Last week, I wondered why “royal sources” and “royal insiders” continue to provide quotes about the Duchess of Sussex’s Instagram and her business in America. I understand why the palace/royal rota WhatsApp lights up with talking points when Prince Harry is doing or saying something about his family. But I cannot understand why the royal courts or the royal reporters continue to believe that they have the right to snidely comment on an American woman’s anniversary Instagram, or continue to trash a woman who left the UK well over five years ago. But Richard Eden at the Daily Mail continues to get “palace insiders” to provide these Meghan-specific quotes. Well, Eden spoke to another palace insider about… Meghan’s Fast Company interview this week. Why in the world would anyone in Buckingham Palace read Meghan’s interview and then provide quotes to Eden?
On Meghan’s As Ever products selling out: I was among those who presumed that Meghan was using the oldest sales technique in the book: deliberately having only a tiny amount of supplies available for sale to create the illusion of huge demand. Soon, I presumed, the range would be replenished with stock that had been held back so that the new company could cash in with further sales. More than 50 days later, however, the online ‘shelves’ remain empty and her website is plastered with sad little ‘sold out’ signs. Despite reports that her raspberry jam ($14 or £10.80) will return to shelves imminently, this week Meghan made an astonishing announcement. It would, apparently, be too ‘easy’ to restock her brand. Instead, she is not going to sell anything more until next year – perhaps not for another ten months.
Netflix probably hates all of this! Goodness know what Netflix makes of it all. The streaming giant – which broadcast Series One of her lifestyle show With Love, Meghan, earlier this year – is a commercial partner in As Ever.
A royal insider comments on As Ever: But, back in London, a royal source tells me they are not surprised by the tortuous development of her brand. ‘Meghan made it clear that she did not always welcome advice,’ says my insider who worked at Buckingham Palace when she and Prince Harry were still working royals.
Harry in Shanghai: Given Meghan’s latest commercial manoeuvres, it is perhaps no surprise that Harry is developing new business connections of his own. This week, he made a surprise trip to China for a tourism conference in Shanghai – in support of his environmental initiative Travalyst, which he founded in 2019 – where he argued for sustainable travel. It was the duke’s first visit to the communist state, but may well not be his last. After all, if Meghan fails to make a fortune from As Ever, Harry could take a leaf out of his cousin Peter Phillips’s book. In 2020, Princess Anne’s son famously appeared in a milk advert on Chinese TV. He was filmed accepting a glass of milk brought to him by a butler, taking a sip and comparing it to the creamy Jersey milk from the royal herd at Windsor that he was ‘brought up on’.
Eden accidentally slamming the left-behinds wasn’t on my bingo card. “Haha, I bet Harry will have to do a milk advertisement, just like his tacky cousin!” Anyway, this story actually made me sad. Sad for those palace insiders, who are apparently still crying about Meghan refusing to take their gold-standard advice, seven years later. Advice like “don’t ever speak up” and “no, you cannot seek mental health services.” All that being said, I have to admit that I also think it’s a mistake for Meghan to not restock some of her As Ever products. Some “insiders” have suggested that she does plan to restock for summer, but she didn’t say that directly in the Fast Company interview.
Photos courtesy of Netflix, As Ever’s IG.
Netflix is her partner. If they “hate this”, they can influence her to change it. She didn’t say no products until next year, she said new products next year. For people who deal in words they don’t seem to understand them. She took their advice to not draw attention by dressing in neutrals and lying low for a while when not doing royal “work”. It didn’t work, she still got attacked in the media. Shows what their advice is worth. Harry isn’t doing anything differently than he has been. If he were to do a commercial and mention the “royal herd” or anything else royal there would be a big outcry, not just the mention that Peter gets for it.
The advice she didn’t take was “either leave Harry or die.”
Richard Eden will die saying Meghan’s name he’s so damn obsessed.
I guess I misunderstood—I thought she was going to add new products next year, not sell anything again until next year. It’s unwise to wait to restock until next year.
