June 27, 2025

Meghan Markle Under Fire: Pregnancy Conspiracy Theories + American Riviera Orchard Wine Launch Controversy

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Explosive episode covering the vicious campaign against Meghan Markle, including "moonbump" pregnancy conspiracy theories and coordinated online attacks. Royal experts predict declining Sussex income as Harry's role questioned in Montecito. We reveal Meghan's evening wine ritual, children selling vegetables at farmers market, and her friendship with Tyler Perry amid his $260M sexual assault lawsuit. Plus, jam expert slams Meghan's "failed" fruit spread and the controversial rosé wine launch date coinciding with Princess Diana's birthday.

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

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am your host, Mark Rancis. In the Newsweek, Christopher Boozy

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rides under the headline the vicious campaign against Meghan Michael

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must end per a Boozy. When Meghan Michael posted a

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lighthearted video of herself dancing in a hospital room while

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nine months pregnant, she probably thought she was sharing a

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relatable moment that other mothers would appreciate. Instead, within hours,

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online trolls and conspiracy theorists weaponized it as proof she

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was never pregnant at all. This nightmare is what Meghan's

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life has become. Every joyful moment gets twisted into ammunition

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by people who've made destroying her their full time job.

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And we need to talk about what this sustained cruelty

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has done to a woman whose only crime was falling

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in love with the Prince. The moon pump spiracy, which

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claims Megan faked both pregnancies with prosthetic bellies, represents a

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special kind of cruelty. This is a normal criticism. It's

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psychological torture designed to break someone's spirit. And the worst part,

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these aren't random acts of cruelty. They're coordinated, monetized, and

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amplified by people who profit from Meghan's pain. YouTube channels

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devoted entirely to proving Megan's pregnancies were fake, generating millions

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of dollars. British tabloids have built entire business models around

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tearing Megan apart, knowing that her name on a negative

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headline guarantees clicks and sales. Social media influencers discover that

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attacking Megan drives more engagement than any other content they produce.

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Hatred hasn't just become a business model, it's become an

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entire industry, with Megan's suffering as its most profitable product.

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But the attacks don't stop with Megan. Anyone who dares

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to publicly defend her becomes a target themselves. The message

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is clear, support Megan Markel and we'll come for you too.

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The goal isn't just to hurt Megan, it's to isolate

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her completely. They want her to look around and see

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her allies, no defenders, no one willing to brave the

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storm to stand with her. Royal expert Hugo Vickers tells

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the Sun nothing surprises me, and I mean she said

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something about broadening out and coming out of the kitchen

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and into the drawing room with something. I don't know

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what she's going to do next, endless things. The problem

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with her is that she's gone down this celebrity route,

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taking Prince Harry with her. Celebrities have to keep reinventing

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themselves the whole time to keep in front of the media.

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I predict at some point the world will actually get

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bored with Megan Mikael because she's not going to come

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out with anything new. Eventually she'll run out of new

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things to come out with. Then the world can get

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on with more interesting things. Royal commentator Emily Andrews, speaking

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in a new documentary, has raised questions about Prince Harry's

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day to day contribution to life in Montecito. Megan gets

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up at half six, half an hour before the children,

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and the children get up and she gets them dressed,

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gets their breakfast, and then makes their packed lunch and

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takes them to Kindie. Then at nine o'clock she sits

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down and is a girl boss. Whereas Harry and all

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of this, he's not making money, he's not looking after

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the kids. What is Harry doing? She asks Royal author

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Norman Baker adds, there's no doubt in my mind that

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Meghan and Harry's income is going to decline in the future.

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It's declining now. They've done the big hits that they

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could do. They've done the big Spotify event, they've done

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the big book. There is nothing else to come, nothing

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else to sell apart from themselves. Meghan's evening routine includes

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a glass of wine. Some more tidbits from her podcast

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appearance last week, we learned that Meghan and the children

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have been selling fruit and vegetables from the family's mont

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to seat her garden at a local farmer's market in California. Interestingly,

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this seems to have gone without the paparazzi noticing a

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feat in itself. Meg's explained that the weekend stall is

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meant to teach the youngsters the value of money and

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hard work. There's a cost and a price for things,

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and I think that's key for children to understand, especially

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children who are very lucky to have a home that

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has privilege. You need to know that, just like manners

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taking care of things around you, there is a value

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on things. The Duchess of Selling also shared one of

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her own end of day rituals, the kids are in

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bed by around seven, I go downstairs, have a glass

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of wine and pare their lunch. I find joy in it.

