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Miami Herald
30-06-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Meghan Markle Had ‘Absolutely No Compromise' on Quality With As Ever
Meghan Markle's lifestyle brand has been selling out in minutes because she is taking time to increase stock without sacrificing quality, a source told Newsweek. As Ever is already producing products, including jams, flower sprinkles, and tea, at a "significant scale," and the same will apply to her first wine, a Napa Valley rosé, to be launched on July 1. Meghan's first product run sold out in minutes in April, and she recently said on the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast that another instant sell-out would be frustrating to customers ahead of the second run in June. The company's online shop was then inundated with half a million page views in the week it launched the second batch of products, and completely sold out again. A source told Newsweek that Meghan was determined not to sacrifice quality and taste, which has meant it has taken time to increase supply. "The supply chain is constantly changing as the business is growing, as is very normal for any business that's trying to scale," they said. "The critical thing is maintaining the quality of the product, and sure, you can just go to any bottling plant and anyone who is growing raspberries anywhere in the country and get it done really quickly. "The reason it's taking time is because there's been absolutely no compromise on the quality, and the ingredients, and the flavor. "The rate at which the product seems to sell out regardless of the scale and the numbers its proving very difficult but that's a great problem to have." Claims on social media that Meghan has deliberately limited the quantities to ensure a sell-out run are "just complete nonsense," the source told Newsweek. "We're talking significant scale." Last week, the British press accused Meghan's brand of hiking prices after it was revealed that the company The Republic of Tea supplied her teas. The Republic of Tea sells its own line for less than half the price of Meghan's. A source told Newsweek that As Ever's hibiscus tea was a different blend and also had more expensive packaging. "The hibiscus tea that they sell and the hibiscus tea that she sells, sourced from them, is different. It's a different blend. Her tea is an entirely unique, bespoke blend," they said. "If you look at the way it is packaged up, there are lots of differences. The packaging and the production that As Ever uses is more expensive than the stuff Tea Republic uses." As Ever sells three types of tea for $12 each: Lemon Ginger, Hibiscus, and Peppermint. Each set includes 12 tea bags in a metal tin. The Republic of Tea charges $14.50 for 36 bags of hibiscus tea in a metal tin. Newsweek has been told the duchess sourced her first wine using grapes from the vineyards of Fairwinds Estate. The Napa Valley rosé is bottled at the Kunde Family Winery in California. Meghan was particularly eager to support Fairwinds because it was one of the vineyards ravaged by wildfires in the region five years ago. "In 2020, there were the massive, massive fires that ripped through Napa Valley," the source told Newsweek. "Fairwinds was one of those vineyards, and they're still feeling the effects today. "It caused over $15 million worth of damage and the duchess and the duke have both contributed significantly to businesses that have been impacted and affected." The wine launches on Tuesday, July 1, and the As Ever team predicts demand will be high again. "This is her first foray, but I'm sure there will be the naysayers and the usual suspects out there who will claim that she's only bottled 50 bottles," the source told Newsweek. "That is definitely not the case." "It's an entirely bespoke, entirely unique, curated blend. She spent months and months and months testing and tasting and letting her friends do testing and tasting and sampling, giving notes back. She's put a lot of love and care into it," they said. Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on Twitter at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page. Do you have a question about King Charles III, William and Kate, Meghan and Harry, or their family that you would like our experienced royal correspondents to answer? Email royals@ We'd love to hear from you. Related Articles Princess Charlotte's Big Sister Moments Go ViralMeghan Markle to Release First Wine Amid WarningsTears as Amal Clooney Honors Girl Who Rejected 'Child Bride' PathPrince George's Aura Goes Viral: 'Future King' 2025 NEWSWEEK DIGITAL LLC.
Elle
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Meghan Markle Tucked a Sweet Clip of Lilibet Into Her New As Ever Instagram
THE RUNDOWN Meghan Markle celebrated her lifestyle brand As Ever's second drop selling out with a behind-the-scenes look at the products. At the end of the video, the Duchess of Sussex tucked in a sweet clip of her with her 4-year-old daughter, Lilibet. 'A little behind the scenes of @aseverofficial,' she wrote. 'Hope you enjoy your treats when they arrive this week! 🍯 ' Meghan last shared three tributes to Lili for her fourth birthday on June 4. 'Happy birthday to our beautiful girl!' she wrote in her first post. 'Four years ago today she came into our lives—and each day is brighter and better because of it. Thanks to all of those sending love and celebrating her special day!' In a second post, she shared photos of Lili with Harry. 'The sweetest bond to watch unfold 💕' she wrote. 'Daddy's little girl and favorite adventurer. Happy birthday Lili!' In her final Instagram, Meghan posted a clip of her dancing with Harry in the delivery room. 'Four years ago today, this also happened,' she wrote. 'Both of our children were a week past their due dates…so when spicy food, all that walking, and acupuncture didn't work—there was only one thing left to do! 😂' During her recent appearance on the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast, Meghan addressed the dancing video and explained why she chose to post it online. The clip serves as 'a really great reminder that, with all the noise or whatever people do, there's still a whole life,' she said. 'A real, authentic, fun life that's happening behind the scenes. I'm just grateful that now, being back on social as well, I have a place where I can share it on my own terms.'
