<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle is getting dragged for her over-the-top arrival to a Broadway show, with critics calling her four-car motorcade through Manhattan “ridiculous.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex attended a showing of the revival of “Gypsy” last week escorted by three other vehicles, both to hold her security personnel and to serve as decoys. Page Six </span><a href="https://pagesix.com/2025/04/11/royal-family/meghan-markle-hires-over-the-top-motorcade-for-broadway-night/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Markle hired former Secret Service agents as part of her private security detail and that the unmarked vehicle, which belonged to the New York Police Department, carried two intel detectives.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One paparazzi photographer described Markle’s measures as total overkill. The unnamed source said her motorcade stunt was “absolutely abnormal.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Taylor [Swift] usually has two cars — her car that she’s in and a security car with her team,” the source added. “And if she’s going somewhere, she has a separate car on-site with her team already there, but they don’t travel together.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The paparazzo mentioned other A-list celebrities and noted that “no one gets police escorts.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Meghan is out of control and over-the-top, and it’s ridiculous if the city is paying for this,” the source told the outlet. “And if NYPD was not on duty, then they shouldn’t be allowed to run lights. Somebody’s got to be paying for it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The outlet also noted that Prince Harry was not in attendance at the event.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Social media users also shared their reactions to the motorcade. “She’s completely ridiculous. The future Queen goes shopping in London and drives herself with no fuss. They really are a narcissistic pair of attention seekers!” one person </span><a href="https://x.com/according2_taz/status/1910752558819213488?s=43&amp;t=BDz6oekueqrSVJ50bM62xw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Of course she did — when your ego won’t fit in one car, a four-car motorcade is absolutely essential for a night at the theater!” another </span><a href="https://x.com/CandidCoverage/status/1911052666010304755"><span style="font-weight: 400;">agreed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Markle later posted about the show, sharing photos of herself backstage meeting the cast. “If you get a chance to see @gypsybway, you absolutely must. Congratulations to the tremendously talented cast and crew for creating magic on that stage,” the Duchess of Sussex wrote in the caption. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8216;[Audra McDonald’s] performance will leave you absolutely speechless. Full body chills. I don&#8217;t think there was a dry eye in the house, and if the theater didn&#8217;t have to close for the night, the standing ovation would still be happening,” she continued.</span></p>


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Meghan Markle Mocked For Taking 4-Car Motorcade To Broadway Show: ‘Absolutely Abnormal’

Meghan Markle Mocked For Taking 4-Car Motorcade To Broadway Show: 'Absolutely Abnormal'

