A few months ago, we discussed the situation with Emma Thynn, the Marchioness of Bath. Thynn is one of the “stars” of Ladies of London: The New Reign, and because everyone over there is singularly obsessed with the Duchess of Sussex, Thynn’s LoL introduction was very heavy on the comparisons to Meghan. Thynn married into British nobility, and she’s “using her title” to be a tacky reality-show star, yet someone on the show claimed that Emma Thynn was the first Black woman with a title or whatever.
Meanwhile, Thynn has been doing all she can to break into the American market too. Thynn has been in New York for much of the past week, attending fashion events and pre-Met Gala events and trying to cozy up to much bigger celebrities. The photos in this post are from a reception for photographer Steven Klein, and as you can see, Emma was extra-cozy with Edward Enninful. Looks like we’re seeing some of the Daily Mail’s sourcing, right? Well, that’s not all. Over the weekend, Thynn tried to cozy up to Serena Williams when she knew the paparazzi were snapping pics. Thynn actually grabbed Serena’s arm. The Daily Mail dutifully reported that Serena “has thrown another ‘subtle dig’ at Prince Harry’s wife by stepping out at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s star-studded pre-Met Gala celebration in New York, alongside Emma Thynn, 40…Some fans have long accused Meghan of copying the Marchioness, who also has a lifestyle programme, and like the Duchess, produces homemade jam from her Longleat estate.” I can pretty much guarantee that Meghan doesn’t know that this woman exists. I doubt Serena knew the backstory either. Speaking of all of these suspicious maneuvers, the Mail’s Talk of the Town column included this:
Has the Marchioness of Bath stolen Meghan Markle’s crown? I only ask as Emma Thynn attended the NYC Gala last week with the Duchess’s former bestie Edward Enninful, greeting King Charles on his US tour.
Emma also has a lifestyle programme and, like Meghan, produces home-made jam from her Longleat estate. The last time I saw Emma I asked her what she thought of claims Meghan had copied her. She raised her eyebrow and said: ‘No comment.’
Imagine clout-chasing Meghan’s JAM. Well, they’ve all tried to do it too. We all know that Meghan is not the first person in the world to create a line of jams/spreads. But the way these people are like “I MAKE JAM TOO, I MADE JAM BEFORE MEGHAN” is bizarre. The royals do the exact same thing. “We have jam too, buy OUR jam to show Meghan!” And it’s clear that the royal system and people like Enninful are using Thynn and setting her up as Meghan’s foil, with Thynn as “the good Black woman, who knows her place.” See, we can’t be racist because we like HER and we’re using her to get the attention of the subject of our racist hate campaign!
Thynn made sure to pose with Serena, Venus and Enninful at the Met Gala too. Is Thynn, like, some kind of Daily Mail operative or something? Is she being sponsored by the British tabloids?
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Who? The tabloids over there really don’t seem to understand the fact that most of their ‘celebrities’ don’t even register over here. I’m sure Venus and Serena were both like who the f?
Brit here, she’s not famous in the UK either unless you watch Z list reality shows.
They did a programme about Longleat and the family some years ago – the family is very strange – her father in law had numerous women in his life and was definately ‘unusual’. She is ,as Emily says, not someone most people would know existed here in the UK .
I’m surprised this gal is hustling this hard. Did the Nigerian oil money dry up?
Apparently, it’s not as much fun being rich if you are NOT famous and other people don’t know that you’re rich or married to someone with royal connections.
I think part of the hustling has to do with Longleat and attracting more and more tourists.
None of these people can afford their ancestral homes so they’re all hustling for their coin.
Emma knows Serena very well. She posted photos of the two of them gettting ready together for the Met Gala.
Thank You Elizabeth!! She knows both Venus and Serena very well; she was actually on their podcast. This is just trumped up noise from the tabloids.
Why do I get the feeling the Daily Fail sponsored her appearance at the Met Gala 😂😂😂 She just seem like an implant for storylines 😎
There is a special place in hell for women that don’t support other women.
