{"id":571540,"date":"2026-08-17T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:14:10","slug":"meghan-markles-trump-card-over-king-charles-isnt-what-it-seems-its-embarrassing-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571540\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle’s ‘trump card’ over King Charles isn’t what it seems – it’s embarrassing | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, the monarch’s Highgrove store website got around 48,326 visits in the same month. Its six-month average is 56,574. This works out at the King’s site getting nearly 40% of the views Meghan’s got.<\/p>\n

Let’s consider the effort Meghan has put into promoting her brand.<\/p>\n

She visited Australia with Prince Harry<\/a> earlier this year, and it has been speculated that the country is considered as a potentially bountiful market for As Ever.<\/p>\n

It is believed to have registered trademarks in 12 different product categories in Australia in 2025.<\/p>\n

Meghan’s Netflix<\/a> show has also been used to mention her products.<\/p>\n

The duchess has also gifted some to celebrities like Kris Jenner, Mindy Kaling, Chrissy Teigen and Tracy Robbins in an apparent effort to make some of her offerings go viral.<\/p>\n

You’d expect a heck of a lot more visitors to her website as a result.<\/p>\n

The King, meanwhile, has done none of this for his shop.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine him preparing food on a Netflix show. That might actually be worth a watch were it to ever happen.<\/p>\n

He did a great job presenting the weather on the BBC<\/a> and can of course speak well to an audience.<\/p>\n

No, Charles has been getting on with the day job as the UK’s head of state and head of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

And yet his Highgrove shop is not doing too badly at all when compared to his daughter-in-law’s numbers.<\/p>\n

These latest figures are not a “trump card” for Meghan, they are quite embarassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, the monarch’s Highgrove store website got around 48,326 visits in the same month. Its six-month average is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88741,156,281756,11018,11061,4866,111,139,69,3164],"class_list":["post-571540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-as-ever","tag-entertainment","tag-highgrove-shop","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571540","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=571540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}