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast just dropped, and it’s already getting obliterated by critics.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Confessions of a Female Founder” is meant to highlight successful businesswomen and “inspire anyone who’s interested in turning their own entrepreneurial dreams into a reality.” But multiple reviews say the first episode, which focuses on Bumble dating app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, is plagued by multiple issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Herd is a longtime friend of the Duchess of Sussex. Several critics note that the conversation is surface-level and too focused on Markle. The Times of London reviewer </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/meghan-podcast-review-confessions-female-founder-075z0m0sp"><span style="font-weight: 400;">said</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the episode contained nothing but “vapid lessons in self-love.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Predictably, she has nothing to say about real business problems such as logistics, management techniques or supply chain issues. Equally predictably, there is lots of guff about how to love yourself and spread positive energy through the world,” the reviewer added.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I suspect that this is not the sort of thing most small business people spend much time fretting over. But then Meghan’s business isn’t really a business. It’s a bit like the corporate equivalent of Marie Antoinette’s dairy farm — a pleasant game of make-believe for an idle rich woman.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Times reviewer also mocked Wolfe Herd for claiming to be on a “journey of self-love and self-discovery.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m going to foundationally re-architect the way people date and the way people love,” Wolfe Herd said during the episode.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“By this point I was seized by an urge to beat my head against the wall and foundationally re-architect my skull,” the reviewer wrote of that moment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Telegraph reviewer had similar </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/04/08/confessions-of-a-female-founder-podcast-meghan-review/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">feedback</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, saying the “Confessions” included an “inane stream of mindless aphorisms” and “no confessions or secrets.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The frustrating thing is that Wolfe Herd, who is just 35, presumably does have wisdom to impart, having been part of the team that created Tinder before she created Bumble,” the reviewer noted. “Imagine the drive, the talent, the decisions and sheer bloody ruthlessness it must take to achieve what she has. We get none of it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The reviewer from <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2038917/meghan-markle-podcast-review">Express</a> said Markle steamrolled the whole thing. “Meghan takes control of the narrative early on in the episode. She bluntly directs the podcast by informing her friend of how she wants the conversation to be ‘relaxed and easy’ — which is normally a chat you would have with a guest behind-the-scenes instead of on-air for broadcast,” the reviewer noted. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the criticism, “Confessions” debuted in the top 10 chart in all categories on Apple Podcasts on its first day of release Tuesday. It sits at </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/charts"><span style="font-weight: 400;">number four</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the Apple Podcast Top Charts list.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Markle’s previous Spotify podcast, “Archetypes,” was canceled after one season. The former working royal also got mixed reviews for her new lifestyle series on Netflix, “With Love, Meghan,” and her product line called As Ever. </span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prince Harry and his friend Prince Seeiso of Lesotho have announced that they’re resigning as patrons of their beloved charity Sentebale, a decision they both describe as “devastating.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duke of Sussex and Prince Seeiso established Sentebale in 2006 in memory of their late mothers. The charity </span><a href="https://sentebale.org/what-we-do/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">provided</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “comprehensive support for children and young people, including those living with HIV/AIDS, covering healthcare, critical life skills, education, advocacy, and climate resistance” in Lesotho and other areas of Africa.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prince Harry established the charity to honor his mother, the late Princess Diana, who was also known for her efforts in helping the AIDS community in Africa.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a joint statement, Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso said, &#8220;What’s transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock that we have to do this, but we have a continued responsibility to Sentebale’s beneficiaries, so we will be sharing all of our concerns with the Charity Commission as to how this came about.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Nearly 20 years ago, we founded Sentebale in honor of our mothers. Sentebale means ‘forget-me-not’ in Sesotho, the local language of Lesotho, and it’s what we’ve always promised for the young people we&#8217;ve served through this charity. Today is no different,&#8221; the statement continued, per </span><a href="https://people.com/prince-harry-devastated-as-he-quits-african-charity-sentebale-founded-princess-diana-honor-11703464"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;With heavy hearts, we have resigned from our roles as patrons of the organization until further notice, in support of and solidarity with the board of trustees who have had to do the same,&#8221; it said. &#8220;It is devastating that the relationship between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The princes said in a statement, “These trustees acted in the best interest of the charity in asking the chair to step down while keeping the well-being of staff in mind. In turn, she sued the charity to remain in this voluntary position, further underscoring the broken relationship.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Harry and Prince Seeiso thanked the trustees for their “service over the years” and said they’re “truly heartbroken they’ve had to follow through with this act.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Although we may no longer be patrons, we will always be its founders, and we will never forget what this charity is capable of achieving when it is in the right care,&#8221; the statement concluded.</span></p>


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Prince Harry Quits African Charity He Founded: 'What’s Transpired Is Unthinkable'

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A trailer for Meghan Markle’s new podcast dropped on Tuesday, and with it comes more details about the Duchess of Sussex’s latest business venture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The wife of Prince Harry, who quit her job as a full-time working royal in 2020, shared some information about her new podcast, &#8220;Confessions of a Female Founder,&#8221; which is being produced by Lemonada Media. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m Meghan, and this is ‘Confessions of a Female Founder,’ a show where I chat with female entrepreneurs and friends about the sleepless nights, the lessons learned, and the laser focus that got them to where they are today,&#8221; Markle says in the </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/confessions-of-a-female-founder-with-meghan/id1803670198"><span style="font-weight: 400;">trailer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We&#8217;re diving into the highs – and the lows – and the kind of advice that turns small ideas into billion-dollar businesses,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And of course, we&#8217;re going to get some girl talk!&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One guest chimed in, &#8220;It just started climbing and climbing, and there was 5,000, 10,000 people on our website.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m broke, and no one is calling me,&#8221; another person said. Another unidentified participant said, &#8220;I knew in that moment that I&#8217;d rather stand for something than sell a whole ton of product and stand for nothing.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Are you saying you&#8217;re not single now? Have I missed something in the past couple weeks? What&#8217;s happening?&#8221; Meghan asked one of the guests as the two giggled.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;And through it all, I&#8217;m building a business of my own, and getting all sorts of practical advice along the way that I&#8217;m very excited to share with you. So join me for ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ from Lemonada Media, which by the way, is also female-founded. Launching April 8, wherever you get your podcasts,&#8221; Markle added. &#8220;Let&#8217;s do this, ladies.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;This is not ‘Shark Tank,’ think of this as &#8216;dolphin tank.&#8217; These are very friendly waters, it&#8217;s all going to be good,&#8221; she concluded. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex announced the podcast was coming earlier this month. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I’m so excited to share with you something else I’ve been working on: ‘Confessions of a Female Founder,’ my new podcast with @lemonadamedia!&#8221; Markle <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-announces-another-podcast-after-losing-spotify-show">shared</a> on Instagram.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities, and scaled small ideas into massively successful businesses,&#8221; she went on. &#8220;They’re opening up, sharing their tips, tricks (and tumbles), and letting me pick their brains as I build out my own business, As ever. It has been absolutely eye-opening, inspiring… and fun! (Because what’s the point if we can’t have some fun on this wild adventure?)&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her announcement inspired a lot of mockery online, especially considering how her last podcast, “Archetypes,” failed to be renewed for a second season. Most of Markle’s business ventures have been underwhelming, including a recently launched cooking and lifestyle show on Netflix that’s been absolutely skewered and parodied online for weeks. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many users also pointed out that her new podcast sounds very similar to the existing podcast “Confessions of a CEO.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Tell me you don’t have a single original thought without telling me you don’t have a single original thought,&#8221; one person </span><a href="https://x.com/BiroNower/status/1900216832969052383"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on X alongside a screenshot depicting that podcast.</span></p>


