explained that he described his work

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to the Princess Royal, outlining how RAP Therapy encourages young

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people to write lyrics focused on specific emotions to help

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them understand process their feelings. During the conversation, he jokingly

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suggested that he could teach her how to rap. According

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to USA, the Princess had declined in characteristically direct fashion,

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replying that she used to sing and that is about it,

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