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Speaker 2: Meghan Sussex has revealed the first look at the packaging
Speaker 2: for her as ever Raspberry Jam, and the result has
Speaker 2: left the public somewhat stunned. The duchess showcased a gleaming
Speaker 2: white case nearly double the size of the actual jar,
Speaker 2: complete with gold detailing, a dainty white label and a
Speaker 2: metal lid, all of which, to the casual observer, appear
Speaker 2: more befitting a luxury candle or perfume than their fruit
Speaker 2: preserve Palace. Sources tell us yes, Queen Elizabeth is indeed
Speaker 2: still dead and unable to comment. Social media reactions have
Speaker 2: been as tight as the jam itself. When unimpressed on
Speaker 2: looker exclaimed Megan, it's just jam. It doesn't require an
Speaker 2: entire presentation. This packaging is as pretentious as others echoed
Speaker 2: the sentiment, noting that the elaborate box looks like a perfume,
Speaker 2: with another adding seems like a lot of extra packaging
Speaker 2: for a company that wants to be environmentally aware. Despite
Speaker 2: the fast Meghan's Jam continues to be a hit among
Speaker 2: her Celebrity Circle, a longtime friend Abigail Spencer, hairstylist Ben Skurvin,
Speaker 2: and Pilate's studio owner Heather Doriic of all posted glowing
Speaker 2: praise of the raspberry spread, which they've sampled on crumpets,
Speaker 2: toast and presumably social clout. Skurvin's post reads the way
Speaker 2: any normal human would write, a very frothy Gai lady Lol,
Speaker 2: delicious afternoon, treat crumpets with butter and at as ever
Speaker 2: official raspberry spread. It's really addictive. Thanks at. Megan Spencer
Speaker 2: went with the sinatra pun start spreading the news. The
Speaker 2: Duchess gave her behind the scenes look at her Jam's
Speaker 2: production line via Instagram this week, where factory workers in
Speaker 2: plastic gloves were seen filling jars, a shift from her
Speaker 2: earlier batch of fifty, which Megan said she prepared herself
Speaker 2: at home. Meghan reminds us via Instagram, Jam is my Jam,
Speaker 2: but there are so many more products that I just
Speaker 2: love and now it's time to share them with you.
Speaker 2: So I just can't wait for you to see it.
Speaker 2: We just checked again and yes, Queen Elizabeth, it is
Speaker 2: still dead. It remains to be seen if the Jam
Speaker 2: over shadows Meghan's mildly anticipated podcast due out next week.
Speaker 2: To Snarky The Privacy Mind to Dunchess is being criticized
Speaker 2: for her using her children to help promote her business.
Speaker 2: Royal expert Tom Bauer tells The Mail the main charge
Speaker 2: against the Megan is hypocrisy and crude profiteering from her title.
Speaker 2: Every venture she tries, TV, politics, philanthropy, books, food and
Speaker 2: clothes is ridiculed. Obsessed by being a mum constantly speaking
Speaker 2: about cooking breakfast for my kids, Meghan is scraping the
Speaker 2: barrel for sympathy and support from American mothers. It's hard
Speaker 2: to believe that holding her children to promote her clothes
Speaker 2: once stop her credibility sliding deeper into the mud. Royal
Speaker 2: expert Richard Fitzwilliams added, Sussex's though anything which involves Archie
Speaker 2: and Lilabit is news. They are obsessive about privacy except
Speaker 2: when it suits them. She is ruthless. Royal author Phil
Speaker 2: Dampier said, nothing happens by accident, and she would have
Speaker 2: thought this through. And Noah's putting a photo of her
Speaker 2: children out at the same time as her clothing line
Speaker 2: would get maximum publicity. It begs the question whether Megan
Speaker 2: is exploiting her two children, who remain in the line
Speaker 2: of succession. I'd expect the Palace to take a dim
Speaker 2: view of this. The Wall Street Journal wrote about the
Speaker 2: Megan Effect. They explain New York fashion brand La Ligne
Speaker 2: saw a pair of its jeans sell out within a
Speaker 2: few days of Mirkael wearing them on the cooking Show.