Meghan Markle Promises ‘Billion Dollar’ Business Advice On New Podcast After Spotify Show Bombed

Meghan Markle Promises 'Girl Talk' And 'Billion Dollar' Business Advice On New Podcast

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle announced she’s launching another podcast in April after losing her “Archetypes” show on Spotify when the streaming site announced </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">that it would not be renewing it for a second season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m so excited to share with you something else I’ve been working on: “Confessions of a Female Founder,” my new podcast with</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/lemonadamedia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> @lemonadamedia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!” the Duchess of Sussex wrote in a post on Thursday on </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJN9BrJtwG/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities, and scaled small ideas into massively successful businesses,” she added. “They’re opening up, sharing their tips, tricks (and tumbles), and letting me pick their brains as I build out my own business, As ever.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It has been absolutely eye-opening, inspiring…and fun! (Because what’s the point if we can’t have some fun on this wild adventure?)” Markle continued. “First episode is April 8th!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Suits” actress signed a deal with Lemonada Media in 2024 after </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spotify opted out of a second season of the podcast with the royal couple. In 2020, Prince Harry and Markle signed an agreement with the streaming site for $20 million, the </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/entertainment/meghan-markle-lands-podcast-confessions-of-a-female-founder-after-spotify-disaster/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duke and Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s company, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archewell Audio, produced 12 episodes of the Spotify podcast, which aired from August to November 2022.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The streaming site and the royal couple’s company released a joint statement in 2023 that they “mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series [they] made together.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An insider, at the time, told the </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/prince-harry-meghan-markle-split-from-spotify/?_gl=1*1rdu6jn*_ga*MTY5ODgwMzA2MS4xNjgwNzE5MzY0*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*MTY4NzgwMzY1Mi42MC4wLjE2ODc4MDM2NTIuMC4wLjA.&amp;_ga=2.141075378.188947288.1687794380-1698803061.1680719364"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that the royal couple had not produced enough content to justify the deal the royals made with the streaming site.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to launching a new podcast, Markle recently dropped a new lifestyle series “With Love, Meghan” on Netflix. It has already been renewed for a second season, despite criticism and reviews that have panned the royal’s show as a disaster and pointless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The duchess previously shared news that the eight-episode series, which debuted on Netflix March 4, was coming back. In the first week, the series placed in the top 10 on the streaming site, </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/07/markles-with-love-meghan-renewed-for-another-season-despite-low-review-ranking/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&amp;utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The series has scored dismal reviews from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and, unsurprisingly, did particularly poorly in the United Kingdom.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One reviewer from The Guardian </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/04/with-love-meghan-netfix-deal-harry-royals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called it</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “pointless” and predicted it would be the Sussexes’ last television show after several Netflix flops. The outlet also said the series was bound to fail “unless the broader public suddenly develops a hankering for long-form television programmes about a woman filling children’s party bags with seeds and manuka honey.”</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-says-her-netflix-lifestyle-series-renewed-for-second-season-after-brutal-reviews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meghan Markle Says Her Netflix Lifestyle Series Renewed For Second Season After Brutal Reviews</a></strong></p>