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It can be therapeutic. That for me is one of

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my simple pleasures. Royal expert Jenny Bond floated the notion

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that maybe she wouldn't even consider Megan to be royal,

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telling The Mirror she is someone they knew for a

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very brief period of time. I don't think Megan forged

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a meaningful relationship with any of the royal family except

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obviously her husband, and so I think she is viewed

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as irrelevant by most of the family. She is now

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clearly carving out her own path as an influencer and

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would be entrepreneur. To be successful in these fields, she

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needs publicity. That's the name of the game, and so

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she is pumping out as much content as possible. It's

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all about cliques and followers, which in turn bring money.

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I don't think there's even the remotest possibility that she

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would either want to return to life as a working

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royal or that she would be welcomed back. She's making

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her own way in life and that's absolutely fine, good

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for her, But personally, I would find it laughable even

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to consider her as royal. Hers was but a brief

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flirtation with a world she knew nothing about, and which

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she very quickly decided she didn't like. I hope she's

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hugely successful in her new ventures. She's working hard. She

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deserves to do well. More palace in just a moment.

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Harry and Meghan were criticized for not commenting on the

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civil lawsuit filed last week against their friend and Lilibet's godfather,

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Tyler Perry. Actor Derek Dixon is seeking two hundred and

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sixty million dollars in damages, alleging mister Perry subjected him

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to sexual harassment and assault while he was working on

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the Beet dramas Ruthless and The Oval. Mister Perry's lawyer,

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Matthew Boyd, has dismissed the claims a scam and says

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the producer is confident it will be promptly disproven. The

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billionaire filmmaker famously opened his Los Angeles home to the

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Sussexes when they first arrived in California in twenty twenty,

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later describing the period as a very difficult time for

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them and saying he had watched them endure things that

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would have broken a lot of people. In twenty twenty two,

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he praised the couple on social media, writing I have

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had front row seats in your life for the past

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few years. I am so incredibly proud to see how

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happy you, your husband, and your kids are now. Royal

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commentator Samara Gills tells The Son the lawsuit poses a

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fresh reputational headache. There's nothing very Christian about a sexual

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assault claim. I think it's just one other damaging thing

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to add to their now war chest of problems. Just

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watch how quickly they go. She argues. The allegations show

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the type of people that Megan likes to surround herself

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with and is damaging to their brand yet again. Pallace

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watchers note that and he perceived distancing from mister Perry

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could be complicated by his long standing personal support and

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his prominent role as Princess Lilibet's godfather. Jam specialist Don

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Collins tells The Daily Mail, it's a real disappointment that

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Megan is selling a fruit spread, which is what you

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make when your jam fails. In the jam industry, a

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spread is what we call something that didn't work. It

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can have the best ingredients. But if I had a

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jam that was too runny, I'd slap a label on

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it and call it a spread. There's no excuse for this.

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It should be perfect, she said, adding that the use

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of conventionally grown apricots, which we'll have used pesticides, runs

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counter to the premium image of the brand. And why

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is she using pectin, which is a gelling agent, unless

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it's because her spread was too runny. Most spreads don't

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use pectin. The Apricot spread, available either as a single

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jar or a fourteen dollar keepsake packaging, sold out within minutes,

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much as the Raspberry version did on its debut earlier.

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The Spring Colins speculated that rapid sellouts may simply reflect

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limited production runs. Her Apricots spread sold out in minutes.

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It's like her earlier Raspberry spread, which may mean they

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only made a small batch. I don't know who's making

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a spread. We all know it's not Meghan. Sounds like

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they really don't know what they are doing. Supporters of

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the Duchess of Spreads received a charming think you on Instagram,

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only for some to spot an unintended extra detail. On

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as Ever's official feed, Meghan shared a photograph said to

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have been taken in her Montecito kitchen, flower dusted eggs

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and time sprigs surrounded a handwritten card reading your beautiful

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full Stop. Followers, however, noticed the faint outline of a

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mouse cursor hovering over Meghan's hand in the lower left corner,

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suggesting the image may have been captured from a computer

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screen rather than shot directly. Meghan is under fire after

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announcing that a rose wine from her as Ever lifestyle

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Lion will launch on the first of July, what would

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have been the sixty fourth birthday of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Rail commentator Victoria Arborter wrote on x July first, Diana's Birthday,

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while other social media users questioned whether the chosen date

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was a thoughtful tribute or an ill judge marketing ploy.

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