Last Friday, there was a steady drumbeat of bad headline after bad headline about Prince Andrew, all leading up to his big move of announcing that he was giving up his ducal title and his honors. Since then, a million stories have been published about Andrew and the House of York. I bring up the timeline because it’s astonishing to see how many stories were also published about the Duchess of Sussex in the hours and days after Andrew’s big announcement. Almost as if the same old rancid courtiers, royalists and editors decided to run the exact same play they’ve been running for six-plus years: whenever Andrew is in trouble, attack the Sussexes, particularly Meghan. Well, the Mail’s Alison Boshoff had a particularly unhinged story about Meghan’s “maneuvers” this month, from Meghan’s Paris Fashion Week appearance to her Q&A session with Fortune, to her meeting with Vogue’s new editor-in-chief. They are desperate to put the most negative spin on all of this.
It was obvious from her appearance in Paris during this month’s Fashion Week that Meghan was planning to place a dainty, size-six foot in the fashion world. For while the Duchess of Sussex may have accumulated many baubles, one long-held dream still eludes her: being awarded the cover of a high-end fashion magazine.Her Paris jaunt led to much speculation she was soon to announce she had made the cover of Vogue.
Indeed Meghan, a bold networker, shared hugs and air kisses with all-powerful global Vogue boss Anna Wintour and with American Vogue’s new editor, Chloe Malle, at the Balenciaga show in Paris. She also met with Malle when she was in New York on Friday last week. The two women were seen sharing what appeared to be cocktails in a booth at the Whitby hotel.
But while I’ve been told the Duchess is intent on building up her relationship with the venerable Conde Nast magazine, and does have a fashion magazine cover in the pipeline, it is not with Vogue. Rather, my sources exclusively tell me, Meghan has made a deal to appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, published by media giant Hearst.
This cover will be a first for Meghan – who made the cover of Vanity Fair while dating Prince Harry – as she has yet to land the attentions of a high-fashion magazine. (While she guest edited the September 2019 edition of Vogue, she didn’t put her own face on the cover.)
Her meetings with Vogue supremos Wintour and Malle are, I can reveal, better viewed as Meghan trying to ‘reset’ relations. Because, as we shall see, there was a falling-out between her and the then UK Vogue Editor Edward Enninful three years ago, after the Duchess made high-handed demands of him – and it did her few favours with Anna Wintour.
While there was much talk of Meghan being pictured with Wintour, few remarked on her appearance at the Balenciaga show with Samir Nasr, the editor in chief of Harpers Bazaar. But it is Harper’s which has secured the Meghan ‘scoop’.
So is Meghan ‘on manoeuvres’ –and is this magazine cover step one of a comprehensive relaunch? Meghan 3.0, if you will? Well-placed insiders tell me the sudden burst of activity – which included an appearance at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event in Washington this week – doesn’t quite indicate anything so thought-through. The source said: ‘Her PR team are just putting her out there in a hopeful way without a plan. They aren’t being discerning and protecting her from herself. It seems they think every media opportunity is a good one and that’s insane.’
The source adds: ‘There is no strategy here. It is thoughtless and directionless. One day she is in Paris at the fashion show, positioning herself in that world, and then she shows up in Washington with Fortune magazine and wants to be regarded as a female founder. But she’s got nothing to launch, nothing to announce and nothing to say. It’s a mess. The Sussexes seem to be spiralling. They are throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. I don’t understand why she would do a magazine cover when she has nothing coming out. It is evident that either she isn’t being advised properly or else she isn’t listening. Honestly, whoever is in charge shouldn’t even be putting this stuff in front of her, to protect her from herself.’