Meghan Markle Announces Another Podcast After Losing Spotify Show

Spotify

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle is having a rough week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actress turned royal turned tony Montecito resident debuted her new lifestyle show, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Love, Meghan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, on Netflix last Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, every corner of the internet had excoriated her for the effort.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And when it comes to effort, Meghan puts forth a lot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not unlike Anne Hathaway or Sally Field circa the 1985 Oscars shouting, “You like me! You really, really like me!” Meghan is a classic try-hard. I don’t say this disparagingly; as someone who regularly brings home-baked treats to professional settings, I respect her domestic hustle. And however disparate our points of view on politics or publicity stunts, I also tip a hat to anyone willing to enter the public arena and welcome scrutiny, a subject with which the duchess is well-acquainted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her new show is the latest in a string of attempts at reinvention that Meg and her husband Prince Harry have made since stepping down from their royal duties in January 2020. The much lambasted lifestyle show is preceded by three other documentary projects, all part of their reported $100 million five-year deal with Netflix, and Meghan’s short-lived </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archetypes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> podcast, which rests under the banner of a reported $20 million deal with Spotify. Each project sparked more irritation than the last, but Meg’s new hospitality and cooking show takes the critical cake.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While Meghan and Harry have long held sympathies from legacy media and celebrity circles alike, even mainstream and left-leaning publications including </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Variety</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hollywood Reporter</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ScreenRant</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vulture</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cut </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">have no soft spot for their latest production.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some outlets slam Meghan for her unrelatability and luxurious lifestyle, while others chastise her for not allowing enough access into the rarified world of a real-life American princess. Reviewing the collected criticism of this attempt at a lighthearted escape of a television show feels a little like getting Lindsay Lohan’s emotional whiplash upon her first high school cafeteria foray into the world of The Plastics in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mean Girls</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. One almost expects the sporadically featured cameraman, who, when asked if he’d like to share a glass of beer left over from a recipe for chicken brine, to respond to Meghan by saying, “So, you agree. You think you’re really pretty.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While certain criticisms are warranted, they do lack an essentially nuanced understanding of both the show’s genre and its titular star.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_889681" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-889681" class="size-large wp-image-889681" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-1024x576.jpg" alt="Meghan Markle in “With Love, Meghan” Netflix. Photo by COURTESY OF NETFLIX copyright 2024 Netflix, Inc. IMDB." width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/MixCollage-11-Mar-2025-09-20-AM-8110-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><p id="caption-attachment-889681" class="wp-caption-text">Meghan Markle and Ramon Velazquez in “With Love, Meghan” Netflix. Photo by COURTESY OF NETFLIX copyright 2024 Netflix, Inc. IMDB.</p></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Superfans hoping the show — whose trailer billed it as a straightforward lifestyle series — would spill tea on the royal family drama were left sorely disappointed. Just minutes into the first episode, Meghan announces that the sun-drenched kitchen in which she flits about is not inside of her actual house, and she goes on to refer to it as the “set” throughout the rest of the series. The most personal detail she shares about her royal husband is that he sometimes comes strolling into the kitchen when he smells that she’s frying bacon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even the most tuned-in Royal-watchers stopped speculating on the family drama about 20 minutes into the famed Oprah tell-all when most of it boiled down to salacious headlines, hearsay, and quite a bit of melodrama — all well-honed by an actress who earned her previous paychecks on a soapy legal drama series. All that said, did critics hoping for a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the royals’ new Montecito digs think that one of the most scrutinized families in the world would again open wide the doors of their life for a Bravo style reality show? They tried that before and it only served to plummet their social stock, most aptly and satirically evidenced by </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Southpark’s</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “World Wide Privacy Tour” episode in which Harry and Meg’s animated avatars travel the globe’s media outlets demanding that people leave them alone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The more frequent complaint of the show and its host is the unrelenting lack of self-awareness: the in-your-face luxury of the one-percent that Meghan treats like it’s accessible to anyone with a pot to boil water in. Among other accouterments of said ridiculousness cited by critics is a backyard honey farm from which a quirky on-staff beekeeper extricates wax for Meghan’s homemade non-toxic candles. Her first guest is Daniel Martin, her longtime makeup artist, with whom she chuckles about how she called his talent agency </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">herself</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (gasp!) to inquire for her first booking since she didn’t even have a publicist at the time. (How pedestrian!) From celebrity guest Mindy Kaling feigning awe at the fact that Meghan makes her own balloon arches for children’s parties, rather than farm out the chore to a hired hand (the ingenuity!) to Meghan sprinkling edible flowers atop literally everything (and you can too, once her merch website launches!) the show is ripe with out-of-touch excess.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To which, this author says: so what?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One has to wonder if critics claiming offense at Meghan’s unrelatable lifestyle have ever actually watched a lifestyle show; the genre is not supposed to be relatable. At most, it’s aspirational; at minimum, it’s a distraction. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Love, Meghan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is not something you settle down to view with a critical eye. It’s something you put on the television while you’re folding heaping baskets of laundry or washing a sink full of dishes. Sure, the patio in the sweet little home my husband and I share doesn’t have enough space for a beehive, nor does our guest room provide occupancy for its quirky keeper, but darn if I wasn’t inspired to see if our local grocery store carries mãnuka honey. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other critics come after Meghan for positioning herself — by virtue of hosting this show — as something of an authority on hospitality and cooking. While it’s clear that she genuinely loves both, one does begin to question what qualifies her as the show’s star when she painstakingly arranges (yet another) crudité platter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From the obsessively perfect and famously difficult Martha Stewart, to the unabashedly entitled and comically out-of-touch Gwyneth Paltrow, to the unmatched Ina Garten, who personifies the comforting charm of “eat, drink, and be merry,” the greats of this space have already been established during its heyday. Everything else is copy. That’s why </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Love, Meghan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> feels, admittedly, a bit misplaced: unaware of what it isn’t and hitting our airwaves about 10 years too late. In an era when anyone can access all-star recipes from the homecooks of Instagram — shared from modest kitchens across our country — it does make the notion of a duchess casually modeling how to create a harvest basket using produce from her own palatial garden feel more than a little tone-deaf. Then again, Hilaria Baldwin, the Boston-born-and-bred wife of actor Alec Baldwin, once hosted a cooking segment on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Today Show</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and proclaimed to forget the English word for “cucumber,” so immersed in her Spanish culture is she. If there’s anything we’ve learned from celebrities, it’s that proximity to power can create all manner of ego-driven delusions of grandeur.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, while aspects of the show are inauthentic and silly, and it’s largely devoid of pace and purpose in the way that an eight-episode series that should have been four often are, I didn’t go into the viewing experience expecting anything other than a beautiful West Coast backdrop, a few outfit ideas (even Meghan’s harshest critics admit that her style is impeccable), and a handful of tips and tricks for putting together gifts for loved ones. For all the eye-rolling criticism that her show has garnered, I would bet money on the fact that women all over America are, at this very moment, decanting store-bought peanut butter pretzels into little labeled gift bags. It’s an adorable idea and I dare even the most cynical of snackers not to be touched when they find it on their bedside table along with lavender towels and a carafe of sun tea next time they visit a friend who has watched (or hate-watched) Meghan’s show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure, the duchess’s swooning commentary on the beauty of the weather, dimpled focaccia dough, or an egg yolk is tiresome, as is her penchant for speaking in platitudes that belong on tea towels. She’s understandably guarded enough to appear performative, and the amateurish tips presented as sacrosanct should be taken less seriously, but I didn’t tune in expecting to find this era’s Martha, Gwyneth, or Ina. As a Royal-watching, Nancy Meyers aesthetic-obsessed, amateur home cook, and aspiring excellent hostess, I am exactly the woman for whom this show was made. I watched it for the same reason that I saw </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barbie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in theaters without expecting it to rival an adaptation of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pride &amp; Prejudice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or enjoy reading a novel with a Nantucket beach scene on the cover without comparing it to Dickens or Dostoevsky.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s just a bit of fun, and sometimes, that’s enough.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, to the show’s harshest and high-minded critics, I offer an invitation: stop watching.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or, at least find a hobby to keep you busy while you do, because </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Love, Meghan</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has already been renewed for a second season.</span></p>