I hate this line because not all women deserve broad support. I don’t support Kate, Camilla, Bezo’s inflatable wife, Melania, Marjorie Taylor Green, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi….the list goes on.
Bezzo’s inflatable wife….chortle 🤭
That clip of that reality show where she was shady didn’t help her either. She got called out on the internet. I’ve been getting the feeling the tabloids are trying to position her as a rival to make money and Emma is absolutely playing into that . I have no issue with Emma but I hope really doesn’t continue to go down this route because it’s not going to work. It’s not going to make her successful or get Meghan to respond. They tried with Meghan’s friends, Kate, Sophie, Camilla, Queen, VB and others. It won’t go anywhere. A literal waste of time.
Let‘s be honest, the reason that the royal rota picked her up ist to give a new angle to all their Meghan articles. This way they‘ll have more to write about on slow days. It‘s a good thing that she said — no comment.
She said no comment with a raised eyebrow. That is a comment in itself. It insinuated Meghan did in fact copy herbut she’s too classy to say so out loud, she is a marchioness after all. I bet Meghan also copied her being biracial…oh daily fail so embarrassing.
A nobody looking to be someone… exactly the sort of person the fail loves to use I’m sure she is doing their bidding but she comes across as desperate like many of the reality show people do, it’s why I never could watch more than an episode any of these shows.
I’m British and I a can confirm that Emma is virtually unknown here. She had a brief stint on Strictly Come Dancing and other less well known reality shows but most people would walk past her in the street. The only people who acknowledge her are derangers. I think she knows this so plays up to it to a certain extent. What lifestyle programme does she have? I certainly haven’t seen it on British tv. I think she made some cooking videos on YouTube which no one would know about if it wasn’t for derangers pretending Meghan was stealing her content.
She may know Serena but that doesn’t make her famous in London or New York. Her jam is sold in the gift shop of her husband’s stately home and nowhere else. She’s a clout chaser who is irrelevant unless brought up in the context of Meghan. We shouldn’t give her any extra attention because that’s what she wants.
I just googled & you’re right, her show is a YouTube channel–which anyone can do. That’s not quite the same as a Netflix series.
“Emma Thynn, 40”
I might buy that she’s 40 in the red dress photo, but the others? There is no way in hell that this woman is a day under 55. Unless it’s like that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry’s dating a woman who is only attractive in just the right lighting.
I too cannot even believe she’s 40! She looks min 50. I asked my Claude ai and it confirmed 40, saying maybe managing a 9,000 acre land has given her an “old soul”. Lol.
I didn’t want to say anything about her appearance but the few times I’ve seen her, I was always convinced that she was at least ten years older than Meghan. On a semi-side note: I was looking up something about Princess Beatrice and I was surprised that before I could finish typing what I was wanting to know, the first suggestion that Google had for her was “Why are her eyes so big?”. I was surprised that any question would be asked or that it would be the first suggestions on Google. I don’t know if this Emma woman naturally has such extreme cheekbones but the combination with her eyes is interesting and makes her look older than her years.
I google image searched & it appears she’s always had great cheekbones, although it looks like the lower part of her face has thinned out as she’s aged.
Those cheeks are very weird. Too many fillers perhaps.
No offense to this woman who I don’t know, but she’s no Meghan. But sure good for her that she also makes jam.
Does she have cheek implants? I’m stuck on that photo😳🤔
I was wondering that too. She looks lovely in the photo in the red dress and then positively MAGA face in the others (and that’s NOT just ageing!)
I think I’ve seen pics of Thynn and Serena before, so they’ve known each other for a while and may go back a bit. She seems to do everything she can to keep herself in the public eye in order to keep herself in the public eye and to promote their estate which I believe has a zoo.
She really does, which I find interesting. It seems like such a non-aristo thing to do, all these reality TV shows & interviews & fashion shoots & etc. I thought these were people who only believed you should appear in the papers three times: at birth, at your wedding, and at your death. 🤷♀️. But she’s a millennial, so things change.
