March 14, 2025

Shocking Twist - several people criticize Meghan Markle!

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Hey look we ave you a day off from Meghan yesterday but everyone is talking about her. Should she have a life jacket on the kids in the boat? Ummm yes. Is her show pretty awful? ummmm yes. Plenty to talk about...

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Calorogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Game,

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your host Mark Francis. The Sussexes have come under scrutiny

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after Megan Markle shared a photograph of Prince Harry and

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their daughter, Princess Lilibet on a boat without the three

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year old wearing a life jacket. The image, posted on

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Instagram to mark International Women's Day on March eighth, shows

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Harry cradling Lilibit on his lap and kissing her head.

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While intended as a heartfelt family moment, some viewers quickly

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took issue with the apparent safety oversight, branding it irresponsible

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and even suggesting it may violate California law. California regulations

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require children under thirteen to wear a life jacket at

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all times while on a moving vessel, regardless of its size.

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Social media users were swift to criticize the couple over

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safety concerns. Megan's lifestyle series with Loved Meghan has generated

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plenty of headline and podcasts, but struggled to make a

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significant impact in the ratings. The eight part series only

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just made it into Netflix's top ten ranking at number ten,

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with twelve point six million hours viewed in its first week.

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In comparison, the week's top performer, Kate Hudson's comedy Running Point,

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pulled in sixty one point eight million hours, according to

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data compiled by company Samba TV. The series drew in

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just five hundred twenty six thousand households in its first

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five days, compared to the two point one million that

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tuned in for Harry and Meghan in twenty twenty two.

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The numbers fall well short of Harry and Meghan, the

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twenty twenty two Netflix documentary that became the streamer's biggest

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documentary debut, racking up eighty one point six million hours

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in its first three days and nearly one hundred eighty

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million in its first full week. Other projects tied to

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the Sussexes, such as Live to Lead, Heart of Invectus

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and Harry's Polo series, failed to crack Netflix's top ten altogether,

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leaving their viewership figures unclear. An industry source tells The

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Daily Mail the industry bibles like The Hollywood Reporter and

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Variety are not keen on it. He said, Netflix buses

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are all worried because they have invested a lot in

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the product line. They don't know when and how to

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roll it all out. Unclear is how the reception to

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the TV series will affect the plans for brick and

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mortar Netflix stores selling Megan's dog biscuits and jam. Pr

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expert Nick Eid warned, Hollywood is falling out of love

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with Megan and Harry because over there you have to

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earn your stripes, and it really feels that they haven't

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earned those stripes. If you are a George Clooney, you're

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an Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can get to a level where

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you can be a little bit political, where you can

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use your gravitas to really make a change. What I

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feel about Megan and Harry is they haven't earned that,

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so people are beginning to stop listening. Journalists Dawn Nissan added,

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it's not just Fanity Fair that has turned on them.

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It does feel like the whole of Hollywood has turned

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on them. But there has been a seismic change in

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how people feel about Harry and Meghan in America. I

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saw was told Vanity Fair that the Royals weren't planning

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on watching Meghan's show. One inside her said the King

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knows more than enough about beekeeping. Besides he's far too

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busy to sit down and watch it. As part of

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her promotional campaign for her Beekeeping series on Netflix, Megan

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appeared at Godmother's Bookshop and said, right now, I'm launching

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my business as Ever, which has been my heart song

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for years. Every day on learning so much as a

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founder and taking baby steps and big strides at the

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same time, making mistakes and learning from them, and really

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working to find all the joy while diving into the

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creative process and the business. Being in the granular parts

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of the business gives me the same feeling I have

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when I'm gardening, bare hands in the soil, planting the

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seed with so much care and nurturing it as it grows.

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There's something energizing about being in my forties and turning

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my passion project into a business and sharing that with

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the world. Tina Brown has delivered a scathing critique of

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With Love Megan, calling it yet another misstep in Meghan

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Markle's post royal career. The former Vanity Fair editor declared

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that the show is proof the Duchess of Sussex has

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an unerring instinct forgetting it wrong, and argued that the

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only program that might have worked would have been one

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in which Meghan acknowledged what a flaming flopped the last

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five years have been. In her Fresh Hell newsletter, Brown

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questioned Markle's brand a strategy, describing her as too damn

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impatient and ridiculing the rushed roll out of her American

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Rivenra Orchard lifestyle line, now rebranded as as Ever who

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announces a new lifestyle brand and Helene's celebrity friends to

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tork up her strawberry jam without doing due diligence on

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the availability of the trademark she equipped. Tina revisited mexitt

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saying all Meghan had to do was shut up and wait,

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go quiet for a couple of years, start a family,

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keep her eyes trained on the splendid royal estate that

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would soon come up for grabs, but no offer the

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Commonwealth or Netflix. The Sussex's with naive Avarice chose Netflix.

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A source told Meil online that while Meghan had celebrated

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the series new for the second season, the contract itself

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had not yet been extended. They filmed the shows back

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to back, so in theory, there is no second season,

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just edits being made. Based on feedback from press and

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Netflix viewers, it's clever and cost effective. So no, the

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overall contract hasn't been renewed yet. Palace Intrigue will be

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right back. The latest People magazine feature on Meghan Markel

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has sparked a debate with British broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard,

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questioning its portrayal of the Duchess of Sussex. Chard said

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Meghan is desperate to receive accolades in public approval. She

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longs to be perceived as the best thing since Slice spread.

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Her aim, with the help of certain publications, is to

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revamp her character and change the public's perception. Let's face it,

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she along with Netflix, needs bums on the seats and

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future bustling sales. The public has a long memory of

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Megan's behavior, the hurt and upset cause to the royal family.

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Meghan hasn't redeemed herself. If anything, she has shown a

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passive aggressive sign to the public as she clings to

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her royal title. Apparently, the crew on Megan's show enjoyed

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working with the so called Duchess of difficult One crew

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member told people whether it was a coffee cart in

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the morning or there was one day where the forecast

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called for it to be particularly hot, and she had

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a shaved ice truck for us. At lunch one day,

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she had a bespoke ice cream cart with local homemade

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ice cream. She had an Seia truck for us. Two

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every week she did something like that for us. It

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was really lovely. Another told people she was a great

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hostess between takes. If something was ready to eat, she'd

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cut it into bite sized pieces and serve it to us.

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Mindy Kayling has weighed in on the latest online uproar

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surrounding Megan, addressing the reaction to a moment in with

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Love Megan where the Duchess corrected her on the use

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of her name. Appearing on the view to promote her

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own show. Running Point, Kayling was asked about her experience

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cooking with Megan on the Netflix series You Know I

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had a great time, she said, before acknowledging the viral

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response to their exchange. I noticed that whenever I do

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something anything related to Megan comes like killing trailed off

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before co host will Be Goldberg stepped in, saying big news.

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Kling nodded and repeated big news. Goldberg then added, people

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love to hate her. People love to talk about a

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sentiment Kailing agreed with calling the online reaction to Megan

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fascinating and I haven't I feel like the email us

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