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Meghan Markle Is Having A Rough Week

California

Netflix

Opinion

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle series “With Love, Meghan” has already been renewed for a second season, despite criticism and reviews that have panned the royal’s show as a disaster and pointless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh, how I love ASMR! If you’re loving Season 1, just wait until you see the fun we cooked up on Season 2!” t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">he Duchess of Sussex captioned her post on Instagram —hich blocked people from commenting on the surprising news.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Thanks for joining the party, and an endless thanks to the amazing team and crew who helped bring it all to life!” she added. “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">@netflix</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The eight-episode series debuted on Netflix last week and by Friday, the duchess shared news it was coming back. In the first week, the series placed in the top 10 on the streaming site, </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/03/07/markles-with-love-meghan-renewed-for-another-season-despite-low-review-ranking/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&amp;utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> noted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Meghan, Duchess of Sussex invites friends and famous guests to a beautiful California estate, where she shares cooking, gardening and hosting tips,” the series </span><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81770808"><span style="font-weight: 400;">description</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Netflix reads.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/entertainment/meghan-markles-netflix-show-with-love-meghan-renewed-for-season-2/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social">New York Post</a> reported that filming and production on the second season was complete, and it was set to drop this fall. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was this tidbit that seemed to upset critics, with many taking to social media to note that there was no support or outcry from fans for another season, but that the show had reportedly already completed filming for a second part.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Honestly, this was an excellent PR strategy. Film the show. Break it into two parts and then make it seem like it was renewed for a second season because everyone loved it,” one person noted on X. &#8220;Good one, but we see right through the BS. With Love, Meghan is a flop.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another person added, pointing to a Deadline article, “The truth is out. With Love, Meghan was originally greenlit for two seasons. Nothing new here!”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The series has scored dismal reviews from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and, unsurprisingly, did particularly poorly in the United Kingdom.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A reviewer from The Guardian </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/04/with-love-meghan-netfix-deal-harry-royals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">called it</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “pointless” and predicted it would be the Sussexes’ last television show after several Netflix flops. The outlet also said the series was bound to fail “unless the broader public suddenly develops a hankering for long-form television programmes about a woman filling children’s party bags with seeds and manuka honey.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex also </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/04/lifestyle/meghan-markle-mocked-by-netflix-viewers-for-her-basic-one-pan-pasta-dish-thats-not-food-thats-punishment/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">got ridiculed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for an unconventional recipe for spaghetti, which she claimed she put in her children’s lunch boxes the next day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That’s not food – that’s punishment!” one person remarked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“With so little water, the dish must be a gluey, sticky, starchy brick,” another person agreed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Her food looks very basic and a bit boring,” a third said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commenters on X were not impressed either.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I just saw the 8 episodes, and they are worse than you can possibly imagine,” one <a href="https://x.com/paulamatanovich/status/1896776576244597226" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewer</a> r</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eplied</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m so glad Meghan Markle has a new show on Netflix where I can watch her take pretzels out of a labeled bag and put them into a new bag…then label it. The people’s Martha Stewart!” another commenter </span><a href="https://x.com/quickqspod/status/1896899586389848453"><span style="font-weight: 400;">joked</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><em>Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.</em></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-getting-dragged-for-pointless-netflix-show-worse-than-you-can-possibly-imagine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meghan Markle Getting Dragged For ‘Pointless’ Netflix Show: ‘Worse Than You Can Possibly Imagine’</a></strong></p>


