Nov. 27, 2025

MEGHAN’S $247K Meghan Markle's Turkey Day: Beige Gate, Fake Festivity, And A Sage Honey Cash-Grab

MEGHAN’S $247K Meghan Markle's Turkey Day: Beige Gate, Fake Festivity, And A Sage Honey Cash-Grab

Meghan declares Thanksgiving in Montecito “low-key,” which apparently means harvesting sage in poetic slow-motion while launching a $32 Sage Honey from her backyard bees. A glossy As Ever video shows her glazing a turkey in a $297 satin gown paired with nearly a quarter-million dollars in jewellery — prompting the internet to ask why anyone would cook in couture. Critics also pounced on her muted “manila envelope” holiday palette, accusing her of recycling the same beige aesthetic she once blamed on royal protocol.

Meanwhile, PR experts say her recent influencer-style reels expose a growing authenticity problem, with Tom Sykes calling out her “staged November 16 Christmas decorating” and comparing the misstep to the infamous upside-down jam tongs.
Grant Harrold says the Sussexes are now “eating humble pie,” Harry is reportedly desperate to go home for Christmas, and insiders claim he’s homesick, lonely, and waiting for the King’s green light. Expect Meghan to go “offline” for her peaceful Montecito feast — and let's see of we get a photo of Harry looking miserable watching the Cowboys.

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Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Balance Intrigue. I'm

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your host, Mark Francis. It will supposedly be a quiet

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Thanksgiving in Montecito, if the marketing is to be believed.

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Megan Michael used the as Ever newsletter to share a

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highly curated glimpse of Thanksgiving preparations at the Sussex's Montecito estate.

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The Duchess says she Prince Harry and their children harvest

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sage from their garden to season the family meal, describing

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how those strolls with Archie and Lily running in tow

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were the sun drenched moments that made an everyday walk

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something a bit more magical, which is how normal people talk.

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The anecdote also serves as the origin story for her

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newest as Ever product, a thirty two dollar Sage Honey

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with honeycomb, which Megan says was inspired by adding homegrow

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and sage to honey from their backyard bees. The newsletter

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calls it a stunning sage honey, aromatic and earthy, and

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encourages fans to drizzle it on Thanksgiving Turkey vegetables, vinaigrettes,

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or a spoonful in your tea She also offers a

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recipe for an as Ever Sage honey glaze for those

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hoping to create their own Montecito Thanksgiving love story. A

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video on the brand's Instagram shows Megan in a burgundy

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holiday gown, blazing a turkey and setting an elegantly muted table.

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It arrives just days after she faced criticism for a

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beige in depressing holiday promotion for as Ever eclipped, some

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viewers said lacked color, warmth, or any sense of Christmas brightness.

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Comments included where are the Christmas colors? And it's depressing

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unseasoned Manila envelope drabness. Megan's dress, which features a V

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neckline and black bow tied straps, originally retouled for four

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ninety five, but it's currently listened to two hundred ninety

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seven dollars. Her accessories lifted the overall value of the

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ensemble considerably. She wore her basil cut Lorraine Schwartz Pinky

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Ring estimated it between sixty two and seventy thousand dollars.

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Her diamond studded Cartier is just to include necklace that

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eighteen grand her eight thousand dollars Cartier Love braceslit She

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also wore her diamond engagement ring from Prince Harry, estimated

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around one hundred and fifty thousand in totally outfit and

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jewelry amounted to two hundred and forty seven one hundred

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and forty five dollars. Reaction online was mixed. When user

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wrote on x nothing screams authenticity quite as remarkably as

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a woman basting a chicken in a satin frock without

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an apron. Another commented typical more about how she looks

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them what's on the table? A third added, how do

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you even consider cooking in a satin dress? One speacire

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that oily looking sauce would ruin it. Critics also noted

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that Megan once claimed she muted her wardrobe to blend

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in with senior royals. In her current aesthetic again leans

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heavily into muted tones. Social media users remark the latest

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look browns olives and neutrals echoes in the same palette

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she previously said she adopted only out of royal necessity. Megan, however,

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maintains the holidays a mon to see her are pretty

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low key, centered around Archie and Lillibet. She says the

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children are now old enough to understand the celebrations, adding

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I just can't wait to see it through their lens

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every year. Meghan also babbled something about cooking a turkey

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and being fearless. I hope they see the value of

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being brave. They saw it when the jam was just

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a pot on the stove bubbling. When you're young, I

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think you were a little bit more fearless, and as

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we get older, we lose some of that. With a

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Netflix special next week to promote, we'll see if Meghan

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stays off social media for her low key day, we

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are likely to get some pics of Harry looking miserable

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watching the Dallas Cowboys. Former royal butler Grant Harold believes

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Harry and Meghan may be experiencing a big shift in

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their approach to work in public life. Grant said, when

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Meghan first joined the royal family, the late Queen gave

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her blessing for her to continue acting, which was quite unusual.