I don’t think you did misunderstand. I think Eden has misunderstood. She said new products next year. She did not say in any interview that there would be no more products this year!
ThatGirlThere, you did understand correctly. She has hinted at restocking this year (no specific communication, which is not great) and new products next year. These idiots who have their cats write this crap either are too dense to read properly, or do it on purpose to make her look incompetent.
I hope Maureen is on the Sussexes’ stalker list.
That’s my thought when I see headlines like this – why are you all so obsessed with her!?!? I mean I know she sells and generates clicks but its more than that. its a pathological obsession.
and yes, she said new products next year. I would be very surprised if Netflix was okay with a plan that included product releases once a year, so i’m assuming a restock is coming soon-ish.
Yes the fast coming article was updated to clarify that restocks will be happening & it’s new products that are coming in 2026. Plus people mag, vanity fair etc are reporting that restock of the current line is coming soon. The as ever website even says register to find out about restocks & future collections so idea there won’t be restocks is usual tabloid misinformation.
In the fast company article Meghan mentions going on a field trip with the Netflix team to visit manufacturers and suppliers etc so maybe they need to scale up the production to meet needs
Everything that Eden writes comes straight from KP.. he just parrots whatever hate WanK are spewing.
I think the article first said she won’t, then corrected itself and said she will. People have been having a field day with the first version.
LOL i saw the milk commercial reference coming from a mile away. i think its going to be a while before Meghan can scale up production on her products she would have to have Archwell farms producing honey and growing Berries, for now i think her products are closely aligned to her TV show .
I have asked the same questions for a while now. How can you be a royal expert on a podcast, a TV show, a lifestyle brand? And they never offer any ” expert” opinions on what Jack or Edo should be doing. They don’t claim to have Insiders in the interior design and architecture world and judge every career move they make, but for some reason they know everything that Meghan should be doing.
As for the As Ever restock, she said she would be doing seasonal drops. I know that it sold out fast, faster than she thought and faster than people who wanted it probably liked but it’s only been about six weeks. If she hasn’t restocked anything in November I would say then you could be upset. Being upset that something that was always announced as being seasonal, hasn’t been restocked when it’s the same season it was released in, is a bit much. And indicates how much people don’t understand how supply chain works.
There’s not a genie in the back of the warehouse. If this happens in future drops now that she has an idea you can criticize, but even then you can say okay let’s do three times the amount that we did last time and people could buy four times the amount because they are afraid that it’ll sell out again pretty it’s hard to scale demand.
Yeah, I agree that I’d wait before critiquing restocks. Unlike Eden here jumping up to say something who very may well look like a fool again. As usual. If there’s nothing by November then sure complain if need be. A correction was added to the article from Meghan’s team so I’m going to assume there will be a drop of something. Will it be the raspberry jam? Idk but I hope so.
I agree that we should chill and wait and see. But what she has said so far is strange from a business standpoint. I get that the show and the product line are different, but ultimately, the show is the biggest marketing push, and the steamer is her partner in both. So, putting out a show right on time for the holiday season and not syncing product drops with that sounds less than ideal. And this is what she is saying will happen, I think. However, we should wait and see what happens in the fall, maybe everything will fall into place by then. I wouldn’t be surprised that they have a much more precise business plan, they just don’t want to share.
I don’t recall her ever saying that she was putting out the show for the holiday season and not syncing the rest of the drops around that. She announced that the second season of the show will be coming in the fall which could be anywhere from late September to early November, and that restocks would be coming soon. And that she would be doing new products so not the shortbread cookies, flower sprinkles, etc for 2026. I think people are mixing up what she’s actually said for what they think is happening.
She started out at the beginning of this year saying that she would do seasonal drops, and she did drop one in spring. She has hinted with the strawberry jam and the tea videos that something else would be coming soon probably in time for summer. She has confirmed that the second season of the show is coming out in the fall, and she said she will be releasing new products in 2026. I don’t understand how that’s not clear or weird in a business sense.
