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Aug. 10, 2026

Meghan’s Jam Habit Baffles a Girl Scout as New Claims Emerge About Her ‘Muzzled’ Royal Visit

Meghan’s Jam Habit Baffles a Girl Scout as New Claims Emerge About Her ‘Muzzled’ Royal Visit
Meghan’s Jam Habit Baffles a Girl Scout as New Claims Emerge About Her ‘Muzzled’ Royal Visit
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Meghan’s Jam Habit Baffles a Girl Scout as New Claims Emerge About Her ‘Muzzled’ Royal Visit

Meghan Markle surprises a young Girl Scout by revealing she dips Thin Mints in jam, while her latest As ever summer message gets a decidedly mixed reaction online. Plus, unnamed sources claim Meghan felt “muzzled” and tightly controlled during the Sussexes’ private royal visit, another report suggests Harry and Meghan could actually acknowledge the damage caused by their family feud, and we look back at the extraordinary and tragic story of Queen Elizabeth’s distant cousin Elizabeth Alice Wise.

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0:00 Ah Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallas Injury e gam Your host Mark Francis. Meghan Markle has left a young girl completely bewildered over the way the Duchess eats cookies. Meghan was at a BuzzFeed Tasty session featuring three of the Girl Scouts who appear in the new Archworld documentary Cookie Queens. When the group discussed their favorite Girl Scout cookies, Meghan chose thin mints. Meghan then revealed I like to dip them in jam. That surprised one of the young Scouts, Shannon Elizabeth, who responded, I've never heard someone do that. Meghan had another suggestion, telling them or sandwiched them together with jam in between. Jam totally coincidentally, has become closely associated with Meghan's as Ever lifestyle brand, which sells raspberry and strawberry spreads as well as orange marmalade.

0:56 During the BuzzFeed appearance, Meghan and the Scouts also worked with the Hasty team to create their own cookie, eventually settling on a creation called the Very Delicious Badgers. The conversation also moved beyond cookies, asked about advice she received as a child that she still remembers. Meghan recalled something a former teacher told her, keep a good heart. Meghan was also asked what adults could learn from younger generations. She praised the Goals for doing more than simply talking about making challenges, telling them you're putting the does behind the says, you're actually doing things to make it better. You're coming together as a team to make it better. That part is so inspiring. Meghan sent a new message to customers of her as Ever lifestyle brand, reflecting on what she calls the simple pleasures of summer. The Duchess wrote, there is a certain rhythm to summer, the first flowers opening in the morning, herbs gathered for the table, fruit ripening in the warmth of the day. So many of our products in the as Ever collection began with an appreciation for these simple pleasures, what we planted in grew in our backyard, and the joy that has come from sharing them. This season, we're bringing fresh ingredients to the table, lingering outdoors a little longer, and making sure that we take the time to find the beauty in every day moments, as often happens with Megan's social media and marketing posts.

2:16 The message also attracted some criticism online, one person responding on expert who talks like that seriously? Another question the carefully style garden imagery, writing who gardens in diamonds? Who can grow all the ingredients for her food line in their backyard? Wake up people, fake fake fake. Others focused on the language of the newsletter. One person joked, I guess I forgot to take up my herbs to warm by the sun in the summer time, while another wrote I got a migraine after reading that. Heap magazine claims Megan has been unhappy about restrictions surrounding her recent private visit involving the royal family. The unnamed source claims Megan found that restriction particularly difficult, saying not being allowed to take photos or post anything about the visit was especially insulting and it still really stings. She's worried that they're degrading themselves by caving into all of this censorship. The same source claims the restrictions have left the Sussexes feeling essentially muzzled and backed into a corner where they have no voice or right to express themselves in their own way.