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But Meghan decided against it and wanted to try her

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way of doing royal life. But it's all backfired a bit.

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I think she's realized that stepping away was a mistake

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and she's backtracking a bit. This is them eating humbled

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pie a bit. She's now got lots of other projects

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that she's working on, mainly her as ever range, and

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I don't think she'll give that up to make acting

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her only venture. She's made clear her passion lines in

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the lifestyle world, and I think that's where the main

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focus will remain. We're also seeing Harry continue his tours solo,

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carrying out more traditional styled royal engagements, focusing on courses

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he's passionate about. It's like they are both going back

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to their roots. It's like they're going back to their

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original plan in the Royalist. Tom Sykes was not impressed

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by one of Megan's recent videos, Sykes Riots. In a

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second long clip uploaded to Instagram on Sunday, Meggan the

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peers in a silky olive green blouse and skirt, her

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hair scraped into a ballerina bun, while hanging stockings in

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a room that eagle eyed viewers will recognize as the

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office where she filmed the video for her short lived

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forty by forty mentoring program. It could be an ordinary

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influencer post, but arriving as it does at the tail

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end of photo gate, I would argue that never has

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it been more critical for Meghan to really think through

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what she is posting. Unfortunately, Megan appears to have given

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the most significant issue of it all, authenticity, no thought

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at all, because here she is gayly pretending that she

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is decorating her home for Christmas on November sixteenth. That

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would be fine if Megan had not spent months insisting

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that as ever as a glimpse of her real life

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distilled into Jam jars Berry Bush's handwritten labels and kitchen rituals,

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it is reminiscent of the Jam Tom's fiasco when in

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a promotional image posted to her site, Megan was shown

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using a jar lifter upside down. There was a trivial mistake,

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but it became a mean because she's made her jam

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and a foundation, myth and a metaphor for her sincerity.

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If you tell the world Jam is your Jam, you

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had better know which way up the tools go, or

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risk viewers noticing the yawning authenticity gap at the heart

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of your brand. Faking putting up Christmas decorations in your

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own home on November sixteenth only matters if your entire

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enterprise depends on belief in you. The video didn't do

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well on social media, with many questioning Megan's choice of colors.

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Online reaction has been swift and largely unflattering. Many social

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media uses criticizing the muted color palette in the latest

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holiday collection. One person on ex wrote, a color scheme

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can be a beautiful thing, but a Christmas one based

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on the color brown as tricky as all get out.

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She and the artistic team missed the mark in a

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very big way with this pretentious attempt at sheaicness. Another

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comment described it as a vomit green holiday collection. Others

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question the ongoing use of neutral shades, with one user

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saying she just can't be honest and admit that she

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likes beige and there is nothing wrong with that. The

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only problem is she could just admit that she lied

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about having to wear the color while in the UK.

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A separate comment read nothing screams festive, holiday and celebration

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like beige. One would think that after she felt compelled

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by the Royal family to wear only beige, that it

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would be the one color she would avoid after her

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great escape. Some suggested the palette simply didn't capture a

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seasonal atmosphere. The holidays are supposed to be colorful and

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bright lights, full of jeer and excitement and laughter from

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the children, wrote one user in a more sardonic take

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another joke. There she is the woman finally free to

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wear bright colors. More Paladin, just a moment. Meghan often

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eight behind the scenes look at her new Harper's Bizarre

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cover shoots during a monochrome video on her Instagram account,

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Thinking the team involved, thank you at Harper's Bizarre, us

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at Samira Naser and this extraordinary team for a special

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and unforgettable experience, she wrote. Editor in chief Samir Naser added,

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at Meghan is our winter cover star. This cover is

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the culbination of a conversation that began five years ago.

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I am eternally grateful to Meghan and her wonderful team

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for their collaboration and trust. An insider tells closer Harry

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is on the tenterhooks waiting to get the go ahead

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to visit King Charles and England at Christmas, and his

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adamant that he needs to be with his father any

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chance he gets. Truth is he's terribly homesick and finding

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Hollywood a very lonely and foreign place to be right now,

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and he'd love to see his family and catch up

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with some of his old friends too. He's talking seriously

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about extending the trip and blocking off much of December,

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but until he gets the approval, he can't plan anything.

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