Meg ‘is copying celebs AGAIN & they won't be happy – she'll get in trouble if she doesn't do something original'
MEGHAN Markle has been accused of copying celebrities again with her new wine.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has added Rosé wine to her range of As ever products - which is her first alcoholic beverage.
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Meghan Markle is launching a new brand of rosé wine
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The wine is part of her As Ever brand
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Hugo Vickers has slammed the launch
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Hugo Vickers is a royal expert, known for his books on the
The expert kicked out against Meghan's new drink which is part of her brand As Ever, which includes her jam range.
However, Hugo issued an urgent warning to the Duchess, advising her to make sure that her rosé is different enough to the slew of celebrity alcohol brands which have been released in recent years.
Hugo said: 'And that's where you've got to be jolly careful.
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'Because if you start just sort of taking other people's products and putting your name on it - I'm not saying that she's absolutely exactly done that - if you do something even by accident, then you're going to get into trouble.
'Because people who are less successful, who are selling them or the same thing and seeing them going out under her name, they won't like that definitely.'
He added: 'If you like rosé wine, you'll probably find that you've got a particular one that you like, and I must admit I wouldn't be tempted to go for hers.
'I don't know what hers is, how hers is going to be so different from anybody else's.
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'It's probably going to be more expensive because it has a sort of brand on it.'
He also claimed that much of her popularity can be attributed to her famous husband.
Hugo said: 'Prince Harry gives it a kind of a soap opera element which would otherwise be lacking, because, as you say, there are numerous other celebrities launching products, and you know you see them here and there, and you may be interested in them.
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'You may like the star who's put their name to it, and you might buy it for that reason.'
The expert added that
He said: 'I don't think it's going to concern him very much.
'I think he's probably much more interested in getting to Ascot and seeing whether one of his horses does well.'
She also went viral for her remark that every 'failure' is actually a 'success'.
However, Hugo slammed the comment - saying: 'She must have been doing an awful lot of winning recently, because quite a lot of the things that she's done have not been wildly successful.'
He added: 'I think you do better actually by winning than failing.'
Hugo also had a great tip for readers who are in the market for a new rosé.
He said: 'Buy the palest kind of rosés that you can find, and those do tend to be rather more expensive, and don't buy the ones that look like syrup, because they're horrible.
'But there is a huge different range of rosés, so I don't entirely blame her for having a go at that one especially.
'Listen, we're talking on probably
The Sun has approached Meghan and Harry's representatives for comment.
The 2023 pink booze from Napa Valley, California, will be sold via her As ever website from July 1.
It has been announced alongside two new spreads now available including a Limited-Edition Orange Blossom Honey for $28 (£20).
And she has also restocked six of the original products including $15 flower sprinkles.
But there is no new raspberry spread available after Meg admitted she may never restock the infamous jam spread.
'COPYCAT' BEHAVIOUR
It comes after Pamela Anderson fans accused Meghan of "copying" her Cooking With Love show with her own Netflix cookery programme With Love Meghan - released last month.
And in February, the mayoress of Porres in Majorca complained the logo for the Duchess' lifestyle brand, As Ever, resembled her town's historic coat of arms.
The town's mayor, Francisca Mora Veny, was considering taking legal action against the royal and has asked Meghan to remove the logo.
Ms Mora told The Sun: 'We don't want our coat of arms to be perverted because it belongs exclusively to Porreres.
'The only difference with their logo and our coat of arms is that theirs shows two hummingbirds and in ours are either swallows or pigeons — historians cannot agree.
"We will ask Meghan to remove the logo from their website.'
Even before Meghan became a member of the British Royal Family, she appeared to be looking to others for inspiration.
In her speech for International Women's Day at the UN in 2015, she was accused of lifting whole chunks from one delivered by former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Sun previously compiled a list of seven times, in fact, that Meghan has
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Meghan posted a summery snap online to promote her new range
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She is also selling a new apricot spread, available this summer
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