Late last year, the Duchess of Sussex introduced some new products for her As Ever line: candles! As an avid candle-user, I was super-excited and planned to buy at least one candle. Then I saw the price! While As Ever candles’ price tag – $64 – is in line with other high-end, good-quality candles, I’m way too cheap to spend that kind of money on a candle. Especially not when I can usually find my favorite Tuscany-brand double-wick candles discounted (Warm Birch Woods fam unite). In any case, As Ever offered two different candle scents and I’m sure they sold well, and I hear that people love the scents.
Keep something else in mind: As Ever is still only selling in the United States. The British media has been frantically trying to get their hands on As Ever products for the better part of a year, so much so that they’re finding costly work-arounds, all so they can say that they tasted “Meghan’s wine” or “Meghan’s jam” and then claim they didn’t like it… except for the Times’ blind-taste-testers who actually loved Meghan’s jam. And the NY Post’s and Telegraph’s blind taste-testers who loved her wine. Well, as you can imagine, these fools had to devise something especially stupid for the As Ever candles. Their complaint? As Ever candles are being sent out without wicks! Wouldn’t you know, that freak Dan Wootton magically got a wickless As Ever candle. From Tom Sykes’ ridiculously titled “Meghan Ships Wickless Candle To Her Number One Antagonist.” Meghan did not “ship” anything to Dan Wootton.
In a spectacular own goal for the Duchess of Sussex, one of Meghan’s loudest media critics has received a faulty product from her lifestyle line: a $65 As Ever candle that, on unboxing, couldn’t actually be lit.
Dan Wootton—a former Sun journalist who broke the Megxit story in 2019 and has built a huge following on YouTube and Substack with his often-scathing commentary about the Sussexes—said on social media that his fiancé bought him one of Meghan’s As Ever candles on eBay as a gag gift.
The joke, he revealed, landed twice: first because it was an As Ever candle at all, and then because when he opened the package, the candle had no wick. “My fiancé bought me her candle as a gag and it turned up with no wick!” he wrote, adding, with the relish of a man who can never resist a punchline, “SO I’VE BEEN MARKLED NOW, TOO!”
To be clear, Wootton’s own telling frames this as a secondhand purchase—an eBay buy, not a personal delivery from Montecito. But in the funhouse world of Sussex discourse, the distinction is almost beside the point.
The symbolism is what matters: the Duchess of Sussex’s carefully curated domestic fantasia colliding head-on with the sense that everything she touches is either overhyped or faintly absurd.
“But in the funhouse world of Sussex discourse, the distinction is almost beside the point.” Meaning, “we know this is all bullsh-t and lies but hey, we’re trying to make a living by fueling more hate against a woman for having the audacity to escape our torment.” As I said, Meghan did not “ship” this product to Dan Wootton’s cave or whatever. His “fiance” “bought” it “on Ebay.” I’m sure. And Wootton obviously gets off on being called “Meghan’s antagonist” rather than what he really is – a complete psycho who got fired from all of his jobs because of catfishing, blackmail, fraud and harassment. He also spent years cozied up with all of Prince William’s wickless courtiers. In fact, this bizarre candle scheme sounds like something cooked up by William and his cronies.
Photos and screengrabs courtesy of GB News, As Ever’s Instagram.
The lengths they will go too to try to bring Meg down. A candle off of eBay? Unhinged at its finest!!! Go climb back under your rock Danny boy!!
They claim to be royalists but none of them seem to make this much effort to purchase and review anything the “real royals” are selling. Why aren’t they as eager to get their hands on Charles’ wine and jam, Kate’s special roses, etc? Especially since these items are available in the UK? They’d rather buy something they swear is overpriced from someone they claim is irrelevant.
Yep. Purchased off ebay and the seller said the candle had a wick when he sent it., but said to send it back for a refund. Also, people spotted that when Wootton held up said candle, removed from the container, where the wick had been could be seen at the base.
If he bought it off eBay how is there even a guarantee that it’s a legit As Ever product? Probably a knockoff, which in and of itself shows the popularity of the brand.
Dan Whooton karmically deserves a whickless candle. Heck, Dan whooton is a wickless candle.
Favorite comment ever!!
So the only people that have received a wickless candle from As Ever are a wacko American right wing commentator and a wacko UK right wing commentator? Sure. And Sykes buys it hook line and sinker.
Of course Sykes doesn’t believe Dan Wooton. Sykes is just a nasty troll. The whole tone of the article should tell you this. His whole narrative is Meghan bad and he doesn’t care if he has to lie or promote fictional stories to get his point across. It’s actually starting to make me angry that some people are still turning to Sykes for credible content. The discourse on Lilli’s hair should have been the final straw for right thinking people.