Meghan Markle Says Her Netflix Lifestyle Series Renewed For Second Season After Brutal Reviews

World

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former working royal Meghan Markle has been mocked ever since the release of her new Netflix lifestyle series, “With Love, Meghan,” which dropped on Tuesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TV personality is being criticized for her show being inauthentic, elitist, and out-of-touch, even when interacting with her friends on the eight-episode series. One of the most viral moments comes when Markle firmly corrects her longtime friend, actress Mindy Kaling, insisting that she’s calling her by the wrong name.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying ‘Meghan Markle.’ You know I’m Sussex now,” the “Suits” actress says abruptly at one point. Kaling remains quiet with a serious expression as Markle goes on to explain her reasoning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have kids and you go, ‘No, I share my name with my children.’ And that feels so — I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me. But it just means so much to go, &#8216;This is our family name, our little family name,'&#8221; she went on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Well, now I know,” Kaling replied. “And I love it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Viewers have been critical of this interaction and of Markle’s decision to use her royal title “Sussex” as a last name, which is a break in tradition for the royal family. Meghan and her husband Prince Harry were given the titles His Royal Highness the Duke and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex after they wed. But Sussex is a cultural region, not a name. Prince Harry’s actual surname is Mountbatten-Windsor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Buckingham Palace said in a statement that Meghan and Harry could keep their titles as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but they would no longer be referred to as His and Her Royal Highness after quitting their roles as working royals in 2020.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, are now using the last name “Sussex” informally, which is what led Markle to want to do the same.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;She has spent under six hours in the county in her entire lifetime&#8230; she&#8217;s not a Sussex, she&#8217;s a Windsor,&#8221; British news anchor Piers Morgan said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Her name is NOT Meghan Sussex. Her name is technically Rachel Mountbatten-Windsor,” another commenter observed. “Sussex is a county in England &amp; part of a courtesy title-NOT her last name.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She continued, noting how the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince William and Kate Middleton, sometimes style their children’s last name in school as Wales to simplify things, but the adults don’t.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Diana didn’t call herself ‘Diana Wales’ either,” she </span><a href="https://x.com/unreMARKLEble/status/1897028688019128821"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in an X post. “[Meghan Markle] just showed how ignorant she is of the protocols &amp; customs of the family she married into &amp; no doubt they’re laughing at her. Yes… she shares a last name [with] her kids…but it ain’t Sussex.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many other followers pointed out how Markle complained about her name change during the bombshell interview she did with Oprah in 2021. “I grieve a lot. I mean, I’ve lost my father. I lost a baby. I nearly lost my name. I mean, there’s the loss of identity,” she said during that interview. “But I’m still standing, and my hope for people in the takeaway from this is to know that there’s another side.”</span></p>


Meghan Markle Mocked For Scolding Mindy Kaling Over Using Her Name: ‘You Know I’m Sussex Now’

Meghan Markle Mocked For Scolding Mindy Kaling About Using Her Name: 'You Know I'm Sussex Now'

