{"id":520346,"date":"2026-03-05T13:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:07:15","slug":"meghan-markle-shares-feelings-as-celebration-begins-in-montecito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520346\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle shares feelings as celebration begins in Montecito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/654163_2058940_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle shares feelings as celebration begins in Montecito\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle shares feelings as celebration begins in Montecito<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle told the world that she and her team are &#8216;focused&#8217; no matter the slow progress on a special milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex marked the first anniversary of her passion project, As Ever, which she launched on March 4 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consisting of homemade products, Meghan made progress as a businesswoman despite the constant backlash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, an insider from Meghan&#8217;s camp shared that the brand is still young, but it is clearly going in a great direction.<\/p>\n<p>Express reported, &#8220;It&#8217;s still early days for As Ever, but the trajectory so far gives us confidence in the long-term potential if we continue to build it in the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The source added, &#8220;We remain focused on growing the brand carefully and sustainably, while listening closely to the community that has shown such enthusiasm for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in a conversation with\u00a0Bloomberg&#8217;s Emily Chang, the Duchess of Sussex expressed her happiness after the earlier batches of &#8220;As Ever&#8221; sold out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;When you sell out that quickly, it&#8217;s a double-edged sword because it&#8217;s an incredible thing to happen for any small business and any start-up, and at the same time, you don&#8217;t get the same metrics and learnings, because it&#8217;s all gone immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle shares feelings as celebration begins in Montecito Meghan Markle told the world that she and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-520346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}