Let it be said that I bought an asever candle. And it has a wick.
I have two candles and they both have wicks and smell lovely.
I share a birthday with Meghan, and would love to have the birthday one!
That said I do not have a candle budget like that. I do have a cat. My cat is not a “knock stuff over” sort of cat, but I tend to avoid open flame in the house. Unless it’s my gas range, and I keep a close eye on that!
Dan Wickless Wooton is hardly a reliable source, much less a journalist. If they want to mention the Sun, then “journalist” should be in quotes.
The fact that Tom Sykes put this ludicrous story on his Substack shows how he has moved from journalist to full time anti Sussex troll. Dan Wooton is not a reliable source nor is the other TikToker that claimed to receive a wick less candle. To pretend that this is in someway Meghan’s fault or occasion to ridicule Meghan is ridiculous. It has become clear Sykes has left journalism behind. I don’t trust a single thing he says anymore, not even his alleged briefings from William’s friends. I fail to see how Sykes is any more credible than Wooton or Angela Levin at this point. His Substack is now a joke and just a location for trolls to gather and spread conspiracy theories.
This almost makes me want to subscribe to Sykes’ substack to rip him a new one in the comments section. I say “almost” because I would never give that liar money.
Best to ignore him and let him sit in his little echo chamber with his fellow trolls.
Urgh, this guy is such a tool.
I was just thinking how enjoyable it has been not seeing pictures of his weasel face every few days.
Maybe Four Takes Wootton aka Ku Klux Dan Rotten…
… should have bought four candles to get one right?
Too bad things like these only happen to Meghan’s haters, and too bad Sykes the Misogynoir has sunk so low that he feels the need to bash Meghan while propping up the lowlife that is DW.
With the way Meghan is about her products, the buyer would get a full refund and a free candle. But people do sell defective things on eBay. Actually, I don’t really believe this story – too many coincidences.
There is no way anything about this story is true. It’s just an excuse for trolls like Wooton and Sykes to get clicks from Sussex haters!
The real problem is how these stories also get clicks from Sussex supporters. I don’t read any tabloids, either UK or US, and as long as a guy complaining about a wickless candle gets attention, they’ll keeping writing about wickless candles.
The only ones that clam their candle didn’t have a wick are the haters. There was another one that said her candle didn’t have a wick and it’s clear she cut it out. Even if it didn’t have a wick you can still use a candle warmer. Dan is a known lying scumbag.
Wow, some people have too much time and money on their hands. They spend $65 for a candle so they can cut out the wick in an obvious manner and then pretend it was defective? All that proves is that the hater is an idiot.
The time to get shirty about a missed wick is if there’s a customer service breakdown. But the As Ever people are hyper in that area. In one of my orders, they mistakenly sent me hibiscus tea instead of peppermint. I was going to send it back, but they said to keep it and they sent the peppermint.
Next Angela leavin and her co-trolls/journalist will buy wickless As Ever Candels… but they said Meghan is wicked🥳
Lol, I see what you did there.
Journalism at it’s finest 🤣
As if he’s got a fiancée. that’s hilarious. and even if they exist they didn’t buy him this. he bought it himself, took himself off to his little Meghan shrine / cupboard and chopped the wick himself.
He’s gay so the “fiance” spelling checks out.
Correct. 🙂
The idiot goes on to say “fiancé” (male) gave me “HER” candle: “My fiancé bought me her candle as a gag…..”. Yet we all know he’s gay as he talked about his boyfriend before. TMI about who’s who in that relationship lol Whadda Tool.
Oh come on. “Her” candle means Meghan’s. Not that hard.
It would have been funny if he gets outbid.
I hope 2026 is the year we leave Tom Sykes behind. He’s not a journalist he’s an unpleasant troll who has appeared on Wooton’s show. These two horrible trolls with their lies and conspiracy theories deserve each other. Sykes has lost all credibility when he writes articles like this!
So just buy a $10 candle warmer and STFU, Dan. FFS.
They are lying about the wickless candles.
This is so sad to me. Dan Wootton is obsessed with Meghan and desperate to get her attention. As I said the other day Tom Sykes is unhinged and deluded.
Mine has a wick. Smells fabulous. Put it in guest bedroom so guests could enjoy during holidays. Expensive yes, but you don’t even have to light it. Here’s the best news; It doesn’t give my husband a migraine.
Wootoo can go suck an egg.
The hand-poured candle method, which As ever uses, involves preparing containers with fixed centered wicks, then carefully pouring cooled wax and allowing to set overnight before trimming the wick, ensuring a handcrafted candle with controlled quality, texture and scent.
