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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pounds Inentury Go.
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I am your host. Mark Francis, the Duchess of Sussex,
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has firmly rejected an anonymous allegation that she kept a
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design address without permission following it photo shoot. The claim
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had resurfaced at the weekend after Megan appeared in a
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promotional video for her forthcoming Netflix holiday special wearing an
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emerald green Galvin Yuschwei gown, the same dress she wore
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during a twenty twenty two shoot. In a statement to
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The Daily Express, Megan's official spokesperson said, the insinuation that
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any items were taken without the full knowledge and agreement
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of the onset stylists or their respective teams is not
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only categorically false, but also highly defamatory. Any items kept
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were done so in total transparency and in accordance with
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contractual arrangements. Industry figures noted that it is common practice
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for high profile individuals, including members of the royal family,
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to retain certain items from photoshoots to prevent pieces later
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being resold or used in unauthorized auctions. When source described
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the practice as both commonplace and prudent, particularly in cases
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where items linked to royal figures can command substantial sums.
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The Duchess offered a glimpse into her morning routine with
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Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet while sharing her advice for
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hosting overnight guests. In a video released on her as
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Ever Instagram account, Megan encouraged viewers to create stations so
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guests can serve themselves. She was seen decanting her brand's
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raspberry preserve into glass jars before assembling a yogurt par
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fay layered with raspberries, blueberries and honey. Yes, you could
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do a yogurt par fay in a normal bowl, or
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you could just make it a little more special, she said,
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adding all of this is great for kids. Moving to
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a serving board of breakfast waffles, Meghan added cream and
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a spoonful of as Ever strawberry jam, calling the flavor
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a favorite in her home. Waffles have long been a
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Sussex family staple. Following a thoughtful gift sent by the
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late Queen Elizabeth, said to a great grandson Archie. In
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the twenty twenty one interview with James Corden, Prince Harry recalled,
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my grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas, and
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Meg said, a waffle maker. She said, a waffle maker
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for Archie. He explained. Meghan makes a beautiful organic mixture
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for the machine and then their son loves it, saying
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Archie wakes up in the morning and goes waffle. The
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same gift reappeared earlier this year, when Meghan made green
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waffles for Saint Patrick's Dane, shaping blueberries kiwi and whipped
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cream into a smiling face for Archie and Lillabet. The
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Duchess has frequently shared glimpses of these family rituals. Her
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Netflix series With Love Meghan, released in March. Or Who,
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depicts her approach to home cooking and entertaining. In one ep,
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So Does, she prepared a breakfast for Tata. She said,
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I wake up every morning and I really take a
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lot of pride in making breakfast for my family. The
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children were further used as promotional videos. Just ahead of Thanksgiving,
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Harry and Meghan made a pre Thanksgiving visit to Our
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Big Kitchen, Los Angeles, bringing along Prince Archie and Princess
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little Bit for a day of volunteer work. The family
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joined the Archwall team in preparing and packaging meals for
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food in secure residents, with Archie and Lily scene helping
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roll dow and assemble meals. Pictures somehow made their way
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to People magazine, albeit none provided a clear look at
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the faces of the kids. In The Royalist, Tom Sykes writes,
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the kids appear in the now familiar format backs to
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the camera, faces obscured, a little bit turned in three
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quarter profile, always just out of reach, but never actually private.
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It's the same routine every time Megan shows the children
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but not really reveals them, but not quiet, and pretend
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to be actively protecting them from media intrusion while still
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using them to market the Sussex brand in the media.
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The actual aim of this charade cannot be to keep
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their identities private, because between the various angles glimpses, birthday shots,
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accidentally on purpose leaks, and cutesy Instagram stories, any normal
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human brain, never mind AI, can reconstruct their faces without
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breaking a sweat. At the risk of stating the screamingly obvious,
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if you really didn't want your children's likeness, knowing, you
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wouldn't put their images on the Internet. But that's the point.
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Their images aren't being withheld for privacy they're being managed
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for value. I'm now convinced that the fake private esthetic,
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the grainy hands, the backs of heads, the half faces,
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the heavy cropping is just an incredibly cynical marketing strategy.
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It allows Megan to posture as a hyperprotective mother while
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still releasing images for kids as content ahead of the holiday.
