Feb. 28, 2025

The Rest Is Entertainment takes jab at Meghan Markle

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Meghan's launch is off to a rough start.

Some people think the cookig show is a lot like Pam Anderson's

The Queen has a new dog.

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Calorouga Shark Media. Hello and welcome through Palace Intrigue. I'm

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your host, Mark Francis. The launch of Megan Minkl's new

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lifestyle brand, as Ever, has inadvertently stirred some confusion, as

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the name has long been associated with a vintage inspired

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New York business founded over a decade ago by Mark Kolski.

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Despite the situation, Kolski tells The New York Times he

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has no immediate plans for legal action, though he consulted

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his brother, an attorney, on the matter. He's not an

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intellectual property lawyer, but he did say, you know you

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have some rights based on your established business. While Kolski

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acknowledged that trademark protection could potentially be an avenue, he

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emphasized that he is not interested in mounting a legal

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challenge unless a direct conflict impacts his business. Right now,

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underting back to work, and I'm trying to keep the

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awareness on my brand. If any conflict eventually arises that

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affects my business, I'll evaluate that then. Moreover, he was

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quick to dispel any notion of animosity towards Meghan, countering

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media speculation of a brewing dispute. What it feels like

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is out there. People are making comments in the media.

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They want to create a rift between us, but there isn't.

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He clarified. I haven't talked to them, they haven't talked

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to me. There's no battle going on. According to Bella magazine,

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the Prince and Princess of Wales's friends have reportedly found

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Megan Markle's new business name rather amusing, so much so

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they've privately dubbed it as if as in as if

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it will take off. One supposed friend of the couple

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claimed the announcement that sparked considerable laughter within their social circle.

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It's caused quite a bit of laughter within the group.

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WhatsApp messages have been going back and forth, they revealed.

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The source went on to describe the rebranding effort as

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very budget and rushed, adding embarrassing. Really. Meanwhile, author Richard

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Osman and journalist Marina Hired have voiced their skepticism over

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Meghan's latest business announcement, offering a rather pointed critique on

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the Rest Is Entertainment podcast. Hid took aim at Meghan's

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Instagram reveal, remarking she cleaned in that little Instagram video

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in that little I'm so excited to share this with

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you way. I always feel that if someone says I'm

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so excited to share this with you, that whatever comes

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next will be appalling. Osmond followed up with his own

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riot take, adding, if you have to say I am

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excited and you know you are not, because you should

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show that you're excited. I mean, just talking, you could say,

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oh my god, she looks really excited. But if you

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have to say me, I'm excited, well you think tell

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your face love. The Daily Mail, Amanda Patel wrote about

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the ticking time bomb that could blow up under Meghan

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Markele and derail her new rebrand. Amanda writes, is it

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a coincidence that, almost a week before the delayed Netflix

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launch of the Duchess of Sussex's new Make or Break

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with Love Meghan lifestyle series, the couple's former Royal aid

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Jason Knolf, has spoken out in an interview for the

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first time. Whatever the case, that he has talked in public,

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it all suggests he might be a ticking time bomb

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that could one day detonate under Megan's self appointed dulousness.

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The question is why did the Palace never publish the

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bullying investigation, particularly when Prince Philip nicknamed Megan the Duchess

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of Windsor in a barbed remark with a wealth of subtext.

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According to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, almost certainly because at

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the time the future King Charles and his ailing mother,

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the late Queen, were desperate to keep the fragile peace

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between the Sussexes and the Royals. It's surely why the

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dossier was buried. Trouble is that, as we have learned

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from the royals previous attempts to keep their messy personal

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lives secret, Charles at fair with Camilla, Diana's affair with

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James Hewitt ticking time bombs that have a habit of

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exploding in their faces when least expected. Inside his belief,

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it is inconceivable that Nouf, who worked happily with William

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and Kate, would have spoken on TV without the very

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least William's tacit agreement, especially as in his interview, Nolf

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is full of praise for Prince William, saying the terrible

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breakdown of his relationship with Harry that William was both

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hard and sad, adding rather scorchingly that he had chosen

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to be private about it as proof of Jason Nelf's

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integrity and closeness to Prince William. After mekes it, he

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went on to become a special adviser to him and Kate,

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and then the Chief executive of the Royal Foundation, the

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charitable arm of their official operations. He was also made

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a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order by the Prince

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of Wales at Windsor Castle in twenty twenty three, telling

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Lee saying that it was the honor of his lifetime

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to work for the Prince and Princess of Wales. Yet,

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for all his closeness to Prince William, Jason now remains

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the keeper of perhaps the most devastating secrets of modern

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Royal history. He knows about Meghan's alleged bullying of two

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women at a time when she was parading herself as

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a feminist. He could turn out to be a ticking

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time bomb for a self appointed Saint Megan. The bomb

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hasn't exploded yet, but it might one day, and not

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a moment too soon. Palace Intriguer it right back, her Majesty,

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Queen Camilla has welcomed a new addition to the Royal household,

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an eight week old rescue puppy named Molly. While visiting

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Canterbury for an engagement celebrating the city's literary and artistic heritage.

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The Queen revealed the news while stroking a guide dog

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named Ferriggie. I've just got a new puppy. He's eight

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weeks old, she told guide dog owner Susan Mason, before

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laughing when asked about his breed. You may well ask

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a bit of everything. It's a rescue dog. It's called Moley.

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It looks just like a mole. Mowley comes to the

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Queen from Battersea Dog and Cat's Home, continuing her long

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standing support for rescue animals. Camilla's deep affection for dogs

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has been well documented, particularly through her beloved Jack Russell's

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Beth and Bluebell. Beth, who was adopted from Battersea in

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twenty eleven, sadly passed away last November after developing an

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untreatable tumor. The loss was deeply felt, with Camilla shearing

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at the time how Beth had been moved from pillar

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to post and dumped before finding a home with her.

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Blue Bell, also a rescue was found wandering the woods

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in a severely malnourished state, but was nursed back to

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health and became Beth's loyal companion. The two dogs made

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history in twenty twenty as the first rescue dogs to

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take up residence in Buckingham Palace. They also featured in

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a memorable photograph celebrating Charles and Camilla's fie fifteenth whenning

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anniversary at Burkehall, and even had their likenesses and embroidered

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into Camilla's coronation gown. The Queen's visit to Canterbury was

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marked by another historic moment, as she unveiled a life

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sized bronze statue of Afra Ben, the trail blazing seventeenth

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century writer often credited as England's first professional female author.

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She also visited the Beanie House of Art and Knowledge,

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where she engaged with a partially sighted museum group and

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in true form, made a bee line for yet another

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guide dog, Ralph. He looks very happy, she observed, before

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adding he can probably smell my dogs. Molly now joins

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the ranks of Royal keen Ane companions past and present,

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continuing a long tradition of dog loving monarchs. King Charles

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too has a fondness for Jack Russell's, having owned several

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throughout his life, including his cherished Tigt, who lived to

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the grand age of eighteen. A willow and bronze wire

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sculpture of Tigger still stands in the gardens of Highgrove

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in tribute. Interestingly, Tigger's daughter Pooh ran off into the

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trees in nineteen ninety four and was never found. Though

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Mollie may be of indeterminate breed, he has already secured

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a place in the royal family's rich history of four

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legged friends, joining a lineage of devoted and much loved

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Royal dogs. And there you have it. Place an email

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