March 24, 2025

Meghan Markle's new title might be “the Duchess of Disasters”

Meghan Markle's new title might be “the Duchess of Disasters”

Back home in Sussex, where Meghan is the Duchess, locals are questioning her authenticity.

Colin Hall told MAIL Online:   "If she's going to claim the title then she should have more connection with the place." He suggested that she could "get...

Back home in Sussex, where Meghan is the Duchess, locals are questioning her authenticity.

Colin Hall told MAIL Online: "If she's going to claim the title then she should have more connection with the place." He suggested that she could "get involved in a children's charity or do something else worthwhile in the county," adding, "Simply adopting Sussex as a surname to use to your own ends is cynical."

His brother Jeff shared, "I'm sure the Sussex title is a very lucrative thing to have and, having married into the Royal Family, she should be able to use it." "One visit in eight years isn't really good enough. She should come more often to earn the right to use the name."

One possible title for Meghan might be “the Duchess of Disasters”

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Calorogus. Shark Media had lo and welcome through Palace Intry

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Game your host Mark Francis, writing for I Knew This,

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Sophie Morris tried some of Meghan Sussex's recipes. Sophie writes,

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I tried out Meghan's party sandwiches. They're fun and predictably

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easy to make, though I doubt many people risk peanut

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butter at a kid's party these days because of allergies.

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Nor do I recommend sprinkling children's food in dried flowers.

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If children spot a speck of something unrecognizable on an

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otherwise lovely heart shaped sandwich, you might have a toddler

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tantrum on your hands. The cooking part of this lifestyle

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show is pure California and alluring dose of garden bounty

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source from the house rented for the shooters, wells her

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own huge garden, freshly laid eggs, a blot of citrus,

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and harvest gift baskets. There is a fair amount of

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la chat from being present to elevating the ordinary, if

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not making the ordinary extraordinary. There are chefs, but no

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chefy techniques. There are glorious ingredients, but no showy excess.

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This is quite luxury broadcast at a deafening pitch still,

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there's nothing I wouldn't want to make or eat myself.

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I kick off with her single skillet spaghetti, a ditch

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of tomatoes, garlic spaghetti charred. It's undeniably welcoming to basic cooks,

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even her friend and former makeup artist Daniel, who cuts

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himself slicing a tomato before Mindy's arrival. In episode two,

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Meghan Fiel's gift bags for the Imaginary Children with miniature

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garden tools, seeds, and hand painted decorative bees. She makes

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a balloon arch. She admits that she used to have

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a job teaching other people how to wrap gifts, and

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as the pair sit back in the summer house to

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enjoy the fruit of their labors over a cup of

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fresh mint tea served in floral china, Mindy gestures to

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the king's ransom of fresh flowers surrounding them and comments

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that it could all be done on a budget. Meghan

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likes to take risks. She tells us she makes bread

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because it scares her. She used to be very scared

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of roasting chicken. She remains scared of the bees she

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keeps on her property. She lives on the edge by

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occasionally carrying chopped veggies by hand to add it to

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a pan, rather than taking the chopping board over to

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the hob. I don't wish to join the army of

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meg bashes, but it's too easy to poke fun at her.

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It's illuminating what kind of things present as risky for

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those living such a charmed life. Making bread, roasting chickens,

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and arraging vegging pruit into rainbows across serving platters feels

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the opposite of risky. For it quick. They are homely, cutesy,

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and fail safe, as well as a luxury for those

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who make time for it. I tried my best to

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elevate my veg platter with pea pods, but the out

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of season sugar snaps I find don't do Meghan's intention justice.

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What's more, I question whether I am slicing these peas

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intentionally or if I'm just doing it in a hurry.

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Because Meghan reiterates the importance of sliced peas how much

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money can be made from jam. He is hoping the

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Sussexes have done their sums. If anything, they should be

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getting a payout from the California Tourist Board for so

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comprehensively selling the region. She is giving simplicity without speed,

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slowish food that requires very basic cooking skills, a kind

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of dreamy existence where time means nothing. One can always

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spend the day making food with friends. Back home in Sussex,

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where Megan is the Duchess, locals are questioning her authenticity.

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Colin Hall told Mael Online, if she's going to claim

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the title, then she should have more connection with the palace.