Most aristos in the UK have had to open their houses up to the public and have some sort of “farm shop” (of various sizes and quality) to make money. Emma is no exception.
So forget Meghan, Emma is not even the first amongst her fellow peers.
I find it interesting that in the UK, it seems that it’s mainly the married-in wives who have to publicly hustle to keep their husbands’ aristocratic estates afloat. What are the husbands doing? Why aren’t they hustling as hard as their wives? They marry these men, get the titles and in exchange have to become pack mules?
As to this one, no offence to anyone who likes her aesthetic, but I’ve always found her to be tacky as hell, in every possible way.
Sure… a reality show star that first
met her husband when she was 4 and he was 16, and used surrogacy in the US to have her second child. Is there there the deranged get their ideas from? I don’t have a problem at all re surrogacy but it does say something that this woman is constantly promoted and yet Meghan is accused.
She is a younger half-sister of Iain McQuiston, the husband of Thynn’s aunt, Lady Silvy Cerne Thynne. That’s how they met.
As for the surrogacy she’d been diagnosed with a brain bleed and a pituitary gland disorder during her first pregnancy. She was advised that a second pregnancy could pose serious health risks to her and her child.
She has definitely climbed her way into Serena’s inner circle. Serena has a post on Instagram of the two of them in matching robes dancing around before the Met Gala. And she was seen going to dinner with both sisters and their spouses the night before. I don’t know how they linked up but she’s gotten a toehold in that segment of Meghan’s friendship circle.
If that’s the case she’s probably much nicer when she’s hanging out with them about Meghan, hoping to get some inside scoops. All of this just seems really sad to me though. I can’t imagine focusing my life on ingratiating myself with other people’s friends so that I could come out on top in a comparison with them. When they aren’t thinking about me at all.
Right? Would she answer no comment like that about Meghan if asked in front of Serena. I doubt it. She’d say something nice about how wonderful it that so many people are asking jam. End of.
Justice for Emma! Ladies of London is one of the best shows Bravo has ever aired.
I don’t care how good the show is she is still a nobody in the UK and elsewhere🤷♀️
Agree! I don’t get the Emma hate? She seems quite lovely and I don’t think she actually cares that much about Meghan. Can we please stop pitting these women against each other?
@Ursie If she doesn’t care about Meghan she needs to stop following Meghan hate accounts and stop reposting praise she receives from Meghan haters online. If she didn’t behave in a shady way no one would be commenting!
@Jane, where do you have that information from? First time i hear this.
@Jane, where did you get this information ? Never heard of this before but that doesn’t mean anything, so im curious where did you got that from.
If true and if she doesn’t much care about Meghan, why choose to bring up Meghan’s name on the show? She made a snarky comment, unprompted, so she knew what she was doing. This was in one of the first episodes so I’ve been side eyeing her & her chipmunk cheeks the entire season.
There were screencaps online showing Emma was following accounts that attacked Meghan. She might have since removed the likes.
Agree, she’s great on that show.
This idea that she’s trying to out Meghan Meghan is weird. She’s married into the aristocracy a while ago and it feels to me like she’s either a.) bored and/or b.) hustling to get more people to come to her stately pile’s zoo/amusement park.
Either way, I started following her on Instagram and she was in NYC for the Met Gala, the prince’s dinner and to go on Andy’s show. She got ready with Venus so it looked like they actually are friends.
Well Emma wins by having the tabloids and BRF “support”. Tabloids and the useless royals win by having another black face to say look we are very much not a racist family.
If you follow the BRF news, you think from all the released royal photos/videos that majority of Brits are black or brown. Why do you think that is ? Why so many photos of Chuck, Willy, and Katie with black and brown folks when they gallivant about the kingdom doing their good deeds.
Emma is smart enough to ride the media bash Meghan coattail and be the right kind of black for Britain, and now America. The tabloids, the BRF and the royalist fans along with Trump followers couldn’t be happier. Emma comes out smelling like an English Rose in this.
Yeah I liked Emma! She came off as classy, hard-working, and lovely.