Why is this guy purchasing anything made by someone he claims to hate? Common sense would dictate that if you get a defective product return it. Pretty sure that’s what most of us would do.
Huh. I’d forgotten about Dan Wootton. So his fiancee bought him a candle at more than retail price (I just looked and the candles on ebay are around 75-80) as a gag gift to “own” Meghan? I’m sure she’s crying into her millions.
I’ll share this anecdote from this morning here:
My 11 year old woke up not feeling great so I made him some lemon ginger tea from As Ever. He asked if it was Meghan’s tea bc he could tell from the shape of the bag (I’m stingy with my As Ever tea so then he felt special lol.) then he asked what does Harry do all day, does he just sit around while his wife is busy making all the money? She has shows, she’s making tea, she’s making jam, what’s he doing? I told him about Invictus and his memoir and Better Up and his speaking engagements and my son is still convinced that Meghan is the worker in that family lol.
And for the record he doesn’t mean that in the creepy way the British media means it where Harry is trapped under her thumb or something. He just really loves Meghan’s products and Harry doesn’t sell any products LOL.
Ha! I love your son feeling special when he gets Meghan’s tea. Iirc there were rumors that Harry would maybe go into something commercial. It’d be funny if he put out a gin or something. I don’t know that he even drinks gin. It just feels British to me. And I can’t think of an American celeb with a gin brand. There probably is one that I’m just not aware of but it feels like there’s more tequila and whiskey and vodka brands than gin. I actually like gin. It makes me feel like I’m drinking a refreshing pine tree, lol. And Meghan made that red white and blue gin and tonic over the Fourth of July which was cute.
I’m a fan of gin… that said, I was raised by (former) UK folks. I went to a house party for the Charles Hat Party and someone brought Boodles with a floral infusion. It was so good! I sipped it from a china teacup while wearing a tiara and a velvet dress. Lol.
Kinda funny that there’s no American booze. Tequila, Vodka, Whiskey… it’s all from somewhere else. Maybe cider? Don’t tell me that Johnny Appleseed planted all those trees for nothing!
@CatGotMyTongue – Bourbon.
I can only think of a Canadian, Ryan Reynolds’ Aviation Gin.
I’ve never had Boodles. Now, I’m curious. And okay, Ryan with aviation, I felt like someone had to have one. And yeah, bourbon. I’ve always wanted to do the bourbon trail in Kentucky. Love me some liquor but that’s a very sparingly type thing bc I’m too old and it’ll give me a headache past a glass or two.
@CatGotMyTongue: in addition to bourbon, there’s white lightning aka corn liquor.
@jais: ten or so years ago I had the opportunity to tour the Buffalo Trace bourbon distillery which has been in continuous operation for >200 years. They got thru prohibition by finding doctors who’d prescribe it for medical purposes. American ingenuity at its finest!
LOL! My son feels fancy when I pull out the raspberry spread for his breakfast. He has clocked that I don’t want him using it willy nilly, at his leisure, so to speak.
I’m loving these kids being raised on understanding the special treat jam. As it should be.
He tried to go for the chocolate the other day and I was all NOPE lolol.
eBay shows only four sold candles – what are the chances he is lying. Maybe a reporter should reach out to see if any were actually shipped to the UK
Hmm, my As Ever “519” scent candle had a wick and smells amazing. 10/10
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Somebody should tell Dan Wootton you can buy replacement candle wicks off Amazon.
Wooton is a wickless candle. The irony.
Wooten the wickless wonder. Got it!
These people are dangerous. It is only a matter of time before one of them claims to have been “poisoned” by an As Ever food product or claim to find broken glass or a bug in one and sues Meghan. Cheered on by other derangers and trying to use the lawsuit discovery process for any info on her, her business and family. Just psychos!
They already tried to sue her by claiming that the bath salts she made on one episode are dangerous and that they had suffered harm, and the lying opportunist’s lies were exposed and she disappeared without a word after her attempted grift was revealed.
This is the second Meghan hater to claim they received a candle without a wick, strange isn’t it?
If a seller on eBay puts up a tampered product. That seller would be responsible not Meghan
Got an As Ever candle shipped to Ireland and I can confirm the wick is intact and the person who received it from me is thrilled with it and has it on display in pride of place.
Wonder what these people did to the candle to make it “wickless”.
These men live very sad lives.
No one actually believes this. Some other troll already tried the wickless candle ploy and everyone, even his fans, called out it was obvious he dug out the wick himself. The wick goes in the vessel before pouring the wax. Basic quality control. Interesting how “ defective” products are only sent to trolls. So not only is Wooten a liar, but he’s also a content stealer, even if he steals from another lying sleaze ball.