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On Thursday, the Dutchess posted as on Instagram story showing
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herself mixing seasonings in a bowl and rubbing the mixture
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onto raw turkey. She captured the clip let the game begin,
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set it to Bob Dylan's turkey Chase, added a turkey
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emoji and wrote get it hashtag mum jokes. However, a
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number of viewers took issue with the fact that she
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appeared to prepare the raw bird while still wearing a
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gold bracelet and ring and without gloves. The backlash unfolded
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on social media, including a Reddit thread titled Samonella Sussex,
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when user wrote, she has the worst kitchen hygiene. The
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domestic goddess is clueless. The more she pretends to be
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a cook, the more fake she shows herself to be
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jewelry rubbing up against the meat, hair shedding in her
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grubby paws stroking the poor dead bird. Another commenter wrote, Lordie,
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she so obviously knows absolutely nothing about cooking or how
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to work in a kitchen. For the safety of humanity,
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keep her out of the kitchen. Another person claimed, aside
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from the hair, jewelry and bare hands all over that turkey,
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it's astonishing how she also had her damn forearms then
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across the body of the turkey. At times she might
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have well been naked and rubbing the darn thing all
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over herself. What an idiot. That's such a treat she
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is getting called out like this more palasy, just a moment.
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Royal expert Jenny Bond says not to blame Meghan for
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introduction gait. Bond tells The Express it sounds so absurd
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given the context that this was the second time the
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interviewer was meeting Megan, and the first have been so
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relatively informal, sharing burger and chips at a restaurant, Bond said,
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per The Daily Express, So I suspect that this was
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simply a house manager getting overly pompous about the fact
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that there was a duchess in the house. Americans standing
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get very excited about titles. The expert added, it simply
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doesn't sound like the huggy, friendly Megan we see portrayed elsewhere,
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so I don't think we should start criticizing Meghan for this.
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Megan's latest business move has been to draw mixed reactions
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after the Duchess of Sussex revealed that her as Ever
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products are now being sold at Soho Home in West Hollywood,
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part of the private members club Soho House. In a
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video posted to Instagram, Meghan was seen looking over her
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items on display, including her honey and fruit spreads. Critics
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online were swift to question the collaboration. One user wrote
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on x if she was smart, she would open an
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as Ever store boutique somewhere, have a real website, and
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actually work at the store. These pop ups or renting
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space in a store or in Soho House is lame
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and cop out because she has nothing to do with
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actually selling these products. She always takes the easy way,
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or she cuts corners or cuts out before the fail
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is flashing in red lights. So her house holds a
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notable place in the couple's relationship and spare Prince Harry
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recalled their first date at the London site on Dean Street,
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writing red cheeked, puffing sweaty. Half an hour late, they
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ran into the rest front, into the quiet room and
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found her sitting in a small area on a low
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velvet sofa in front of a low coffee table. New
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figures show as Ever is still far behind Gwyneth Paltrow's
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Goop in overall traffic. According to the analytics platform similar Web,
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as Ever recorded one hundred ninety six thousand visits in
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October compared to eight hundred twelve thousand for Goop. They're
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translated to about seven hundred and fifty thousand page views
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for Megan's brand versus two point three million for Poultrows.
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A Sussex source told Newsweek there was a spike in
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as Ever sales in November leading up to Thanksgiving, adding
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that everybody's really pleased that some of the gremlines that
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were there at the start that are inevitable with any
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new business seemed to have been ironed out now as
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it related to things like supply chain, production, scalability, that
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sort of thing. It all seems to be in a
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pretty good place now, but it's still a young business.
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There's still and always will be room for improvement, but
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it's going really, really well. It's starting to find its
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stride now. The duchess is now offering a leather bookmark
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sold alongside her as ever Honey at Godmother's bookshop in California.
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Images shared on Instagram showed the bookmark clipped to an
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illustrated book. The text reads fell Asleep here, but the
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cursive lettering left many struggling to decipher it. When social
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media user wrote, I literally can't read what the bookmark says.
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Another commented, I am not even kidding a little. What
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does it say? I cannot read that chicken scratch. A
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further critic said, I swear her writing is getting worse.
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I can barely read it. That should be packaged with
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a book no. Another added, what does a bookmark have
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to do with honey? The last thing I do while
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I'm reading is use honey. I don't want sticky pages.
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Some question the choice of item altogether. Referencing Megan's recent
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Bloomberg interview. One user noted Meghan admitted to Emily Chang
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that she doesn't even read. How can she promote a bookstore?
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