Buckingham Palace strikes back at Meghan Markle’s sweet surprise!
In recent days Harry and Meghan have embarked on yet another relaunch, this time closely married to their upcoming Netflix projects.
Launch of American Riviera Orchard.
Last month DailyMail.com revealed the staggering scope of products that Meghan intends to sell as founder of American Riviera Orchard – named because the coastal enclave of Montecito is known to its wealthy inhabitants as America’s riviera.
The brand is based in Montecito, California, where Meghan resides with Prince Harry and their children, Archie and Lilibet
The brand’s name, coupled with “Montecito,” suggests a luxe vibe, fitting for the Sussex’s Santa Barbara abode.
A trademark application reveals plans for cookbooks, kitchenware, and tasty jams.
American Riviera Orchard could be Meghan’s ticket to a new chapter, blending her love for food, lifestyle, and creativity.
Apparently in a bid to out-brand both Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow, Meghan will sell everything from gardening trowels, to tea towels, scented candles, make-up, skin care products and pet shampoo.
Duchess sazzles friends with hand-tied pots!
After the Duchess of Sussex teased her lifestyle brand by sending numbered pots of her strawberry jam to fifty of her closest influencers, Buckingham Palace’s official store has come up with an ad for its own, thoroughly royal, strawberry preserves.
Last week Meghan, 42, depended on her high-profile friends to share images of the hand-tied pots of American Riviera Orchard jam nestled in bowl of oranges.
Just days after she meticulously numbered one-through-fifty pots of homemade strawberry jam and sent them to dozens of her closest influencers, filming for 42-year-old Meghan’s latest venture has begun in earnest.
Buckingham’s sweet countermove to Meghan’s jam revelation!
Today, in a video shared with their 557,000 Instagram followers, Buckingham Palace Shop’s official account posted its own take on the sweet preserve.
Set perhaps pointedly to music from Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet the reel suggests four very British ways to enjoy the product.
It boasts, is made using only the finest of British berries.
Stamped on the side of each $4 jar, which retails at 3.95 pound sterling and ships internationally, is the Royal Coat of Arms which bears the motto of the Order of the Garter – ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense,’ which means, ‘Shame on him who thinks evil of it.’
But brand experts have pointed to a similarity between American Riviera Orchard’s aesthetic and that of the ultra-exclusive celebrity food brand, Flamingo Estates which sells pots of LeBron James or Julianne Moore honey for an eye-watering $250 a pop.
In its post that might as well carry the hashtag #jamwars the palace helpfully stirs the pot suggesting that customers enjoying their jam ‘On a scone as part of a cream tea. On a crumpet. With a croissant. On toast.’
Fans rally behind Buckingham Palace in jam showdown!
The oh-so-subtle sting in the tail of this sweet post appears to have not been lost on its many viewers.
One of the top comments so far reads, ‘Buckingham Palace over Montecito any day.’
Last week DailyMail.com revealed that filming had become of Markel’s latest Netflix project – a cooking home in which she promises to invite viewers into the kitchen.
Just don’t expect the kitchen to be hers.
Meghan Markle’s kitchen secrets unveiled.
Instead, as seen in these exclusive DailyMail.com pictures, the Duchess of domesticity has set up her stall in a sprawling property two miles from the Montecito mansion she and Prince Harry, 39, share with children Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2, and their revolving cast of staff.
DailyMail.com can reveal Meghan is not using her own Montecito mansion, but instead using the kitchen of philanthropists Tom and Sherrie Cipolla.
While Meghan’s American Riviera Orchard products will carry a logo that many have noted for its striking similarity to a royal crest, Buckingham Palace’s version comes with the real deal.
Meghan Markle’s cooking show production kicks into high gear!
Tom and Sherrie Cipolla have lent their home to Meghan for her cooking show.
The couple are fixtures on the bougie Montecito society scene and generous donors to several good causes locally including the Storyteller Center – a therapeutic preschool for children facing adversities.
Security vehicles guarded both of the 4,500 square feet home’s entrances.
When approached by DailyMail.com Sherrie Cipolla declined to comment on the purpose of the film crew currently camped out in her home.
Here, from the comfort of somebody else’s home, she will share ‘the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship,’ – as well as chasing ratings.
If you can dream it chances are Meghan will sell it.
As she navigates this new chapter, Meghan continues to engage with her audience while being mindful of the challenges and negativity that social media can bring.
We can wait to see what’s next with the Duchess’s captivating saga.
It’s clear she’s ready to make her mark again, despite the haters lurking in the digital shadows.