You have to understand the “magical thinking” that goes alongside these stories. What could have been a simple exclusive (which may or may not be true) about Meghan appearing on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar has to be twisted into “Meghan is desperate for a fashion cover, she has nothing to announce except for all of her projects, Anna Wintour hates her, believe us!!” Anna Wintour doesn’t hate her, and I strongly suspect that Meghan has been offered the cover of American Vogue before and turned it down. I also suspect that Meghan has turned down other fashion covers before. Just because the Mail’s lunatic-asylum sources claim that Meghan’s strategy is a “mess” does not make it so. These people are too stupid to understand how a woman could appear at a fashion show AND be a female founder.
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- Paris, FRANCE Meghan Markle was seen leaving her hotel on her way to the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week, wearing a stylish white oversized cape over a white button-down shirt. She paired it with black pointed-toe heels and simple accessories, giving off a vibe of effortless elegance, topped off with a sleek, slicked-back bun. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 4 OCTOBER 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE Meghan Markle was seen leaving her hotel on her way to the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week, wearing a stylish white oversized cape over a white button-down shirt. She paired it with black pointed-toe heels and simple accessories, giving off a vibe of effortless elegance, topped off with a sleek, slicked-back bun. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 4 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Aissaoui Nacer / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was seen leaving the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris, looking stunning in an elegant black dress as she made her way through the city during Paris Fashion Week. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 4 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Aissaoui Nacer / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was seen leaving the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris, looking stunning in an elegant black dress as she made her way through the city during Paris Fashion Week. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 4 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Aissaoui Nacer / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Paris, FRANCE Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, was seen arriving at Sugaar restaurant in Paris, looking beautiful in an elegant black dress. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 4 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala at Spring Studios in New York City. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala at Spring Studios in New York City. Pictured: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
Good grief. When she turns 80, they will publish a screed about Meghan Eight Point Oh!
Sail on, silvergirl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine 🎶🎵
@Ideas, that is a deep cut. Thanks for a big smile to start my day! 🌻
LOL. I was dying with laughter and thinking when Meghan Sussex reaches 70, the Daily Fail will be up to Meghan relaunch 17.0.
Do these people understand marketing, networking, promotion? I know their goal is to minimize what Meghan does, and to some extent what Harry does, but it’s like they always frame it as if she’s the first person to ever do these things. First she attended a fashion show wearing the fashions of the designer, and then she went and spoke on a panel for female entrepreneurs, and spoke about the business she started this year! I don’t see the connection! What is her team doing?!
She went to PFW Balenciaga because it would get eyes on her and because it was her friend’s first show. She went to New York because she was being awarded by an organization that she’s worth closely with for years. She went to DC to speak about starting her business this year, which has launched plenty of things, and reflecting on her successes and setbacks in that area. All of these things make sense in the space she is in. But as I always say they have a box that you are put in. There is no straying outside of that box. Either she’s an entrepreneur, or she’s a fashion person, or she’s a philanthropist she can’t be all three because they don’t know how to cover that.
@Dee(2)
Respectfully, I disagree. They would have no problem covering such an array of roles and activities from someone they like.
Look how hard they’ve tried to give Kate various roles to show she has a personality and is value-added for the Firm: she’s a mum! a photographer! an outdoorswoman! a fashion icon! a “secret weapon!” blah blah blah whatever.
They despise Meghan and can’t stand that she and Harry are thriving without the approval and support of the UK. So they will do and say anything to try to diminish her accomplishments. At this point, after two weeks like this, all they can come up with is — Yeah, she’s been everywhere lately and everyone loves her but TRUST US THAT’S ACTUALLY A BAD THING! IT’S BAD! BECAUSE WE SAY SO!! *sob choke sob*
They’re just angry toddlers lying on their bellies in the grocery aisle having a screaming, red-faced tantrum.
Oh no I meant they don’t know how to cover her. They have a caricature of her and they don’t know what to do. Of course they could cover someone they do like that way, they assign undeserving credit all the time. My larger point was that they don’t know what to do with her specifically. She’s supposed to be this person and she’s not cooperating.
Also that they frame common things like they are unheard of with her specifically, which doesn’t make sense in general.
