As Never the second release ...

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Wine, apricot spread and honey. I think we've had all the suggestions for names already ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14832085/amp/Meghan-Markle-new-products-rose-wine-apricot-spread.html

I’ve heard that too. As she came to realise she’d been played, she wanted rid of that very embarrassing interview.

I think the words of the poem "a happy dad and his loving wife" are interesting.

Yes, wife is to rhyme with life, but it stood out to me that is dad and wife not dad and mum. And the relationship is not with her, but her dad.

Well, Catherine had everything Meghan didn’t. Including the husband on a higher social par than her own.

It was a disgraceful interview, performative and malicious. OW’s reputation was damaged by it, possibly irreparably, so no wonder she wants it gone.

But the internet is forever so all the scrubbing in the world can’t obliterate it entirely. Like the Royal Family documentary, it’s there somewhere, ready to emerge.

Delia would have been a nice mix between Doria, Diana and Lilly. Delia Sussex has a nice ring to it.

Regarding the poem, Megs was always the victim. Just wait until she has teenagers herself, karma!

I loved the picture from that day when Kate produced tupperware boxes of snacks she'd brought along and George and Charlotte sat among a load of bags and stuff in the car boot to eat.

The morning after HLMTQ died and the whole world was paying respects their respects OW scheduled and extraordinary interview with Gayle King to back track from the 'bombshell' interview when she realised she was on the wrong side of history despite having monestised and dined out on it for the previous 18 months.

Yes it is a sweet photo.
Latest rumour from Twitter about the wine launch:
In order to sell liquor online, Meghan Markle needs to have an ABC license from the state of California; she doesn't. Tick Tock, Meghan. #MeghanMarkle No pending licenses, either.

That's interesting @ThePoshUns . Latest ineptitude of (how many is it now)?

Instead of all their Chiefs of Staff and CEOs and whatever, they just need one person who has the vaguest clue about running a business. It isn't exactly Amazon as it is, it's microscopically small in internet terms.

Said it before and will boringly say it again, there are sellers on Etsy with 100 times the business nous, customer service skills (and more products)

Just a thought from Emma grede podcast Megs was on.

She talks about how family and As ever are her sole focus now. She doesn’t mention much at all about WLM, save for taking about the edits and how she was too busy with that for anymore podcasts.

She also talks about how she works with the different building of Netflix now- consumer products.

So between both of these statements, I don’t think there will be a WLM series 3.

otherwise:

• it would have been announced
• they would be in pre production if not already filming
• theres nothing in the press about filming permits etc
• she would still be working in the ‘productions’ building of NF
• she would be mentioning it heavily on the podcasts she does

Im thinking WLM was purely just to launch As ever. We knew they were just infomercials but I thought they would follow all of Meghans ‘drops’ but… I think it was just designed to associate Meg with cooking and hospitality. Because people were all thinking…..she’s not a chef etc, why is she launching this brand? They’ve now put in the groundwork to establish that this is what Meg ‘does’, so there’s no need to continue. They aren’t great shows, every review was a shocker.

So the podcast is over and I think WLM is over after series 2 is aired. She’s making it look like her sole focus is on As ever but she doesn’t yet realise she’s just playing rich wife make believe. You see her in the recent pics, thinking she’s the food art director, helping with lighting etc. It makes her think she’s doing something important- but it’s the stuff NF etc are letting her do to make her think she’s special while everybody else does the hard work.
The latest photos on the As ever site were very amateurish- not sure if that’s a cut in budget or what. In the photo posted, there’s no way a professional food art director was used. You can hardly see the box and the spread, they are smothered in flowers, the placement doesn’t draw the eye- you have to actively look for them, scale is off. Looks terrible.

Can start to smell another failure.

In order to sell liquor online, Meghan Markle needs to have an ABC license from the state of California; she doesn't

How can she get everything so wrong? A rhetorical question, but who on earth is advising her ?
I don't know how these things work but maybe she's covered by the company that are actually supplying the wine ?

I would assume the license would be held by snows, as the distributor.

@AtIusvue the actual products are not in sharp focus- it’s the handle and rim of the basket that are in focus. I do hate a badly taken photo!!

A quick google shows this www.abc.ca.gov/third-party-providers/

Yes! So can’t be a professional photographer either!

Which would suggest that she is responsible for the licence for the 3rd party provider?
we shall see

But but her freakish eye for detail?!

I read it as she can promote and 'sell' the wine but all proceeds have to go directly to the supplier who can then return any profits or commission back to her.
ETA : so As Ever is just the agent

Is this essentially a drop shipping outfit?

Yes it is

Yes, in the same way that they would presumably have had their premises inspected for food hygiene and the like. Meghan doesn't need to go to all that trouble herself because, as has been said, 'As Ever' is basically a dropshipping outlet. Generic white labelled goods sold at a high markup to her cult fans.

@Lundewhy so much excitement over a photo. Remember they’re just a normal family like the rest of us. Eating in Tupperware boxes is probably the norm for them.

Bit off topic. Some years ago I was on holiday (nice N Yorks seaside town) and wandered a bit off the main drag. Tiny shop selling jewellery and accessories, very young woman running it. Took to a quirky little necklace. She said proudly "My schoolfriend makes them, they've been in Vogue!"

2 doors up, small deli, equally young lady proprietor (v early 20s at most). She apologised for the lack of stock but she'd only just opened and had more coming in tomorrow as she'd been to a trade fair in Birmingham and ordered "lots" (it was early in the season and what she had was lovely)

I departed with my necklace plus some as gifts, goodies and a sense of pride in these enterprising young "female founders" who were throwing heart and soul into their little businesses.

Apologies for the derail but the contrast with As Ever and the podcast, from someone with all the resources in the world, really struck me recently.

Carol’s choices for names are very royal adjacent -

Catherine Elizabeth (two Queens names)
Phillippa Charlotte (Phillip / Charles)
James William (two Kings names)

I think the thing (amongst many other things) that has irked people is that she is using mass produced spreads , when she constantly banged on in WLM about how she made them herself. She said in one podcast how all her friends said her jam made them so happy and that's where the idea of selling them came from.