@smartandmessy She didn’t say when the product drop will be so how do you know that she is saying there will be no product drop in the fall? She literally did not say that!
Yes, the videos hinted at strawberry jam and tea. I mean she’s got us on here debating what the next drop might be which is definitely hyping anticipation.
Doesn’t she say that the show will air in the fall 2025, which is right on time for the holiday season, but the new products will only drop in 2026, AFTER the holiday season? I was just saying that from a marketing standpoint, I would not separate the two like that. She says she is planning to sell homeware stuff, which would do great during the holiday shopping season.
Restocking the existing products is a different topic, she doesn’t say when she will be able to do that, maybe she doesn’t know. The jam, tea and flower sprinkles were featured in her first show, so restocking that when season two airs is less ideal because it will probably have different signature seasonal products featured.
@Smart&Messy yeah but you have to actually source vendors and suppliers for new products. You have to find a vendor that can produce the quality of products that you are willing to stamp your name on, then you have to find someone willing to distribute it, then you have to work into contracts with them because you aren’t going to be their only customer and contracts for holiday season shipments are already signed because that product has to be in warehouses and ready to ship out to hit stores by the end of August. Products that are sold at the targets, walmart, Costco stores are already in the store by October so that they can be bought for the holiday season which means that they have to already be produced, sent to be packaged and shipped way before then, which means that they would need to be in production now. She just sold out her first offering less than 60 days ago, which is terms for payment for most vendors. This is what I mean about people not understanding the supply chain you can’t just turn this stuff in a few weeks. ( I may be a little sensitive because this is literally my industry)
I think that it would be a mistake to not tie a product launch with the new season of WLM. but when you think about it, she didnt tie the first product launch to WLM – WLM was supposed to come out in January and I dont think the As Ever products were ever supposed to be released in early February (which was the timeline that ended up happening – products released about 4 weeks or so after WLM aired.)
So given that I think we’re assuming she would want to tie the two together and maybe that was never the plan and she and Netflix view the two – show and products – as having very different timelines.
but I’m also assuming that if she wants to have products in stores by October or so (for the holiday season) she would already be working on it. I dont think anyone thinks that Meghan is going to decide in september to launch holiday products in November. Maybe she just said 2026 to underpromise/overdeliver.
I don’t know. I do think there was a restock coming soon though – i know it wouldnt be immediate – but this isnt just Meghan in her home office trying to make this happen. So I think its likely to happen sooner rather than later, even if its just the crepe mix and flower sprinkles.
Meghan has not said that As Ever will not be restocked this year and both People magazine and Vanity Fair got quotes that it would be restocked soon. why would her team brief this if it wasn’t happening and why would they issue a correction to the Fast Company interview that products would be restocked soon if that’s not happening? She said she would be introducing new products next year, she wants to develop the brand not just continue restocking the same products but that does not mean restocks are not going to happen.
Ok I know I will be yelled at for this: Meghan considers herself royal. She uses her HRH and duchess titles, which IS HER RIGHT and I totally think she can use those titles however she pleases. But she IS a royal, incidentally the one who brings in the most business for the press, so I believe it is fair game to report on her. It is not OK, of course, to target her in an institutional-level smear campaign and then gaslight her about it. Plus, it’s a national embarrassment for GB that their press publishes these pieces by people who have a preschooler’s idea about business, streaming, investment and the US in general. That is the part these royal experts have no business doing.
Reporting isn’t what the BM does though.
True. It’s a propaganda arm of the Palaces to support this House of Cards.
THAT part I agree with. It’s all about serving the left-behinds, and they will twist themselves in pretzels to achieve that.
That’s not remotely what is happening though. They don’t have a right to report on her when she’s not a working Royal. They keep tagging her outfits and what it cost and her jewelry with the implication that she’s stealing from the British people.
okay sure but then they can use that energy for other royals including William and Kate.