People here jump on the hater train too fast. Especially when Meghan is involved in some way (I like Meghan! But lets be honest, this site is crazy when it comes to her and the BRF)
Emma had a tough entry into a family that was also racist af to her. This site loves to pit people against each other, and gets so frkn dramatic about the Royal family … they’ve made this site so lame compared to what it used to be
Just a question, is Emma ever invited to events sponsored by the working royals? I saw a video where William greeted her husband at some event and actually ignored her. I was surprised at first, and then I wasn’t. William had a smirk on his face after doing it too. But she looked happy as hell to be in his presence.
Victoria Beckham isn’t a thing over here and she won’t be either. From what I can see she is a socialite that will show up to the opening of an envelope. I think the other royals probably see her as a bit of a joke.
She and Edward Enniful are involved with The King’s Trust. She was at the event with KCIII and Cowmilla when they were in New York.
Why is being associated with King’s Trust such a badge of honour or courage?
True badge of honour and courage would mean to stop taking tax dollars in the tunes of billions and wasted so much public resources from the people. Why not disburse money directly to the people without the skimming by middlemen AND requiring the public to kneel down to receive such royal largesse. It’s not like these people will be living poorly or even moderately rich w/out public funding.
Also fess up to the Epstein mess a long time ago would really establish TRUST.
So enough with propping this self aggrandizing, nepotism baby cause it makes Emma and her hanger ons seem desperate and ridiculous to want to be papped while simultaneously be above it all.
She’s also a Tusk Trust ambassador–likely through her association with Longleat’s safari farm (started by her husband’s grandfather).
Her father was a Nigerian billionaire and she grew up in posh circles, going to the same schools. When she married the now Marquess, his relatives were so racist that they refused to attend the wedding and they’re estranged to this day. She got some press a while back for being the first black member of the aristocracy, back when she was still Vicountess. But her reality TV fame-seeking indicates to me that no matter what her money or her title, she is NOT accepted amongst the aristo class. It’s not about money, or even titles. At the end of the day, acceptance is ablout bloodline and race, even before class and money.
I don’t think she’s necessarily a Meghan adversary. I think the tabloids would love to use her as an adversary so they can pull the “even black women hate Meghan” card. She might be a coward like Edward Enninful, who’s so used to sucking up to rich white people that he fears being on the wrong side of them. I don’t think he’s a Meghan hater either. I think he’s afraid to be a Meghan supporter because he’s afraid of the vitriol that will come his way. I think both Emma and Edward are trying to “both sides” by appeasing the white power structure, but look how quickly one or both will be thrown under the bus if they don’t toe the line. Emma is already a “reality TV fameseeker,” so not a “real” aristo.
It’s tough trying to be a celebrity while black in the UK when not in theater or acting. She’s a one of a kind socialite with rich Nigerian daddy (who has mx wives and many children).
For Emma and Edward, this side of the Pond is far more lucrative for advancement. Emma can leverage her title— which true to American stereotype- makes Yanks go gaga over. That includes bigger celebrities like Serena. Nothing like rubbing shoulders with aristo and royals to get future garden party invite, royal wedding, and eventually a knighthood or a damn title. That sh*‘t is something wealthy people with status still craved. (Proof: Trump, the Gates, etc.)
So yeah guess having Emma around might rub some of the aristo pixie dust on those who crave more blue blood status/besties. Personally, it’s kinda sad to see all these people- whose ancestors were exploited by the British Empire— now seeking acknowledgement from these entitled nobles and royals. Like don’t you have any pride or self worth? Why would you want to snuggle with this pervy lot?
Marti I would agree with you on most of what you said but I would strongly disagree when it comes to what you said about Serena and royalty or aristocracy. She has been famous most of her life and has had to endure racism and oppression from people who see royalty and aristocracy as being better than her and that is something she would never be okay with due to her own personal experiences. It seems that if that were how she saw things, she would have been royal adjacent long before Meghan met Harry.