@Dee(2)
I agree, you’re absolutely right, and as we know Meghan said it herself, they’ve created a caricature of her that has nothing to do with reality.
And she consistently blows that caricature up in their faces, just by living her life as the excellent person she is, and try as they might they can’t figure out any effective way to take her down. They try and they Fail, over and over. Gotta love it 😎
No they don’t understand anything this is just them trying to sling some shit on her to distract from the VERY BIG PEDO PROBLEM!!!
Those pesky sources again! The ones that never seem to know anything about the Sussexes until after it’s announced, lol. Or the ones that are completely wrong all the time, like when they said WME is going to drop Meghan or the Sussexes are on the verge of divorce, or broke or sending Archie to Eton. This “source” sounds an awful lot like that Mark Borkowski, the one who keeps insisting that publicity for a client is somehow bad, even though everyone is talking about Meghan.
They need to stop. I’m old enough to remember how these rota rats repeatedly insisted on giving Duchess Keen the credit for anything Meghan did. They inadvertently caused the Sussex Squad to launch the hilarious #katemiddletonsuccessstory memes back in the era of twitter. Some were so funny, they required a quick trip away from the desk!
The Sussex Squad may be a little quiet but we are still here. IJS. Their nasty hate campaigns birthed the #GlobalSussexBabyShower. That was a powerful social media moment. The Squad’s love for Meghan and Harry raised so much money so fast that charities like Well Child, the Mayhew and Camfed were overwhelmed. They’d never received so many American donations before.
The Sussex Squad baby shower campaign even stretched to a global tree planting program. But that baby shower was unprecedented. It was covered by many platforms. I dare the rota rats to try the usual sabotage. As the people across the pond like to say, “it will end in tears.”
Like Anna didn’t push out Edward from British Vogue, how often do you see Anna excited to see anyone.
Poor Edward he did a song and dance to get Honors award, but where can he use?
I think Edward thought he could push Anna out. I wonder if he thought Meghan could help him get American Vogue and maybe talk him up? Meghan, not being stupid of course probably told him good luck with that and see ya later. Either way, it looks like Edward is the one out in the cold.
The article doesn’t even make sense. ‘As we will see Meghan had a falling out with Edward Enninful’. Then they proceed to provide zero information that any of this ever happened. Or that she has bad relations with anyone in fashion. Enniful is long gone from Vogue and now nothing but a man with a magazine that no one is reading! So even if they are no longer friends (zero evidence to suggest any of the Vogue stories are true) why would anyone care?
The piece is just criticising her for being out and about. She’s just living her life and the British press hates that. Plus if she was so desperate for a magazine cover why didn’t take the opportunity to be on British Vogue? That’s what Enniful wanted and it’s probably part of the reason why he doesn’t like her. I also think he didn’t like that her issue was the biggest of his entire Vogue career and he’s a royalist.
Does he not like her though? When Meghan and Harry got their NAACP award Meghan said it was Edward that put her in touch with the designer!
He’s said and done some shady things to Meghan since she’s left the UK. That’s what I’m going on.
“The Sussexes seem to be spiralling. They are throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.”
Oh, the irony!! Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
This made me laugh too. If they’re spiraling then let me spiral the way they are — in a mansion sipping her own brand of wine, with a charitable foundation, a Netflix deal, and an upscale product line.
An opinion from an unnamed source is not worth the paper it is printed on.
“[S]he’s got nothing to launch, nothing to announce and nothing to say.“
— Eh?
Right?
Quite unlike someone who’s keen to announce an announcement where an announcement will be made…
… and then won’t follow up with anything of substance.
“She’s got nothing to launch.”
I am absolutely amused at how stupid they are; they have learned nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The Sussexes do, on occasion, announce what they will be doing. But they are also known for presenting a finished, completed project without months and months of vague lead up.
They, especially Meghan, are do-ers. They don’t keen. They do. And I love that, after all these years, that still throws the BM off in rage spirals.