I don’t see them reporting about born-royals with titles. Princess Eugenie is doing her own thing for years, nobody is following and analyzing her every move, unless she is at a royal event. Meghan being a royal has nothing to do with this. Even if she dropped her titles (not possible), divorced Harry, dropped her children’s titles and their place on succession (again, not possible), they would still report on her breathlessly.
Meghan is a royal fine. But the tabloids themselves said in 2019 if H&M wanted to be left alone by them they should stop taking public funding which they’ve done. And yet they “scrutinise “ Harry & Meghan more than they do any other royal. H&M bring more clicks so it’s just opportunistic the scale of ‘reporting’ they do on them. Plus they have a vendetta against them. But seeing as the press love to claim they hold power to account & report without fear & favour it would be nice if they would apply proper scrutiny & analysis to the royals that are publicly funded.
jESUS cHRIST! “meGhaN coNSiDerS hErseLF rOyAl”
Intelligent onlookers have only ever seen M, by her deeds and utterances, plant herself firmly in the real world where people WORK for a living, raise their kids with as much love and time and energy as possible and EARN her way thru life.
For those with perspicacity, they understand M when she says: “I’ve been a waitress, a princess, a duchess, but the most important title I’ll ever have is mom.”
But I’ll tell you who sees M as “royal”: crown-shaggers and assorted related other critters from Shithole Isle in particular, who have been brainwashed into believing that those nasty unwashed criminals in palaces are better that everyone else, nevermind that those lazy good-for-nothings barefacedly fleece their serfs millions of Pounds every year and demand and receive millions more in increases every year; then turn around and name themselves “PATRONS” of charities from which they demand millions for the privilege of housing their organizations on lands that have been stolen by the forebears of those same criminals in palaces.
So tell us again how a decent, hardworking woman who knows the value of WORKING for and EARNING everything she has, “considers herself royal.”
Fcking ‘ell.
It seems to me that the brand is really just a sort of promotional thing linked to the show, so it will drop in line with each new season. It’s not really meant to have a life as a brand outside it, at the moment anyway. Which is fine, if that’s what they want why not.
It’s interesting that you would say that, because I gathered the complete opposite from what she says 😀 We would have to wait and see which one of us understood correctly.
Meghan said in the interview that the show and business are two separate entities and that’s why her brand is not called With love Meghan. Having the show helps the brand but she’s not relying on the show to promote the business.
I didn’t read the interview yet so I may be wrong. Maybe having the show just brought it forward earlier than planned then so it’s more of a very soft launch.
Meghan Sussex is their glorious public failure, and they can’t accept it. They could not bend her to their will, nor could they break her. They could not corrupt her essence, therefore They must try to make the world see her as they wish she was.
When did Meghan say there would be no restock this year? She has never said that and her team are briefing that restocks are coming soon. What does Eden or any palace insiders know about her business or business model. I am expecting a restock either in the summer or fall to coincide with season two of WLM. I don’t believe for one minute there will be no restock this year. Literally no one has said this on or off the record.
Why is anyone believing what these “palace sources” and “royal insiders” are leaking to this doofus? They know nothing and Eden knows nothing. They make stuff up constantly and are proven wrong over and over again. And as others have pointed out, HRH Meghan didn’t say no restocking until next year or anything like that.
If anything, every accusation is a confession as we know that Meghan – to her own detriment – did try to listen to the palace advice but a certain Prince of Wails never does. The Other Brother brags about not reading briefings and being contrary just because he can.
Yeah, Meghan listened Palace advice and still got attacked in the press.
Articles like this don’t have to make sense because Eden and the Fail are all about the clicks and comments for ad revenue, not high quality journalism. That’s their business model. The Sussexes consistently get multiples of reader engagement compared to Bulliam and Lazy, who rarely do anything reportable and would punish negative coverage. The Fail can bring in that advertisement lucre with this bs because it knows its readers really are that misogynistic, racist, gullible and stupid,
I would expect the next product drop to coincide with season 2 of the show.
And Edens favorite people the senior royal did not welcome Meghan. The insider might be knauf
I find it crazy they’re doing this via an app that can be hacked….the fallout if years of messages got leaked
Looking forward to it!