Perth Now
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex gets Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to operate a 'little farmer's market stand'
Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet operate a "little farmer's market stand" in their local community. The children's mother, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, explained she and her husband Prince Harry are keen for their kids to "understand the value of things", so not only are the youngsters encouraged to help out in their garden in Montecito, California, the young prince, six, and his four-year-old sister also get to sell what they produce because the couple feel they can learn a lot that way. Appearing on the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast, Meghan was asked if she talked about money "or that type of thing" with her children and she replied: "We sometimes do a little farmer's market stand. "We grow a lot of veggies and part of what I want them to learn is, and gardening is really so great for children, 'cause it teaches them patience, teaches them to value and appreciate their food. "So you start from seed and you watch it grow, and they wait. But with that, it's like, now do you want to sell your harvest? And do you want to share it with our community? And also, what do you want to do with those funds once you have them? "So really starting to understand as they're learning counting and numbers and all of those things, that there's a cost and a price for things. "And I think that's key for children to understand that, especially children who are very lucky to have a home that has privilege. "You need to know that, just like manners, and taking care of the things around you, there is a value on things. "In our life, for my husband and I, it's really important that they understand the value of things." Meanwhile, Meghan also admitted she is delaying a second season of her own podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, because she is keen to take on the advice from her guests and focus on her lifestyle brand As Ever for the time being. She said: 'What an amazing opportunity, to pull back the curtain and let people see what's happening at the start, to have the opportunity to talk to so many female founders who've been on that full trajectory, that are on the other side of success. To be able to be really candid and vulnerable personally about my learns and stumbles along the way. 'And to then take everyone's advice, and mine included, and to say 'I love that there's so much excitement and desire for another season, but I need to focus on my business.'' The 43-year-old former actress insisted she wouldn't be shelving the series forever. She said: 'So does it mean it won't come back? No. But I would love to bring the show back when I am at a different end of my founder journey. "When I've gone through Q4 and say, 'Here are my proof points. Wow, what a year it's been.' Or even longer than that. I think a different time will be so exciting to be able to compare and contrast.'
Newsweek
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Meghan Markle Shows She's Still Not Ready to Accept Her Flaws
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Meghan Markle was asked what she would have done differently to re-write her narrative and responded: "I would ask people to tell the truth." The Duchess of Sussex was asked the question as a guest on the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast, but her answer is problematic for a number of reasons. The most obvious is that the veracity of some of her own and Prince Harry's past statements has been called into question. However, there is a second underlying issue, which is that she did not actually answer the question that was put to her, and swerving it speaks to a longstanding flaw in her messaging. Meghan Markle attends the Children's Hospital Los Angeles gala at L.A. Live Event Deck, in Los Angeles, California, on October 5, 2024. Meghan Markle attends the Children's Hospital Los Angeles gala at L.A. Live Event Deck, in Los Angeles, California, on October 5, Meghan Markle Told Emma Grede About 'The Truth' Grede asked Meghan: "If you could rewrite your public narrative from scratch, is there anything that you would do differently?" The duchess replied during Tuesday's episode: "Yes, I would ask people to tell the truth." The remark sparked a perhaps predictable backlash from the British press, with some newspapers going as far as suggesting it was a veiled attack on the monarchy. It is easy to see how some might view the comment as hypocritical after some of Meghan and Harry's own statements have been publicly questioned. For example, Meghan's account of an unnamed royal expressing "concerns" about her unborn child's skin tone in March 2021 prompted King Charles III to write to Meghan to say the comment was simply curiosity, according to biography Endgame. And when Harry told ITV in January 2023 that Meghan had never accused the royals of racism but rather unconscious bias, it prompted some to argue that if the public had misinterpreted her comments, the couple should have corrected the record right away instead of waiting around a year and a half. Dickie Arbiter, a former spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth II, also said he was misquoted in Prince Harry's book, Spare, which suggested he was part of a "Fleet Street jury" and "concluded, with his fellow jurors, that we should hereafter 'expect no mercy'" following the couple's decision to quit royal life. In reality, the quote had come from British journalist Sir Trevor Phillips, while Arbiter told Newsweek he deserved an apology, though he did not get one. There are innumerable other examples, from the Archbishop of Canterbury correcting Harry and Meghan's account of marrying in secret to the couple contradicting each other in relation to Meghan's first curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II. In their 2022 Netflix biopic, Meghan said she messed up the curtsy: "I mean, Americans would understand this. We have Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament [a dinner theater]...it was like that." But in Spare, Harry wrote: "Meg went straight to her and dropped a deep, flawless curtsy." And, of course, Queen Elizabeth II responded to their 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview with the famous line: "Some recollections may vary." The problems, though, go beyond the question of whether it is hypocritical for Meghan to demand the truth from others. Prince Harry Denounces the Media Days Into Their Relationship Not least of all, the couple effectively did ask people to tell the truth, albeit using a more elaborate form of words. Harry released a statement through