Aug. 27, 2025

Meghan Markle Uses Lilibet for Insta Promo, Disses Pantyhose, and Pushes a Fruit Spread

Meghan Markle Uses Lilibet for Insta Promo, Disses Pantyhose, and Pushes a Fruit Spread

Meghan Markle says royal life forced her into pantyhose “straight out of the ’80s” and admits she once drowned her sorrows with McDonald’s apple pies. Season 2 of With Love, Meghan serves up puff pastry, champagne, and talk of “authenticity” while critics remain unconvinced. Princess Lilibet makes a rare Instagram cameo kissing a photo of the family dog—just in time to plug Meghan’s new series. Meanwhile, Liz Jones calls Harry a “ginger ghost” and Meghan rolls out her latest As Ever drop: a fruit spread. Because why not.

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Caloroga Shark Media. He hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue Game,

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your host Mark Francis, The Duchess of Sussex, appears to

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have taken a fresh jab and her time within the

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royal family, suggesting the role required her to hide her

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voice and her personal style. Speaking with Bloomberg's Emily Chang

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over burghers and Beer, Meghan Markel reflected on the inauthentic

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nature of her time as a working royal, saying it

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was different several years ago where I couldn't be as

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vocal and I had to wear nude pantihose all the time.

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That felt a little bit inauthentic. I hadn't seen pantios

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since movies in the eighties. Meghan said she's now simply

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being herself, a theme running throughout the new season of

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a Netflix lifestyle series with Love Meghan. In one moment

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from the series, the Duchess admits she doesn't enjoyed baking,

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despite launching a line of pre measured mixes earlier this year.

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Meghan says, let's get out puff pastry ready. We're going

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to use pre made good puff pastry as opposed to

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making our dough from scratch. I love the idea of

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being able to rethink baking to be just a little

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more spontaneous. We learned that Meghan used to get apple

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pie's from McDonald's after failed acting auditions. She also recalls

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giving up her popular lifestyle blog The Tig before her

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engagement to Prince Harry, saying that as ever, her current

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lifestyle brand is a return to her authentic self. I

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haven't been able to share it with you in the

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same way for the past few years, she said, but

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now I can. While promoting the series, Meghan was asked

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whether she feels tension between her public image and her

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role as a duchess. She mostly sidestepped the question, noting

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only that she's excited about this chapter and prefers to

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remember our humanity amid political polarization. Chang referenced Meghan's twenty

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sixteen appearance on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, when

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the former actress described Trump as divisive and misogynistic and said,

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you don't really want that kind of world. But when

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asked whether she still feels compelled to speak out in

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such terms, Megan replied carefully, no, I just make a

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choice of what matters to me and what's important to me,

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and that was a different time in twenty sixteen. Certainly

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I haven't said anything political since twenty sixteen, which was

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well before I met my husband too. Change tried again,

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noting how politically charged the climate has become and how

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many are afraid to speak out, but Meghan continued to

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strike a neutral tone, saying, I think right now it's

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a really interesting time for the entire world. I just

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hope people are able to maintain the values that they

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feel are important to them and to feel safe. We

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are all human beings and should try to find a

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way to connect rather than divide. Still, she opened up

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in other ways, including about life at home with Prince

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Harry and their children, Archie and Lived. In one episode,

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she recalls being not well after spending nearly three weeks

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away from her children, a moment that may reference the

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death of Queen Elizabeth in twenty twenty two. Megan did

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not elaborate, but Prince Harry has previously written about that period.

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In his memoir Spare the Duchess describes Archie as the

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most tender, sweet child of all time, says Lilibet loves

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cheer seeds on her pancakes because they look like freckles,

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she was a reveal of the children are lobbying for

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a cat. Season two with Love Meghan includes a mix

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of guests from chrisy Tagan to John Legend and Chef

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Jose Andres, and features Megan crafting, baking with puff pastry,

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reminiscing about Deal or No Deal, and reflecting on her

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early acting struggles. In one segment, she makes a salad

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she calls a love letter to California. The Duchess also

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expresses a bit of fondness for the UK, saying she

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misses British radio stations, particularly Magic FM. Her children, she notes,

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have picked up both British and American pronunccess, though neither,

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she says, uses cooking terms because Papa's not cooking as much.

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Tom Sykes reviewed the new series in Royalist writing, Can

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anyone imagine a third season of We've Love Megan after this?

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The central conceit hasn't changed. We're meant to imagine we're

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inside Megan Markle's fancy home, sharing in her cooking and

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hosting rituals, but we're not. The locations are set dressed

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to look lived in, while the cameras cut away to

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exterior shots of manicured gardens, and even a sequence of

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Megan packing upstairs. The artifice gnaws away. It shows biggest weakness, inauthenticity,

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the episode's wabble between banal and baffling. One cooking party

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collapses under the weight of its own chaotic editing as

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pots move, dishes, vanished food drops on the floor, until

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we're left watching s'mores on a bonfire. Nobody looks good

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biting into molten marshmallow, no matter how soft the lands.

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In another section, Meghan confesses she doesn't way baking, which

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seems a crazy thing to admit, and cooking show. The

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guest appearances are super weird. Chrissy Tagan and Meghan exchange

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self satisfied notes about how far they have come since

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their days as briefcase girls on Deal or No Deal.

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Ten France from Queer Eye arrives after Meghan has spent

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what looks like about two hundred dollars on children's books

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for her new friend, only for them to greet each

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other with mutual so nice to meet you. Any pretense

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of warmth vanishes as the two strangers play confidence for

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the sake of forty minutes television, The attempt to cast

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Meghan as Martha Stewart lifestyle guru hasn't taken root. The

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camera can't fake warmth, and it can't bridge the gulf

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between the meganon screen and the Megan in real life.

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The truth is unavoidable. What began as a promise of

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glittering confection has ended up as just another tray of

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ready mixed Netflix filler. For The Daily Mail, Liz Jones writes,

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what did we learn from all eight episodes of season two?

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With Love Megan? Megan and eight lots of dates While pregnant?

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She has boxes of mac and cheese in her freezer.

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Harry hates cinnamon and lobster, and yet she still married him.

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She loves the McDonald's drive through apple pie and is

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triggered by a sink full of dirty dishes. She repeats

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the phrase so sweet often and seems warm with the

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crew I adore to the day drinking. There is nowhere

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she goes without a cup of champagne. So here, at

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last is the chink in her armor? Who wouldn't resort

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to alcohol? Given the headlines, the hate she alludes to

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the rumors and trolling obliquely even referring to an old

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canard that she'd had a child pre Harry. If I

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had kept a secret like that, that would have been impressive.

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Does Harry appear only in framed photographs, though we do

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see a baseball cap she had made for him to

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mark his fortieth. He's like a ginger ghost, however, haunting

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every scene. Megan also announced a restock of her as

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Ever lined via Instagram. Megan tells us, as ever, we

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keep growing and growing your favorite and more back, and

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we also celebrate the launch of season two with love Meghan.

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The post was accompanied by a glossy shot of Meghan

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and jeans and the buttoned down shirt watering greenery, her

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face turned away from the camera. This follows an earlier

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teaser showing crisps, sizzling and oil with the caption dare

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I say it's all that? And a bag of chips,

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nodding to a lion popularized by the Fresh Prince of

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bel Air. But the marketing push comes as sales of

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the twenty twenty four As of a Rose have been

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slow despite a similarly styled roll out. This year's vintage,

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released August fifth, has yet to sell out, Unlike the

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twenty twenty three edition, which disappeared within an hour. The

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minimum purchases three bottles at thirty dollars each, with added costs,

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pushing the lowest spend past one hundred and ten dollars.

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In an effort to boost interest, the brand recently posted

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a summary wine pouring clip hailing these drinkers Meghan's favorite

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poor more Palace in just a moment, Hey, don't forget

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to check out our new royal podcast called Crown and

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Controversy sort of takes off where the Crown the TV

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show left off. It's available every Sunday with new episodes.

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Check it out. Crown and Controversy. A new memoirle by

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former Royal butler Grant Harold, is stirring headlines and reportedly

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ruffling feathers within the Sussex camp. Harold, who served for

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years as a valet to then Prince Charles, Queen Camilla

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and Princess William and Harry, has released The Royal Butler,

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a behind the scenes look at royal life that ophecy

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notably glowing portrayal of the King. But one detail in

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particular has caught attention. Harold's insistence that William and Harry

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were happy about charles marriage to Camilla, directly contradicting Harry's

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own account In his memoir Spare the four of them,

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I promise you God on so well, Harold writes, I

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saw them having dinners together. I saw them having drinks together.

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I saw them going to parties together. Now, according to

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shut At Scoop Pallace, insiders believed the book may be

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more than just fond of recollections. It may be part

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of a strategic response. This is Charles hitting back. One

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insider told the outlet, Harold's book is a direct counterattack

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on Harry. It's basically saying, don't believe him, believe me.

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A friend of Harry's didn't hold back in their assessment,

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telling shut A Scoop he knows it's a takedown. This

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is the King using loyal old staff to trash historian

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make him look bitter and dishonest. The King and Queen

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have been continuing their annual summer retreat at Balmoral, joined

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by a number of senior family members in keeping with tradition.

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Among those making the trip to the Highlands are Prince

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Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. While it has now reported that

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Peter Phillips and his fiancee, Harriet Spurling, have also traveled north.

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The visit is particularly significant for miss Sperling, who is

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understood to be taking part in the so called Bow

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Moral Test, the informal right of passage for newcomers to

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the royal family, which you may remember from the Crown.

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A nurse by profession, Harriet has been spotted riding horses

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on the estate, enjoying excursions on electric mountain bikes with

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Zara Tyndall and children, and taking time to meet members

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of the royal family individually. The test itself has long

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been part of royal law. Princess Diana was said to

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have impressed both Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh

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doing her first stay, while other notable guests, including Scherie

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Blair and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson were reputed to

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have struggled. Royal commentator Omud Scobie once described the experience

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of a royal initiation, stressing that etiquette, adaptability and impeccable

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manners are essential. A source told the Son everyone knows

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Peter is smitten and his family have accepted Harriet into

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the setup, so she will likely pass the infamous bow

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moral test with flying colors, and they have it. Like

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