Agree, @lanne. And per her wiki page, Emma is the result of an affair between her parents. SO aristocratic!
Well, if she suffered racism from her in-laws she should be much nicer to Meghan, who went through the same thing but in a different way. Meghan’s in-laws did go to their wedding albeit some rolling eyes and disrespect, but they leaked and cajoled the toxic British media to abuse her daily, and continue doing so. Emma should have more empathy and actually support Meghan as they both suffered racism in the hands of the aristocracy.
Meghan is a princess of the UK and a royal duchess by marriage. To Brit CBers: Meghan outranks this clout chasing marchio-mess, right? Would Emma have to curtsy to Meghan in the required setting?
I’m not British, but I think the answer is yes, Emma would have to curtsey to Meghan. I don’t think either woman would care one way or the other.
Pretty sure Meghan woukd be appalled at anyone curtsying to her. Meghan is a modern American woman.
Dont let The Daily Fail pit us against the two women. As much as I know, she never said anything about Meghan. I watched the new show „lady’s of London „ and i liked it so far. She and her husband own this enormous estate, Longlead (one of the largest, if not the largest, estates in England), which also has its own zoo and attracts many tourists. With high inflation now, they’ll need more advertising, or so it seems to me. All these aristocrats are having financial problems because of the high costs of these enormous estates. Artists are cancelling concerts because people don’t want to (or struggling because everything is getting more expensive) money like they used to. That’s why i think shes hustling like everyone.
You may have missed it but she did, go re watch either the first or second episode. She mentions Meghan in one of her confessionals. Apropos of nothing, she chose to bring up Meghan herself and not in a favorable way.
I did watch that and Meghan came up as an aside in one remark, but she wasn’t a main focus of anything in the show.
What did she say specifically?
They even own Cheddar! The town, the valley, the caves, the cheese! Go figure!
I’m sure Emma is perfectly nice, with eager bunny vibes. They have mutual acquaintances and friends but these two women don’t necessarily know each other and seem to have very different goals. There is no competition because what exactly is the prize here? There is this constant need to have Meghan in some fake conflict with someone. I have to say that I think Edward Enninful has shown himself to be a real bitch but that’s neither here nor there.
To be fair Emma has known Edward and Serena for a long time. These are not new friendships and she is a regular at society events here in the UK and is a fixture in the press and celebrity and lifestyle magazines. She is well known in London society but she is thirsty and is desperate to be lifestyle influencer/brand and a household name in the UK and beyond. He father is a Nigerian billionaire and I believe she gets her entrepreneurial sprit ftom him.
Yeah I’ve seen her shady instagram likes and following haters. She tried to unfollow some after people told her about herself but it’s there. She is full of it and I’m almost positive Enninful is the ‘source’ behind the British vogue stories bc he was pissed Meghan pulled out of it.
I don’t hate Serena but I have questioned her judgment on a LOT of things lately
Doesn’t Serena know how it looks? Is she no longer close to Meghan? I think Meghan is more of a homebody and doesn’t frequent these celebrity circles. That Kris Jenner birthday was an exception, and she feels grateful for Kris for supporting them when they arrived from Canada. We never forget those who were good to us in difficult times.
not Edward. don’t like him anymore. haha
Agreed she isn’t an opp but the media wants her to be because it’s an easy narrative. Good to not feed into it
Emma is also good friends with Dolce & Gabbana and Lady Kitty Spencer.
Don’t forget Emma is canoodling with Chanel, Vera Wang, Schiaparelli, Amal and George Clooney, the entire Grovesnor Family, every European monarchy, all the Rothschilds, Lauren and Jeffie Bezos. Her bestie list goes on infinitum.
Kitty’s godmother to her younger son.
Kitty and her sister do not talk to their father, Charles Spencer, Charles is supportive of Harry.
This is weird. Pitting two black women against each other for no other reason than they happen to be black and associated with Aristos is odd. What is this???
Meghan AND Emma fan here. I loved ladies of London season four. Emma came across to me as kind, likable, hard-working, fascinating and cool. How about we support both of them?