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former royal aide </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason Knauf opened up about the rift between </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prince William and Prince Harry and said it’s been “hard and sad” for those on the inside to witness the split between the brothers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking on “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YHfkaVcGZ8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">60 Minutes Australia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” Knauf &#8212; who previously worked as a communications secretary to Prince William and Kate Middleton along with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle &#8212; said that he’s unsure if the bond between the two brothers could ever heal, which started after Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties and eventually moved to the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to have this stuff play out in the public eye, but [William]&#8217;s chosen to keep his thoughts on it private, and I think all of us who know him really have to respect that we should do the same,&#8221; Knauf said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But I will say, of course, it&#8217;s been hard and sad, especially for all of us who know both of them,&#8221; he added.</span></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Prince Harry and Prince William&#8217;s Former Royal Aide Breaks Silence on the Brothers&#8217; &#8216;Sad&#8217; Rift <a href="https://t.co/zILNiD2tDt">https://t.co/zILNiD2tDt</a></p>
<p>— People (@people) <a href="https://twitter.com/people/status/1894038608585064730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knauf, who “worked really closely with&#8221; Harry and Meghan to plan their wedding in 2018, called the opportunity to work with the couple on their event an &#8220;amazing, magical experience” and wished them all the best.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The former aide also said he couldn’t “speculate on the future” when asked if he thought Harry’s role in the family could possibly change when William becomes King. He added, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“They achieved a lot together, and none of that can ever be taken away.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, another former royal aide, Grant Harrold, spoke to the outlet and said that the “broken bond” won’t last forever and suggested that Harry will &#8220;still be</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> there to support his brother [at his coronation as King] as he has been for his father.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After serving as</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a communications secretary to the royal brothers and their wives, Knauf took on the role of chief executive of Prince William and Middleton’s Royal Foundation, before he stepped down from the royal household in 2021.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2024, a source told </span><a href="https://people.com/prince-harry-prince-william-aide-breaks-silence-brothers-rift-jason-knauf-60-minutes-australia-11685045?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_content=likeshop&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People magazine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Harry’s calls and letters to his father King Charles and his brother have reportedly gone unanswered.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rift between the brothers is &#8220;very bad,” said a royal insider, but it’s not &#8220;irreparable.”</span></p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-harrys-mad-meta-is-no-longer-fact-checking-people-when-they-say-upsetting-things" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Harry’s Mad Meta Is No Longer Fact-Checking People When They Say Upsetting Things</a></strong></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former working royal Meghan Markle has announced that she’s rebranding her lifestyle company before hard launching a single product.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex shared the news via Instagram with a post revealing the new name just a few weeks before her Netflix series premieres. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The brand launch started last March when Markle introduced the idea of “American Riviera Orchard,” which, as far as anyone could tell, sold some homemade preserves. There were photos that showed celebrities receiving samples from a limited batch, but nothing beyond that besides a website collecting email addresses – until now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the video launch of the newly branded “As Ever,” the former royal explains that she chose a name that made more sense. However, multiple outlets are <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/entertainment/meghan-markle-renames-lifestyle-brand-american-riviera-orchard-to-as-ever-after-trademark-woes/">reporting</a> that Markle could not get the name America Riviera Orchard trademarked, eventually leading to the shift.</span></p>
<p>And then things got even more complicated. Since the brand launch, the owner of the United States-based clothing brand &#8220;As Ever,&#8221; which he says has been in business since 2015, posted on social media about the newfound attention. He assured customers that he has no affiliation with the Duchess of Sussex.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Designer Mark Kolski wrote in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DGO6FWasDQ4/?hl=en">post</a> on Instagram: &#8220;I want to say thank you to all the old friends who know and love our small family brand As Ever, and also say hi to all those that have just become aware we exist.&#8221;</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8220;In the last 36 hours there has been an outpouring of support and concern regarding recent events around our namesake brand. We are aware. We are not affiliated,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8220;It&#8217;s 2025. We are grateful to still be here making clothing in New York &amp; New Jersey,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;We are grateful for all the customers coast to coast and world wide that have supported our venture. We will continue As Ever.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Duchess of Sussex shared the news in an outdoor-based video posted to Instagram featuring a brief cameo from her husband, Prince Harry, who can be heard saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s recording,&#8221; before handing her a phone.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The cat’s out of the bag,&#8221; Markle says in the clip. &#8220;I’m shocked we’ve kept this a secret for so long. In two weeks my show is coming out, which I’m so excited for. And also my business, which I think there has been a lot of curiosity about.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Last year, I had thought, &#8216;American Riviera, that sounds like such a great name.&#8217; It’s my neighborhood; it’s a nickname for Santa Barbara, but it limited me to things that were just manufactured and grown in this area,&#8221; she continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Then Netflix came on, not just as my partner in the show, but as my partner in my business, which was huge. So I thought about it, and I’ve been waiting for a moment to share a name that I had secured in 2022, and this is the moment, and it’s called &#8216;As Ever,'&#8221; Markle said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She then explained that the new website is meant to reflect her defunct lifestyle brand, The Tig.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;As Ever essentially means as it’s always been, and if you’ve followed me since 2014 with The Tig, you know I’ve always loved cooking and crafting and gardening — this is what I do,&#8221; Markle went on. &#8220;And I haven’t been able to share it with you in the same way for the past few years, but now I can, so as things are starting to trickle out there, I wanted you to hear it from me first.