Speaker 2: The brand had sent the genes to Mirkle, Howard said,
Speaker 2: and after the episode dropped, the company sold over five
Speaker 2: hundred pairs of the pants in about two weeks. A
Speaker 2: pair of forty dollars clogs Michael wore during an episode
Speaker 2: where she feeds her chickens sold out online in most
Speaker 2: women's sizes, and searches for the shoes on the Croc's
Speaker 2: website increased by seventy percent compared to last month, a
Speaker 2: company spokesperson said, demonstrating a dramatic rise and crocs being
Speaker 2: worn by chicken feeders. Business coach of Maddie Alexander Grout
Speaker 2: told Mail Online, if you take on average how many
Speaker 2: followers Megan has two point six million, and how much
Speaker 2: engagement she has, I would imagine based on her following that,
Speaker 2: she will have thousands and thousands of people buying these things,
Speaker 2: and she will be making a fair amount of that.
Speaker 2: She is going to make a fair amount based on
Speaker 2: what the clothes are worth. If she gets say fifteen
Speaker 2: percent of a shirt that's one hundred and twenty eight pounds,
Speaker 2: she'll be making nineteen pounds twenty. She will be selling
Speaker 2: thousands of those and could be making at least nineteen
Speaker 2: thousand pounds from one linen shirt. More Palace in just
Speaker 2: a moment, Royal inside a deep crown tells palace intrigue.
Speaker 2: Queen Elizabeth would have been privately horrified by this explicit
Speaker 2: commercialization of royal connections. Her entire rain was built on
Speaker 2: the principle that the monarchy must remain above commerce. She
Speaker 2: understood that royal influence should be wielded for charitable purposes,
Speaker 2: not personal profit. The late Queen maintained a strict separation
Speaker 2: between royal duties and money making ventures. Remember how she
Speaker 2: handled the Royal Yacht Britanna controversy. She refused to use
Speaker 2: taxpayer money for a new yacht, despite her fondness for it.
Speaker 2: The idea of directly monetizing her status through affiliate links
Speaker 2: would have been inconceivable to her. Prince William is likely
Speaker 2: viewing this development through the lens of institutional preservation. Unlike
Speaker 2: his father, who seems content to let Meghan and Harry
Speaker 2: chart their own course at arm's length, William recognizes the
Speaker 2: potential long term damage to the monarchy's brand. The King's
Speaker 2: seeming indifference reflects his prioritization of family harmony over institutional purity.
Speaker 2: Having whether decades of public and private turbulence, Charles appears
Speaker 2: to have adopted a live and let live approach to
Speaker 2: the Sussex situation. In the Mayle Eleanor Dyer wonders, Meghan
Speaker 2: Mikel insists she isn't an influencer, so why is she
Speaker 2: using Instagram to flog clothes? DIY cites pr and branding
Speaker 2: expert Haley Knight, who explains the Duchess of Sussex has
Speaker 2: long positioned herself as an advocate, humanitarian and media entrepreneur,
Speaker 2: distancing herself from traditional influencer culture. Yet with this latest move,
Speaker 2: she is embracing a model that is predominantly about monetizing
Speaker 2: and sales. Meghan's new shop directly contradicts her claim that
Speaker 2: she's not an influencer because affiliate marketing is one of
Speaker 2: the most common revenue streams for influencers. Megan is also
Speaker 2: showcasing standard influencer behavior by curating selections of products in
Speaker 2: order to drive sales, so it is not surprising that
Speaker 2: she has received backlash for there being a disconnect between
Speaker 2: her comments and her actions. In March, Megan told people,
Speaker 2: I see myself as an entrepreneur and a female founder,
Speaker 2: and the brand ends up influential, and that's great, Haley said.
Speaker 2: The online shop allows Megan to monetize her brand, but
Speaker 2: it seems to cheapen her overall brand, reducing her status.
Speaker 2: She has put so much emphasis on activism and philanthropy
Speaker 2: that diminishes her to a simple lifestyle influencer. This means
Speaker 2: that her challenge will be maintaining credibility and engagement. If
Speaker 2: she continues to combine being a serious thought leader with
Speaker 2: influencer marketing, her messaging will become unaligned and contradictory, and
Speaker 2: she'll struggle to find her audience. Megan's recent moves re
Speaker 2: launching a new Instagram account, teasing a lifestyle brand, and
Speaker 2: maintaining a media presence through her podcast all represent influencer culture,
Speaker 2: so we can definitely argue that she is moving toward
Speaker 2: establishing herself as such. It seems that this recent move
Speaker 2: is all about driving sales and making money rather than
Speaker 2: an impact, making it her most overtly commercial influencer move yet,
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