‘I’m a royal expert and Brits are exhausted by Meghan Markle’s grift’ | Royal | News
Meghan Markle has been slammed by a royal commentator who claimed she was “tired” over her fruitless efforts to win back public support. The Duchess of Sussex launched a number of business ventures last year, including lifestyle brand As Ever, a new podcast series, Confession of a Female Founder, and cooking show With Love, Meghan on Netflix.
While many of Meghan’s projects have been widely panned by critics, her series’ ratings on Netflix have plummeted as it failed to capture people’s attention. This year the Duchess is said to want to focus solely on her brand, as she has already released a leather bookmark ahead of her cookbook, which is reportedly set to hit shelves in the spring.
Now a royal commentator has slammed Meghan and said the public are fed up with her strategy, which has been described as a “cycle of doom” following her royal career.
US-based columnist/royal and foreign policy commentator Lee Cohen told the Daily Express: “In my opinion, Meghan Markle’s post-royal career is no longer a journey, but a cycle.
“It seems like a doomsday cycle: Launch. Excitement. Disappointment. Rebranding. Repeat. By 2026, this pattern is not only familiar, it’s tiring.”
He claimed Meghan could no longer use her royal connections to gain attention and that her initiatives had to be based on her own merits, which were “painfully few”.
The commentator said: “Markle soldiers on with As Ever, the rebranded body of the forever-delayed American Riviera Garden.
“This is the ultimate influencer scam: overpriced wines, household goods, candles and platitudes marketed as ‘aspirational’.”
Mr Cohen added: “So 2026 in a nutshell? More launches. More breathtaking announcements. More misleading insistence that big success is one step away.”
“But there is no breakthrough. There is no relevance. Just diminishing returns and exhaustion and alienation of the public.”
According to insiders, there has been a glitch on the As Ever website that has recently revealed the brand’s plans to expand globally.
This glitch meant that when more items were added to the cart, the remaining items became available for sale.
While some people mocked the Duchess for the large number of shares remaining, a source claimed the figures reveal the business’s next big move.
A source close to As Ever with insider knowledge of the business told the Daily Express that the latest disruption proves how successful As Ever is as a brand, with the Duchess managing to sell almost 90% of her original shares.