Not a business woman but an observer. It takes time to organize a Huge launch. If I remember correctly I read in one of Meghan’s interviews her team was scouting locations for restocking. This suggests to me they are planning to sell again very soon. Meghan and Harry are in rooms with movers and shaker’s, I trust their judgement for their economic future.
Those Windsor’s and Wales are the bread and butter for the folks they are contracted to but no, they are constantly sniffing around the Sussexes because this is where the interest is. They have no sources so their small minds create nonsense to have items to report. Happy the hosts of this site check them out because I refuse to contaminate my mind with their nonsense, I just read the summary provided here.
The constant stream of unpleasant articles about Meghan says more about Eden than it does about Meghan.
He’s a deeply unhappy person with such an outlook.
It irks me to no end that Meghan is never given the same grace as others including larger companies that take weeks/months to restock when things are sold out. This is a brand new company so of course it will take a moment to restock (this coming from someone that didn’t get a chance to order anything the first time around).
After listening to Confessions of a Female Founder, I have a new appreciation for the building of a company and have a better understand of how production works. As Ever is a small company it does not have its own production factory so it may take a while to get restocked.
As for Eden & the rest of the ‘royal sources’/’palace insiders’ they have shown time and time again that they know nothing so who cares what they speculate on.
Because they want to smite the Sussexes. They have been waging a war against Meghan since the first day.
Their futile war continues.
My god this person is obsessed with Meghan .
It’s pathetic and scary at the same time .
She is completely in his head , like so many others .
Bravo Meghan 👌
This, a thousand times, this, Bailey S.
Meghan is new to production and inventory. She and her team will figure it out.
The British rota’s obsession with bringing her down is appalling.
If a POC isn’t perfect 24/7, racists consider he/she/they fair game. It’s all about keeping the power to say who’s human and who isn’t. 🤮
I truly believe that the As Ever team didn’t anticipate that they would sell out as quickly as they did. I think people have assumed that stock was held back but it’s clear that there’s nothing and Meghan has decided not to order more items for sale until the next seasonal drop which I think will be in the summer. As for the rest of what Richard Eden wrote, the Palace insiders should probably be concerning themselves with the left-behinds rather than Harry and Meghan.
Yea the fast company article said that Meghan & Netflix did all their forecasts but were still surprised how quick things sold out.
As for listening to palace advice there’s lots of examples of Meghan doing just that- mainly to her own detriment. The palace intervened on Suits scripts as one of its producers confirmed so she was clearly following their guidance on how her character interacted with her love interest on the show. Meghan wrote a letter to her father as the Queen advised which blew up in her face when he sold the letter. Meghan’s texts to Jason also revealed her taking his advice on the letter to her father. At Jason’s request, Meghan updated background info on a palace approved book Finding Freedom which again blew up in Meghan’s face. At the palace’s command Meghan didn’t push back on lies & attacks about her in the press & told her friends to stand down. Meghan stayed indoors for a period during her pregnancy as advised by a senior royal even though she was struggling mentally. Meghan wore muted colors on events with senior royals in line with palace advice.
when Meghan realised she wasn’t being protected at all by the palace is when she actually did something against palace advice: sought her own legal counsel & sued the Fail. Which marked beginning of end of her doing royal duties
They HAVE to write about Harry & Meghan because Harry & Meghan ARE the British Royal Family 🌟…dosen’t matter if they’re on Salt Island or not….so actually I have been LOVING the fact that the Royal rota cabal of deplorables have to SPEND their professional lives making BS up because they will NEVA have an inside on ANYTHING H&M EVA does and THAT FACT HAS TO PISS THEM OFF ON A DAILY!
Shit stirrer in chief Richard Eden again concocts a column to fill out real estate for his gossip spread. The guy earns his income from Meghan’s name. 🤷🏽♀️ If he loses his Daily Mail gig, he will not be able to secure a job at another publication so he will find shit to stir up to stay employed by the DM.