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He suggested that she could get involved in a children's charity,

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would do something else worthwhile in the county, adding simply

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adopting Sussex as a surname to use to your own

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ends is cynical. His brother Jeff shared, I'm sure the

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Sussex title is a very lucrative thing to have, and

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having married into the royal family, she should be able

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to use it. One visit in eight years isn't really

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good enough. She should come more often to earn the

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right to use the name. One possible title for Meghan

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might be the Duchess of Disasters. PR expert Eric Schiffer

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tells Newsweek the show is not a recipe to read

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her reputation. In fact, it reinforces her as the duchess

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of flops and rating disasters. I don't think this builds

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her back or expands her audience in a meaningful way

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at all. To me, this is not the project for

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her to start a masterclass in cringe cooking, for her

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to think she's going to somehow recast herself as a

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modern day Martha Stuart screams, out of touch, elite, desperation,

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palace intrig and we're right back. The United Kingdom is

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set to mark the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Europe,

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a day with four days of commemorations in which the

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Royal family is expected to play a central role. The

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extensive program of events will take place in both May

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and August, honoring those who served and sacrificed during the

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Second World War. Proceedings will begin on May fifth, where

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the Cenotaph traped in Union flags, mirroring its appearance when

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first unveiled by King George the Fifth in nineteen twenty.

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A military parade expected to include members of the Royal

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family will set off from Whitehall and conclude Buckingham Palace

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Cajun walls that feature a flypast of historic and modern aircraft,

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while street parties take place across the country, supported by

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the Together Coalition and the Big Lunch, an initiative under

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the patronage of Queen Camilla. A major celebration aboard HMS Belfast,

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moored on the River Thames, is also anticipated to host

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royal guests. The following day, May six will center on remembrance.

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The poignant installation of thirty thousand ceramic poppies will once

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again fill the moat at the Tower of London, a

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tribute to those who gave their lives for their country.

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That evening, the tower and landmarks nationwide will be illuminated

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in remembrance. On May seventh, the historic Westminster Hall at

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the Palace of Westminster will host a Victory in Europe

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Anniversary Concert, bringing together music and reflection to honour the

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significance of the occasion. The universary itself, May eighth will

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be marked with a service of remembrance Westminster Abbey, recalling

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not only the sacrifices of the war, but also the

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celebrations that took place as peace was declared in nineteen

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forty five. The commemorations will include that evening with a

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special concert at horse Guards parade featuring stars of stage

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and screen alongside military musicians. The performance will recount the

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story of victory in the lasting legacy of the war

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in Europe. Later in the summer, on August fifteenth, attention

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will turn to the eightieth anniversary of Victory in Japan Day,

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which brought the Second World War to a final close.

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A service will take place at the National Memorial Arboretum

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led by the Royal British Legion to honour all those

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who fought and fell on the Pacific theater, with a

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Royal family expected to play an integral role throughout these commemorations,

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the event promises to be a fitting and solemn tribute

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to those who secured peace eighty years ago. Experts are

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embarking on a fascinating endeavor to uncover the secrets behind

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the remarkable, lifelike funeral effigy head of Henry the Seventh,

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the first Tudor monarch. The five hundred year old effigy,

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thought to have been crafted by the Italian Renaissance sculpture

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Pietro Torrigiano, will undergo detailed scanning to determine the techniques

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used to achieve such realism. The effigy head, which originally

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rested the top Henry's coffin during his funeral in fifteen

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oh nine, is the last surviving element of the full

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body effigy, made of wood and straw. The remainder was

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lost to water damage during the Second World War. It

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is believed that Torrigiano may have used a death mask,

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a wax or plaster cast made directly from Henry's face

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after his passing to create the strikingly accurate likeness. The project,

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undertaken by digital heritage firm think C three D, will

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employ photogrammatory, a technique that analyzes multiple images of an

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object to construct a three dimensional model. By capturing surface

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details from different angles and triangulating their depth, researchers aim

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to reconstruct the effigy's original form with a high degree

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of accuracy. Henry the Seventh, who sees the throne from

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rich In the Third at the Battle of Bosworth filled

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in fourteen eighty five, ushered in the Tudor era and

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ruled for twenty four years before his death at the

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age of fifty two. His legacy includes a period of

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relative stability and economic prosperity, as well as the construction

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of the Magnificent Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, where he

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was laid to rest alongside his wife Elizabeth of York.

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The effigy head remains one of the most viewed objects

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in Westminster Abbey's Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. Alongside it, Torigiano's

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guilt bronze tomb effigies of Henry and Elizabeth continue to

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stand above their final resting place. Notably, the effigy had

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suffered damage over the centuries, with Henry's nose having been

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lost and later reconstructed following the Blitz. This new research

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will not only provide insight into the craftsmanship of the

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Reminaissance sculptures, but may also establish a definitive link between

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Henry's death mask and Torogiano's work. Additionally, the project will

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scan Henry's tomb, adding another dimension to the study of

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Tudor funery art. As historians and digital experts pieced together

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the past. The study could bring us closer than ever

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to seeing the true face of Henry the Seventh, the

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king who founded one of England's most famous dynasties. And

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