3:18 Sources to Radar Online commented, from Meghan's perspective, the whole thing felt more like a managed operation than a warm family get together. There was a very clear message from the Palace that this had to be strictly controlled, no drama, no cameras, no sense that this was anything other than a quiet, off the record visit. On the surface, that sounds sensible, but the way it played out was that every detail was dictated to them. They were given a timetable for when they could arrive, told which entrance to use, how long they could stay in, which rooms they would be in. Even casual things taking the children for a walk in the gardens or popping into a different part of the house were effectively off limits unless cleared in advance. For Megan, it felt as though there was a courierography for every step conversation, right down to who they could sit with them for how long. Instead of feeling embraced, she felt they were being steered and monitored, and that loss of spontaneity really underlined the sense that they weren't being treated like family coming home. The unnamed sources are making a lot of news this next one. We will believe when we see Rob Shooter's Naughty but Nice Gossip column suggests Harry and Meghan are considering making a public statement acknowledging the damaged caused by their long running dispute with the royal family. One source, of course unnamed, told Shooter everyone agrees trust has to be rebuilt. The challenges finding language that gives the King the respect he wants without forcing Harry and Meghan to walk back every interview, documentary, or page of spare. According to Shooter's sources, the potential statement would not necessarily involve Harry and Meghan retracting the

4:51 allegations and criticisms they have made since leaving royal duties in twenty twenty. One palace source described the possible approach by saying, an apology doesn't have to be a surrender. It's an acknowledgment that this family feud went too far. Charles wants peace, but he also wants respect. This could be the first real step toward both, and insider told Shout this isn't about Harry and Meghan admitting they were wrong about everything. It's about acknowledging that the past five years have caused enormous pain. The debate now is over what an apology should say, and just as importantly, what it shouldn't more palace in just a moment. A distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth, whose life became the subject of an extraordinary and deeply tragic court case in the nineteen seventies, has died at the age of eighty nine. Elizabeth Alice Wise died on August second at Friaridge Hospital in Northallerton, Yorkshire.

5:50 Wise was a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and a member of the extended royal family, but it was the death of her infant daughter, Emma in nineteen seventy four, and the criminal case that followed that came to define much of her public story. Wires had reportedly desperately wanted a child and was thirty six when Emma Charlotte was born. Nine days after her birth, however, Emma became seriously ill. Wise later recalled that her daughter went very sleepy before falling into what she described as a deep coma. Emma was taken to Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where doctors determined that she was suffering from encephal lightis and inflammation of the brain. The illness left the baby with catastrophic brain damage.

6:33 For approximately nine months, Wise cared for her daughter while also searching for possible treatments. She even traveled to Australia in an effort to find specialist help. According to an obituary published by The Times, Emma's neurological damage was profound. Wise later said that although her daughter's eyes and ears were physically functioning, she had no brain to interpret the messages they sent or to tell the limbs what to do. Feeding her daughter was also extremely difficult. Wise described having to feed Emma desperately slow because otherwise she would be vomiting constantly. By June of nineteen seventy four, Wives decided to end her daughter's life. On June third, she gave Emma an overdose of Mandrek's sleeping tablets. Wise later said she wanted her daughter to die quickly, peacefully, and painlessly.

7:20 The case eventually came before reading Crown Court. Despite some headlines describing Wise as having been accused of murder, the legal outcome is important here. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The court imposed a sentence of one year's probation. The judge described the circumstances as an extreme case, even among exceptional cases. The case generated considerable public sympathy at the time and raised difficult questions about severe disability, parental responsibility, and end of life decisions in an error when both medicine and attitudes towards disability were very different from those of today. Wise subsequently came involved in advocating for greater assistance for parents caring for severely disabled children. She also appeared on the BBC program The World This Weekend to discuss whether doctors should artificially prolong the lives of children facing circumstances similar to those of her daughter. Queen Elizabeth was reportedly sympathetic toward her relative following Wise's arrest, and was said to have provided personal comfort during the ordeal. Wise spent part of her childhood in Ottawa before returning to Britain, and as a young girl attended the nineteen forty seven wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth the Second and Prince Philip. And there you have it. If you'd like to email us, address is the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. I'm Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is pallace intrigue,