The Harry and Meghan divorce rumors - much ado about nothing?

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Hello on Welcome to Palace Injury Game, your host Mark Francis. The Sun stirred up the divorce rumors. Royal expert Phil Dampier told The Sun under the headline, I doubt Megan and Harry's marriage will last much longer. I think Megan is genuinely doing a lot of work in the background for this Netflix project and American Riviera Orchard. She probably wants a bit of a hiatus so that she can launch that. As for Harry, obviously he's been back and forth with a few charities. They do seem to be going their separate ways. There's no evidence that they're splitting up at the moment. Personally, I think we have our doubts whether the marriage will last ten twenty thirty years. Another stress point seems to be Christmas, an insider told Heat magazine. It's such an important time of the year for Megan. The insider told the publication her festive memories from childhood are something she still talks about and romanticizes. She's got sorts of traditions to uphold, and of course she wants her husband to enjoy them too.

1:04 She wants them to catch up with friends and do all the fun things such as wrapping gifts and sending out cards. She will also want to make a big dinner and create memories to last a lifetime, so the fact that Harry would even think about them being elsewhere is hurtful as far as she's concerned. This is the time when they should be strengthening their relationship. The Express sources several insiders, with one saying, in her view, it's crucial for them to all be at home in Montecito during the holidays, especially after the strain they've been under lately. Another said the idea of Harry getting her to agree to Christmas in the UK with the Royal family is laughable. Meanwhile, insiders till closer Megan isn't happy at all. She's panicking about Harry being sucked back into his old life. For her, it's better for Harry to be on the outside so she can have him firmly and safely in her corner.

1:49 The insider also suggested if Harry gets back with the Royals, it would strike a note of panic in Megan. A divorce could potentially hurt sales of Megan's designer dog biscuits. Jelly's edible marmalades, fruit preserves, spreads, and jams. In addition to food products, American Revier Orchard will encompass cookbooks, tableware, drinkware, kitchenmen's and other culinary treats. Netflix has also partnered with Markel for a cooking show filmed earlier this year, signaling the streaming Giants backing of her brand. The show still unreleased. Much like her Someday Lemonada podcast, aligns with Netflix's wider plans to launch most of retail spaces called Netflix Houses in two major US shopping centers, The Galleria in Dallas and the King of Prussia Mall near Philadelphia. These venues are set to open in twenty twenty five, offering interactive experiences and things merchandise from Netflix's most popular shows like Stranger Things in Bridgeton, as well as Markel's high profile food offerings. Fans are excited to finally sample Megan Markle's artisan jam, which may clear up what the Upside Down tastes like. The brand's journey has faced a few bumps along the way. American Revier Orchard initially hit a roadblock with its US trademark application and There were also whispers of delays as Markel reported pursued additional investment opportunities. Meanwhile, Netflix moved swiftly to trademark Netflix House, nearly finalizing its application as Markel's brand continues to navigate trademark challenges. Chief marketing officer Marion Lee called the concept the next generation of Netflix's brand strategy, highlighting an ambition to blend entertainment

3:19 and retail in innovative ways. We're looking forward to Meghan's cooking show, although to be honest, it would have been more helpful during the nine months of no Kate. Thanks Megan, more palacy, just a moment the always entertaining DANIELA Ulcer, writing for news dot co orda, you suggested back in February that Megan could learn from Kate. Sure, and we could just read you the Royal Rundown every day without any snark. Neither is going to happen, but Elsa wrote. Over the course of the last couple of months, Kate has proven herself to be the Houdini of the Horse and Hound set. Not having been spired in public since December of last year, the forty two year olds somehow managed to check into the London clinic in January abdominal surgery and spending two weeks recuperating, ferried home to Windsor and then make the two and a half hour drive to Norfolk without even one blurry iPhone photo coming out.

4:09 But still Kate has been doing things inadvertently, like proving that her sister in law, Megan, the Duchess of Sussex, has made a hash of things. Megan, according to her bio, has been named one of the most influential women in the world in twenty twenty four. Megan is indisputably one of the most famous women in the world. So two can her wearing a particular brand changey fashion labels fortunes overnight, but influential in any greater sense culturally, politically, economically. Maybe she was once back in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, when her and Harry's retreat from the Royal Circus Tent was still fresh, still shocking, still stunning, Maybe when for the very first time, the world was digesting the fact that a biracial duchess had found her palace experience so traumatizing she had been left suffering from suicidal ideation. Subsequently, though more baters passed under the Sussex Bridge than over the Hoover Dan In the years since, the Sussexes have come divisive figures whose willingness to monetize their pain during a global pandemic and during an extended period of loss for the royal family with the deaths of the late Queen and Prince Philip, has seen their brand's potency and their star crumble. The scarcity of Kate has made crystal clear just how precious of the commodity she is. Really.

5:17 What Kate has delivered, inadvertently is a lesson in the personal economics of demand and supply. How long until Harvard Business School some such will teach a course in brand management in which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex serve as a cautionary tale, and they have it. I'd like to email us or addresses the Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. Please follo us on Spotify, Apple, all the app of your choice, and don't forget we have subscriptions available where you can get this show commercial free. All the details are in the show notes and you can get this show along with hundreds of others, from Kellerroga shark media, including our sister show, Ballot, our political show, which is full of snark like this one. Find Ballot wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mink Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intriguing contains