March 4, 2026

Meghan Under Fire: Megyn Kelly Rips “Role Playing” as Jordan Trip Sparks Title Backlash

Meghan Under Fire: Megyn Kelly Rips “Role Playing” as Jordan Trip Sparks Title Backlash
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Fresh criticism for Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, as Megyn Kelly accuses her of “playing a role” and claims she “doesn’t know who she is,” pointing to a viral NBA clip and questioning the couple’s approach to privacy. Meanwhile, Sky News Australia commentators mock a potential Royal Lodge stay, with one calling her the “queen of tacky,” and columnist Daniela Elser argues the Sussexes’ Jordan trip comes at the worst possible moment amid what she calls “extreme public sensitivity” about royal titles.

Plus: GB News calls for Harry and Meghan to be stripped of their titles, reports say the couple have offered their Montecito home to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie during the Epstein fallout, and RadarOnline claims Prince Andrew is “basically trying to find God” as isolation deepens. We also look at questions surrounding Sarah Ferguson’s reported stays in Zurich, the UAE and Ireland — and how she funds it all.

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Ah Callarogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Powers Intrigue.

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I am your host, Mark Francis. Meghan Duchess of Sussex

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has faced fresh criticism from US broadcast to Megan Kelly

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following a recent public appearance with Prince Harry in Los Angeles.

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Speaking on The Meghan Kelly Show, Kelly accused Mirkale of

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playing a role in her marriage and suggested she doesn't

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know who she is. Kelly questioned what she viewed as

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a contradiction between the couple's stated desire for privacy and

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their presence at a high profile sporting event. She recently

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attended an NBA game because she doesn't really like publicity,

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she sat court side. Kelly said she was a referred

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to a viral clip circulating online that showed Prince Harry

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looking away before Meghan touched his arm, after which he

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waved toward the camera. Kelly offered her interpretation of the moment, saying,

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you can't miss the darling. This is the whole reason

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we're here, looking to the camera and get me my shot.

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If you're not looking and they're not looking at me,

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that's really what she is saying there. Kelly went on

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to argue that public life requires a strong sense of identity.

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You really have to know who you are to be

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able to handle this, she said, adding I think that's

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part of the problem with this woman. She doesn't know

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who she is exactly at all. She's playing a role

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and she has been from the start, especially with Harry. Megan,

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the Duchess not the TV host, was the subject of

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sharp criticism during a segment on Sky News Australium where

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commentators discussed reports she and Prince Harry could be offered

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Royal Lodge if they visit the UK this summer. Host

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dunnaka d Georgio opened the segment by referring to Megan

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as everyone's favorite non Royal, the Duchess of Privacy, and

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described a potential UK return as carefully orchestrated. She questioned

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whether Royal Lodge would be an appropriate residence, saying I

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reckon that Lodge is tainted by all of Andrew's misdemeanors,

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but surely not. She was joined by writer and comedian

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Michael Loftus, who made a series of pointed remarks about

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the Duchess. Loftus suggested Megan would need to wipe down

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the whole place and search for hidden cameras, before adding

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maybe she and Andrew used to be a thing. You

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hear these rumors. To be fair to Megan, We've been

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doing this podcast for several years now and have never

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come across such a rumor. Continuing his criticism, often said,

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she is the queen of Tachy. Can't you just come

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over for a family visit, have a picnic, do a barbecue. No,

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she's got to slide into town and try to get

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a free place to stay. She is the Queen of

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Tachy and awkward. In Thenews dot com dot Au, columnist

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Daniella Elsa commented on the Sussex's Jordan trip, writing, this

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is exactly what the Sussexes should be doing all day,

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not trying to make light infatiment about the joys of

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hand dipping candles, are training to shift creates of overpriced jam.

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The issue with the Sussex's spot of day royling isn't

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what they did, but when they did it. If there

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was ever a moment for the Duke and Duchess to

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not to remain King Charles that they are indeed still

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a Duke and Duchess and off doing some diy roiling

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it is now the images of Harry and Meghan and

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Jordan a clear reminder of the need to draw clear

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lines between the crown and the people who just happen

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to be related to the king. Right now, there is

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extreme public sensitivity about members of the King's family doing

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anything that looks like trading off royal status conferred by

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the accident of birth rather than a devotion of duty.

