Meghan Markle has continued to push her new jam by sending the first item from her new brand ‘American Riviera Orchard’ to 50 influencers and friends including a former Suits actor and Prince Harry’s best friend.
However, critics of Meghan Markle have brutally compared the Duchess’s jam to the fresh items produced by King Charles on his Highgrove Estate.
Royal spectator, Ruby Jael Clowers wrote on Facebook: “While profits from Meghan’s business endeavours go to herself, any excess money made as part of the Highgrove brand is donated to charity.”
On the Highgrove website, it states: “The sale of Highgrove products, garden tours, and events support and enable the life and work of the King’s foundation.”
The King’s Foundation runs a diverse programme of education and training for all ages and backgrounds, and it “regenerates and cares for places where communities thrive” and that visitors enjoy, as stated on the charity homepage.
From preserves and confectionery to wine and spirits, Highgrove products are “luxury goods” made from the “finest ingredients” that are mostly organic.
A currently ‘sold out’ jam on the website, is the ‘Strawberry and Marc de Champagne’ organic jam at the price of £6.95. Other jams are also sold out including the ‘Organic Raspberry and Blackberry Preserve’ and the ‘English Damson’ preserve which is made from plums and described to be perfect with “warm home-baked scones”.
The website states Damson Jam is produced by hand in Somerset in small batches, using traditional copper pans to preserve the sweet flavour and juicy texture of the fruits.
Meanwhile, the Duchess of Sussex went viral last Monday after she unveiled her strawberry jam which will be the first product to be sold under ‘American Riviera Orchard’. Initially, among the lucky few who received Meghan’s new, hand-numbered, product and shared pictures of it on social media were fashion designer Tracy Robbins and Argentine socialite Delfina Balquier.
The trademark for Meghan’s brand filed in February, mentions decanters, kitchen linens, pet accessories, table card holders, nut butters, spreads, preserves, and jellies.
Hoping to continue with their brand’s successes, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are launching two new shows with Netflix following the previous release of three documentaries by the couple under their £100million deal.
One series will explore “the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship”, while the other will give “unprecedented access to the world of professional polo”.
However, a royal commentator has lashed out at Meghan for her pursuits while King Charles and Princess Kate battle with health concerns.
Royal commentator and Meghan’s former friend Lizzie Cundy has accused the Duchess of Sussex of “trying to relaunch herself as a Gwyneth Paltrow type”, and claimed she is “not reading the room”.