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Of course, there will be fruit preserves; I think we’re all clear at this point that jam is my jam. But there are so many more products that I just love, and now it&#8217;s time to share them with you. So I just can’t wait for you to see it. Thanks, guys!&#8221; she concluded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comments for the post are disabled. The logo features a palm tree flanked by two hummingbirds, with a photo of Markle and her daughter, Princess Lilibet, debuting on the brand’s website.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This announcement comes just before the release of Markle’s Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” which is slated to begin streaming on March 4.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the number of deportations happening under the Trump administration, the president recently ruled out adding British royal </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prince Harry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the list.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump"><span style="font-weight: 400;">President Trump</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> told </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-rules-out-deporting-prince-harry-takes-jab-at-meghan-markle/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the New York Post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Friday that unlike unlawfully present violent offenders and criminals, Harry isn’t on his radar. “I don’t want to do that,” he told the outlet. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also told the Post that “poor Harry” is “whipped” by his wife, Meghan Markle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, the president praised Prince William, Harry’s older brother and heir to the British throne. Trump said he believes the Prince of Wales is “a great man.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The NY Post noted that Prince Harry’s immigration status is currently being litigated in Washington, D.C. The Heritage Foundation alleges that the former working royal, who quit his job and defected to the United States with his actress wife, might have been untruthful about past illegal drug use on his visa application, which would have been disqualifying. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The conservative organization pointed to revelations in Harry’s best-selling memoir, “Spare,” as proof of his prior hard drug use.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although Trump has not targeted Prince Harry for deportation, he has been vocal about his feelings for the self-exiled royal. In February last year, Trump accused former President Joe Biden’s administration of “protecting Harry” and said he couldn’t promise the same.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable,” President Trump </span><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1870541/donald-trump-deport-prince-harry-joe-biden"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the U.K.’s Daily Express in an interview at the time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The royal couple has also voiced negative feelings about Trump over the years. During the 2016 presidential race, Markle called the president “divisive” and “misogynistic,” prompting Trump to call her statements about him “nasty.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2020, Trump said he wasn’t “a fan” of Markle.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Prince Harry and Meghan Markle chimed in on the U.S. election and essentially encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden,” a reporter told Trump at the time, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-torches-meghan-markle-i-wish-a-lot-of-luck-to-harry-because-hes-gonna-need-it"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “I want to get your reaction to that.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump responded, “I’m not a fan of hers and I would say this, and she probably has heard that, but I wish a lot of luck to Harry … because he’s going to need it.”</span></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kate-middleton"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kate Middleton</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made a “highly unusual move” when she stopped her royal convoy suddenly after she heard a little girl holler “Hello, Princess!” in order to get her attention.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It happened after the Princess of Wales&#8217; trip to a knit wear and sock factory in South Wales on January 30, when 3-year-old Lily-Rose called out, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I want to see the Princess,” so </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kate stopped the car and got out to talk to her, the </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr0ergzw52o"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BBC </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Princess of Wales exited the car and jogged over to the little girl to shake her hand and introduce herself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Thank you for coming to say hello,” Middleton told the child. “I heard you say ‘Hello’ from all the way back there, and I wanted to come and see you.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFdfmx3sG9S/?igsh=MXZqamlwMGZwdnJzdA%3D%3D"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Thursday on Instagram, the little girl asked Princess Kate, “Are you a Princess?” and Middleton replied, “Yeah.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I wanted to come see your village and see what&#8217;s going on here, see this amazing factory,” she added. “They make socks and jumpers. Very interesting!&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lily-Rose then attempted to give the princess her yellow plastic banana toy, not once, but twice. The first time, Middleton handed it back to her saying, “I don’t want to take it.” But t</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">he little girl took it and threw it to the ground. The princess then walked over to get it, bent down to retrieve it, and handed it to the family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Princess Kate walked away, Lily-Rose shouted, &#8220;I want the princess!&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The little girl’s mother, Stacey Chorley, later told the outlet, “It was so exciting. We had no idea that was going to happen.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I hope this is one of the things Lily-Rose will remember,” she added. “Kate was so lovely. She’s very natural and down-to-earth.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Middleton recently shared the exciting news that her cancer was in remission, as previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kate-middleton-gives-incredible-update-on-her-cancer-battle"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a post on </span><a href="https://x.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1879205106383716610"><span style="font-weight: 400;">X</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the official account for the Prince and Princess of Wales, the royal said she wanted to “take the opportunity to say thank you to The Royal Marsden [Hospital] for looking after me so well during the past year.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My heartfelt thanks goes to all those who have quietly walked alongside [Prince] William and me as we have navigated everything,” the message read. “We couldn’t have asked for more. The care and advice we have received throughout my time as a patient has been exceptional.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focussed on recovery,” the Princess of Wales added. “As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal. I am however looking forward to a fulfilling year ahead. There is much to look forward to. Thank you to everyone for your continued support.&#8221;</span></p>
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