It made me laugh bc I’m sure these magazines will take her regardless of what she’s launching – but also, they have no clue what she’s launching or when. Maybe this cover is meant to tie into the holiday special of WLM and a new housewares line or something. The DM would have zero knowledge of that.
All of Meghan’s activities and appearances over the last few weeks make sense for her role – a celebrity businesswoman who is well connected and prioritizes her philanthropic interests/goals but also is pursuing her own business right now. She’s appearing at different events because she has her hands in a lot of pots right now. No one complains when Angelina Jolie goes from a movie premiere to a charity event. No one complains when Jennifer Garner posts a cooking video, a farm video, a backstage photo and a Save the Children video in one week. I would say “women at that level have a variety of different projects” but don’t all women? I’m a lawyer by day, royal commentator by night, soccer treasurer, wine connoisseur, theater director, etc. They’re trying to put Meghan in one little box but thats not how people work in general.
Also she was invited to be on the cover of British Vogue and turned it down. I just feel like the Mail needed to be reminded of that.
Those gutter rats must dream about Meghan. This is the first thought that came to me.. Meghan is a multifaceted human. She has interest in a variety of things, female empowerment, entrepreneurship, philanthropy , caring about herself and her family. She is no different from many. The difference if any could be how very intelligent she is compared to others. She does podcasts, Tv shows, great interviews and you always note her intellectual acumen. For me their fear is they cannot pigeonhole her to one best thing because her mind is very active and she pivots. Because you have and like nice clothes and attend fashion shows does not mean you are a fashionista, because you speak well and have political opinions does not mean you want to be a politician.. To me it shows you are interested in the world and you are conscious about how you present yourself. I pay very little attention to those gutter rats because they write from a place of fear.
This person who has never met Meghan , thinks that she’s more aware of Meghan’s deepest dream and it’s to be on the cover of a high fashion magazine like Vogue, yet when she was guest editor for Vogue UK and she had the opportunity to decide who’s face would be on the cover, she chose multiple women faces and excluded her own. She’s been friends with Anna Wintour and there’s photos and video proof of their connections throughout the years, even before Harry. Even Anna has said great things about her when asked, so her being on the cover has never been a dream that wasn’t possible if she really desperately wanted it. Just because Kate can’t be a real humanitarian, an entrepreneur, fashionable and speak coherently doesn’t mean that Meghan or other women aren’t capable of being more than just one thing at a time. Meghan’s has been beautiful, intelligent and multifaceted long before she met Harry. That’s why she has photos and videos of her as an actress, model, philanthropist, gave powerful speeches and she ran the Tig all at the same time. The Fail needs to stop lowering the standards of what a woman is because they use Kate as the template. She’s the lowest of the female standards and it’s getting old.
So funny because just yesterday I was at the grocery store, and had to look at the grinning mugs of Kate and William on some random magazine cover by the self check-out. It was a family photo and the headline was something like “William and Kate! The Kids! The Dog!” A lot of hot air and bother about nothing. Like, they exist! Here’s a pic!
The irony.
They have absolutely no idea what Meghan is doing at any given time. If they had “sources” ANYWHERE, they would’ve known ahead of time that she was attending PFW. These Meghan articles are now just for clicks, they have no substance – maybe except to the derangers who believe everything they read in the DM and other tabloid news outlets.
How dare Meghan be seen outside of Montecito, in Paris, NYC, DC!?! Who does she think she is?
Sykes uses the same lines saying Meghan is on manoeuvres, directionless etc., and it’s a mixture of the usual denigration and complete lack of understanding that Meghan is an incredibly focused and ambitious woman, capable of handling multiple projects – the latter being something they’re not used to with their “working” royals.
I have to say that the British education system seems pretty horrible if the students they turn out are so stupid.
Nothing to launch? Where have they been this past year? How about her IG page, WLM, As Ever? The new partnership with Parents Together? And what’s wrong with being on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar?