{"id":462265,"date":"2026-06-05T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462265\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:56:08","slug":"meghans-latest-move-is-a-disgrace-kate-and-william-will-never-forget-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462265\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan’s latest move is a disgrace, Kate and William will never forget | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you thought Meghan Markle<\/a> was extending olive branches to the Royal Family<\/a>, they become nail-spiked bats to bludgeon them senseless instead. With the Duke and Duchess of Sussex reportedly hoping to soon visit the UK for the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games 2027, it was felt Meghan was trying to melt the ice between them and the rest of the Royals.<\/p>\n

For years the Atlantic could be a major hazard to shipping for all the ice that exists between the Sussexes in California and King Charles<\/a>, Queen Camilla<\/a>, Prince William<\/a> and Princess Catherine<\/a> in Windsor<\/a>. Only days ago Meghan appeared to support William after his light-hearted Heart FM show interview when he said he preferred eating scones the same as the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> – cream on first and then jam.<\/p>\n

Shortly after William said it, Meghan Markle<\/a>‘s lifestyle brand As Ever posted a video of a sliced scone with a dollop of cream added first – then topped with a spoonful of Meghan’s raspberry spread, honey and flower sprinkles.<\/p>\n

Was she saying: “Sorry for our past rows, let’s bury the hatchet and be friends?”<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan’s recent faux-royal trips to Jordan and Australia were also seen as them showing the Royal Family they can – with reasonable commercial restraint – represent them abroad.<\/p>\n

But those gestures have been replaced with a big two-finger salute.<\/p>\n

Because Meghan has just rewarded a US online influencer – who has heavily targeted the rest of the royals – with a giant box of her As Ever goodies.<\/p>\n

The Notorious JTB, or John Tyron, is based in New York, has over 190,000 followers on Instagram<\/a> and just over 150,000 on TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back in February, he criticised William and Catherine for their statement regarding the Epstein Files.<\/p>\n

He wrote a caption alongside his video, which featured the message: “Future king & queen. Zero backbone. That \u2018statement\u2019 was a royal copy & paste.”<\/p>\n

The caption read: “You wait. You watch the fallout. You drop a ‘deeply concerned’. That\u2019s the leadership?<\/p>\n

“The internet read it for exactly what it was: polished, vague, and built to protect the brand. People want accountability, not copy-paste crisis comms. The comments said what needed to be said.”<\/p>\n

In other videos, he\u2019s slammed the Royal Family generally for their handling of the scandal swirling around Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein – most recently King Charles.<\/p>\n

But bizarrely on Tuesday, John shared a new video on his social media, unveiling the Duchess\u2019s surprise “generous gift”.<\/p>\n

The video featured the message: “The Duchess sent me a gift. This was not on my 2026 bingo card. Wow.”<\/p>\n

In the caption accompanying the video, he wrote: “I received a gift from @meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and I\u2019m still a little stunned.<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019ve followed me for any length of time, you know how much admiration I have for her. To open a package that came from her was one of those moments I\u2019ll never forget.”<\/p>\n

It contained a handwritten note from the Duchess and various As Ever products, including candles, honey and the latest limited edition matchsticks.<\/p>\n

But social media users were not impressed by Meghan supporting someone who\u2019s piled into the royals – especially since Meghan bemoaned in April being the “most trolled person in the world”.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry<\/a> also spoke out against online abuse when in Australia, hailing the country’s social media ban for children as “epic” from a “responsibility and leadership standpoint”.<\/p>\n

Having now rewarded a Royal Family critic, one user wrote on X: “Well, well, well\u2026 For years, Meghan has claimed she doesn\u2019t read social media and isn\u2019t aware of the conversations happening online about her.<\/p>\n

“Yet somehow she managed to find one of the most hateful anti-Royal Family accounts on X, send a gift and include a personal handwritten note. That\u2019s not distance from online bullying. That\u2019s endorsement! Shame on you Meghan.”<\/p>\n

Another one commented: “It’s always been clear she and her husband know and support their fans’ attacks against the royals since the beginning and they never moved a finger to stop them!\u201d<\/p>\n

So it appears social media abuse is actually fine and dandy – in fact if you’re especially nasty you may earn yourself a hamper of jam and honey. Meghan’s certainly got herself in a sticky situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when you thought Meghan Markle was extending olive branches to the Royal Family, they become nail-spiked bats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,234338,11061,4866,111,139,69,3578,4289,4290,17823,3164,91559,75964],"class_list":["post-462265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-influencer-endorsement","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-tensions","tag-social-media-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}