Jason Knauf, the communications secretary at Kensington Palace, on November 8, 2016, just more than a week after their relationship became public knowledge, which stated: "The past week has seen a line crossed. His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. "Some of this has been very public—the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments. "Some of it has been hidden from the public—the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of papers; her mother having to struggle past photographers in order to get to her front door; the attempts of reporters and photographers to gain illegal entry to her home and the calls to police that followed; the substantial bribes offered by papers to her ex-boyfriend; the bombardment of nearly every friend, co-worker, and loved one in her life." The reference to "defamation" and a "smear" was a clear indication Harry felt the stories in the papers were untrue. And that was itself a re-iteration of Harry's longstanding and very well-known position in the British media. For example, when he turned 21, he gave an interview in which he spoke about how protective he was of then-girlfriend Chelsy Davy: "I suppose that is the media in general. There's truth and there's lies and unfortunately I can't get the truth across because I don't have my own column in the paper." Meghan also made similar comments during an interview in 2019 for ITV documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey: "I never thought this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair. And that is the part that is hard to reconcile." All of these interventions were interpreted as pleas for the media to tell the truth at a point when Harry had very firmly established his position that the tabloids were full of lies. Needless to say, none of these interventions resolved the couple's conflicts with the media. Harry and Meghan's Inability to Acknowledge Their Own Flaws In reality, Meghan's answer has the effect of deflecting the question away from how she might have done things differently and onto her frequently repeated existing narrative about what others should have done differently, namely, she wanted them to tell the truth and feels they did not. And it has been said for years that for all their criticisms of other people, Harry and Meghan have done nowhere near enough to acknowledge their own flaws. Rather than batting the question away, Meghan could have finally engaged with the idea that some aspects of her current situation may be a product of her own past mistakes. Prince Harry told Anderson Cooper during his 60 Minutes interview in January 2023: "Meghan and I have continued to say that we will openly apologize for anything that we did wrong, but every time we ask that question, no one's telling us the specifics or anything." However, that statement is hard to reconcile with the passage of his book Spare, in which he described tensions with the staff: "Nerves were shattering, people were sniping. In such a climate there was no such thing as constructive criticism. All feedback was seen as an affront, an insult. "More than once a staff member slumped across their desk and wept. For all this, every bit of it, Willy blamed one person. Meg. He told me so several times, and he got cross when I told him he was out of line." The question of whether there is anything Meghan and Harry might have done differently may well come up again in the future, and it might not be the worst idea for them to have an actual answer for it that does not deflect the blame onto others. Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page. Do you have a question about King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Prince William and Princess Kate, Meghan and Harry, or their family that you would like our experienced royal correspondents to answer? Email royals@ We'd love to hear from you.
The Hill
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hill
Meghan Markle says she ‘would ask people to tell the truth' in new podcast episode
(NewsNation) — Meghan has revealed how she would rewrite her public narrative if given the chance on the latest episode of Emma Grede's podcast. The 43-year-old appeared in Tuesday's episode of 'Aspire with Emma Grede.' In the 90-minute episode, Grede asked Meghan about the public's perception of her and what she would change if she had the chance. 'I would ask people to tell the truth,' Meghan revealed. 'A lie can't live forever. Eight years is a long time, but it's not forever.' Meghan was in the spotlight before she started dating Prince Harry in 2016 as one of the lead actresses on USA Network's Suits. Markle married Harry in 2018 and performed her royal duties until the couple stepped back in 2020 and moved to the United States. Since they stepped back, both Harry and Meghan have talked about the mistreatment they received while doing their royal duties and how the palace didn't protect them. In 2021, the couple shared their story in a CBS interview. They also revealed a lot more in their 2022 docuseries 'Harry & Meghan' on Netflix. Meghan also spoke with Grede about a video she recently posted on Instagram that has gone viral. The 'baby mama dance' video was a throwback that she posted for her daughter, Princess Lilibet's, birthday. Grede told Meghan that she did a 'little secret cheer' when she saw the video that Meghan had filmed in the delivery room before Lilibet was born. Meghan explained that the clip 'was four years ago.' She also told Grede, 'So it's also a really great reminder that with all the noise or whatever people do, there's still a whole life — a real, authentic, fun life — that's happening behind the scenes.' She also said, 'I'm just grateful that now, being back on social as well, I have a place where I can share it on my own terms.' Meghan rejoined Instagram back in January after years of being off social media completely. 'I'm just grateful that now, being back on social as well, I have a place where I can share it on my own terms,' she added, referring to her personal social media handle. On the podcast, Meghan said she and Harry have been working with Netflix for five years. Netflix also fully produced Meghan's 'As Ever' product line. Her show, 'With Love, Meghan,' had dropped off the streaming service's top ten list in less than a week. Netflix also fully produced Meghan's 'As Ever' product line. NewsNation's Paula Froelich reported that Meghan's Netflix show will still be given a third season, regardless of viewership, because the streaming giant is invested in making her products and show a success. Froelich heard that many people are 'done' with the Sussex family at Netflix, but the third season will be used to see if commerce and entertainment can be combined for profit.
