Meghan rolling in the dough (Image: Netflix)
Some aspects of life seem relentless – like the sands of time, seasons, tides and taxes. Now add ‘the Meghan Markle Money Machine’ to the list. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have put Gerald Ratner to shame after seemingly making a fortune out of selling royal-related tat and tit-bits, and tittle-tattle.
In Prince Harry’s case, with his autobiography ‘Spare’, he earned a minimum of £22m by selling royal gossip and private family conversations, which ultimately harmed his family back in Windsor. For Meghan, it’s her ‘As Ever’ range of jam, honey, teas, candles and wine – her Spotify deal, and her £100m Netflix deal for the ‘With Love, Meghan’ TV homestyle series revealing how to bake focaccia and make pretzel gift bags.
Now Meghan’s latest cash cow has been unveiled, and it’s a book. That phrase would normally leave Buckingham Palace officials in sweats, panicking about what new mud she could be slinging on their golden-gilded wrought iron gates.
But in this case, revenge is a dish best served as cold as gazpacho, as she’s writing a cookbook.
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Last week, we heard she leveraged her royal connections and newfound fame to sell nearly one million jars of jam and wants to launch her lifestyle business globally.
The jam alone is thought to have raked in £26.7m in sales. A source said: “I think it’s fair to say business isn’t just successful, it’s flying off the shelf.”
Now it’s a cookbook. The culinary tome’s tipped to include recipes for her ‘single skillet spaghetti’ and ‘rainbow-themed fruit salad’, as well as her beloved jams and marmalade.
‘Tips and tricks’ about hosting at home, which formed a major part of her Netflix TV series, are also expected.
The book, reportedly pencilled in for the spring, is likely to coincide with an expansion of her As Ever brand into a wider range of non-food products, such as candles.
Meghan and Harry are building a business empire (Image: PA)
When she moved to the UK, she wrote the foreword for Together: Our Community Cookbook in the wake of the Grenfell fire disaster in London in 2018.
She has also written a children’s book, The Bench. We all needed a good sit-down after reading that.
It is almost as if Harry and Meghan have been given a deadline to make a billion dollars and nothing will stop their march for moolah, battle for the big bucks and desire for dough.
I mean, how much loot do they need? Are they saving up to buy an island with a hollowed-out volcano, a mini-rail and a space rocket to take over the world?
It’s clear she is still bitter over how her royal fairytale has panned out, her feelings of being forced into Megxit.
Her TV interviews show a woman angry at perceived slights or insults suffered at the hands of more senior royals, and frustrated and exhausted by royal restrictions on what a ‘working royal’ meant.
Yet she has not given an inch either. She appeared to revel in setting a match to the reputation of King Charles, Camilla, William and Catherine.
Now she is building a business empire, perhaps in time to rival the Royal Family’s own wealth.
Her cookbook could boast recipes for ‘sour grapes’ and ‘chips on the shoulder’ – but one dish missing will be ‘humble pie’.