Yeah, but what about Emma’s “no comment” and raised eyebrow to the question of whether or not she thought Meghan was copying her? If true, that seems designed to not only further the negative (to Meghan) comparison between the two but as well make it clear that Emma thinks Meghan is copying her. A pretty b*tchy thing to do.
Apparently she follows a lot of deranger accounts so not sure she’s actually as nice as seems on TV.
If she follows and likes Meghan hate accounts, how about ‘we’ don’t. You’re welcome to, of course. I think she gets to be called out.
The jam wars! My God. Does she also have children older than Meghan’s whose names are Archie and Lilibet? There is no low low enough for this nonsense.
I’ve only watched one episode of LoL and only because I follow Myka Meier’s etiquette account. In the first episode, a woman named Lottie Kane commented, comparing Meghan and Emma. And most likely, she was prompted by producers if I had to guess. It does seem that everything Emma does is to promote the Longleat estate. I will hold my judgment on her until I see/hear otherwise. The media loves to pit any woman, especially black women, against Meghan. Emma probably knows that, and the raised eyebrow was directed at the person asking the stupid question.
Yeah, I don’t buy the pitting blacks against blacks narrative here. No doubt the tabloids will exploit anyone willing to be exploited to take down Meghan and Harry. Emma can easily refute that and avoid that, but she doesn’t. She plays it safe and looks out for her best interest— as she should— but it doesn’t mean she wouldn’t blow with the wind and throw others under her bus to #1 celebrityville. That’s the dirty truth.
Is Emma promoting Longleat by spending oodles of money attending Met Gala and getting papped with better known celebrities or is she promoting Emma first? From the get go, Emma wasn’t the coy wanna be lady of the manor, raise my sheep type. She loves the title but loves the fame even more. That’s way more honest and nothing wrong with admitting that. Hubbie and the kids she tried so hard to have are happy at Longleat in the care of their caretakers. Emma meanwhile is working her fingers to the bone rubbing shoulders with stars and walking the red carpet.
Royalists, in their efforts to bash Meghan, have used Emma Thynn as an example of how a good black woman should be and it would seen that she willing to be tokenised by these royalists and British the press.
That’s pathetic of her.
This seems like the accurate take in Emma related stuff I’ve seen over the last 5 years.
I will say that the term “best friend” is carrying a lot of weight in this article. They’ve been doing this a lot for relationships that were casual or unconfirmed relationships or interactions, because they want to paint a narrative that Meghan “ends relationships after getting what she wants” or that she is being “snubbed”. Her relationship with him was strictly a friendly and professional manner where they created something and it was never meant to go beyond that. These people seem to have this weird fixation with creating their own fairytale of who Meghan is and what her life is like and it has always been far from reality. Being friendly with someone never makes you friends. It should be basic decency and I think these people lack basic decency.
Agree.
As to your response to my comment about Serena— that’s fair. I don’t think Serena is shallow and all these women under discussion have faced racism. But celebritydom is weird and some followers of such ecosystem place way too much faith in the “reporting” about celebrities’ lives and their relationships.
The sad truth is experiencing racism (and many other traumas) doesn’t mean people (best example: Clarence Thomas) don’t tolerate it, promote it, deny it, or even practice it. It’s human nature. Sometimes it’s done in self-defense, survival mode, or from living in a bubble too long, or having a thick skin.
Re: Met gala, I think Serena was having fun and having this Emma chick around was all good for instagram etc. It’s a big social event with plenty of air kissing and preening. Emma got her face and name known— look at this thread for example. lol.
It’s so funny to me that they try to pretend Emma’s mere existence as a marchioness somehow indicates the British aristos & British royals are not racist & could not possibly be racist because look, here’s a Black marchioness! And yet both his parents did not show up to the wedding because they were aghast that he was marrying a biracial woman.
Emma has talked in the past about not only her in-laws but also other aristocrats being very snobby and racist towards her when she married her husband.
Yikes, that’s a hard 40. Hate ages I guess.