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So what better moment for the Sussexes to pop their

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heads above the parapet and to remind childs in the

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world that they exist and continue to trade off their

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royal titles. Despite having spent the last six years energetically

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rubbishing the royal family. The countdown is on to what

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will be a massive, once in a century rearrangement of

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the royal furniture, and there is no scenario where the

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Sussexes walk away untouched. Harry and Meghan have reportedly offered

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their Montecito home to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie if

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they wish to take a break from the intense scrutiny

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surrounding the Epstein fallout. A source told The Mail on Sunday,

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Harry has communicated with the goal, saying something along the

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lines of he knows what it's like to be at

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the wrong end of the institution. He said, there's an

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open invite, especially for Beatrice if she ever once won.

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For gb news, Lee Cohen writes, at a time when

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the monarchy faces serious reputational pressure, the last thing the

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Royal family needs are two royal turncoats jetting to the

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volatile Middle East, exploiting titles they have abandoned in spirit

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but cling on to in practice, and staging a parallel

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court for relevance and personal glorification. PRINCEI and Megamical abandoned duty.

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They abandoned service. They abandoned their obligation. What they did

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not abandon other trappings of rank, the inherited symbols that

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continue to give weight to their vanity projects. In Jordan

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last week, this became painfully obvious to private influences without

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office or mandate, carrying themselves as though officially sanctioned to

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operate abroad training on princely styling while producing nothing of

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institutional significance. As long as Printeria Mega Michael retained their titles,

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every overseas appearance carries an implied endorsement. That is not opinion.

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It is a consequence, and Britain must not continue embowering

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a frivolous brand masquerading as a monarchy. The remedy is obvious.

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Strip the titles, remove the privileges and the theater or

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palancing just a moment. Radar Online is reporting that Andrew

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is increasingly turning to religion as he faces legal scrutiny

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and mounting isolation. Following a discreete visit from the King's

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domestic chaplain. Reports have said that Reverend Canaan Paul Williams,

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the King's Domestic Chaplain and rector of the Sandringham Group

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of Parishes, drove to wood Farm over the weekend and

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remained for around an hour. A witness quoted by Radar

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said life for Andrew has become strikingly solitary day after day.

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The only people coming through the gates are household staff,

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officers connected to the investigation, and the occasional supermarket delivery van.

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There is no sign of the social circle he wants upon.

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It is very quiet but very contained existence. The same

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source added that the visit from Canaan Williams was unusual,

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precisely because so few outsiders call in and suggested the

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meeting appear to be private and pastoral in nature. An

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insider told the publication Andrew has effectively withdrawn from the

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outside world. Public engagements have vanished, and even private appearances

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are rare. In that vacuum, religion has become one of

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the only steady frameworks left to him, and he appears

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to be embracing it more deliberately. He is basically trying

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to find God. The Daily Mayor wondered how Sarah Ferguson

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is paying for it all. The mayor claims Ferguson spent

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several weeks at the Paraclesis Recovery Clinic in Zurich, a

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facility that reportedly charges up to thirteen thousand pounds per

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day and cater's to ultra wealthy clients. A Swiss source

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told the paper Sarah left for Zurich just after Christmas

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and stayed until the end of January. She always feels

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at home at Periclesis and knows she'll get love and

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attention there, as well as expert health treatment when she

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is feeling at her most vulnerable. Another friend said it

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was the obvious place for her to retreat. From there,

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she is said to have traveled to the UAE, where

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she has long standing contacts, and then to Ireland, where

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she has ancestral roots and the history of retreating during

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difficult periods. A royal source told the paper she seems

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to be very keen, indeed, to avoid being seen while

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she works out what to do next. The article leans

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heavily on historian Andrew Lowney's book entitled The Rise and

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Fall of the House of York to frame this pattern

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as long standing. Lowney wrote that Ferguson's response to crisis

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has often been to go on holiday, detailing previous extended

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stays in Spain, Portugal, the United States, Hawaii, Sardinia, and

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Neckro Island during earlier scandals. One source quoted in his

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book claimed she thought nothing of arriving at an airport

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with twenty five cases and paying between eight hundred pounds

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and four thousand pounds in excess baggage. Royal biographer Ingrid

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Seward has weighed in on Sarah Ferguson's position, suggesting that

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Sarah is unlikely to find herself socially isolated despite the headlines.

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Speaking to Okay magazine, so it said Ferguson has some

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rich and powerful friends who probably will stick by her

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because we know rich and powerful people like drama, and

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this is a great drama, isn't it. So we described

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Ferguson as someone with a massively endearing type of personality,

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but added it's a tragedy that her bad side has

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got the stronger hold over her than the good side.

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So the bad side is the greed, the stupidity, and

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obsessively wanting things. She desperately, desperately wants to be liked,

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