{"id":111678,"date":"2026-01-25T04:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:28:31","slug":"duchess-of-sussex-hits-red-carpet-at-sundance-for-cookie-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111678\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess of Sussex Hits Red Carpet at Sundance for ‘Cookie Queens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe world premiere of the Alysa Nahmias-directed documentary Cookie Queens<\/a> got a royal boost Saturday night in Salt Lake City from a surprise appearance by Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a>, the Duchess of Sussex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe couple attended a celebratory Sundance Film Festival<\/a> screening inside Salt Lake\u2019s Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center where they posed with Amy Redford, daughter of the late icon and Sundance founder Robert Redford<\/a>, festival director Eugene Hernandez and Cookie Queens filmmaker Nahmias.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe showing from the couple was not made public before the premiere but it perhaps wasn\u2019t a shock to insiders as they are among the doc\u2019s team of executive producers alongside a long roster that also includes Tegan Acton, Hallee Adelman, Trevor Burgess, James Costa, Geralyn Dreyfous, Stephen G. Hall, Ruth Ann Harnisch, Melony Lewis, Adam Lewis, Ann Lewnes, Ann Lovell, Emma Pompetti, Chanel Pysnik and Regina K. Scully. Nahmias also produced the film with Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw and Jennifer Sims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 91-minute film is set amid Girl Scout Cookie season and follows four \u201ctenacious girls,\u201d Ara, Olive, Nikki and Shannon Elizabeth, as they battle it out to be a top-selling \u201cCookie Queen.\u201d Sundance programmer Stephanie Owens calls it a \u201csparkling film\u201d<\/a> that highlights the girls\u2019 \u201ccharm and unsuspecting sharp business tactics\u201d \u2014\u00a0\u201cthink future Supreme Court justices, CEOs and beyond.\u201d It\u2019s praise that seems to align with the Duchess\u2019s past promotion of empowerment as the mother of two young children herself.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe appearance comes days after Prince Harry sat in the witness stand at London\u2019s High Court to testify in an ongoing trial against the publisher of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Limited. During his remarks, he stated how hard it has been for the couple to deal with the harassment by the press, revealing that \u201cANL have made my wife\u2019s life an absolute misery.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee more views inside Saturday\u2019s premiere below.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex, director of the Sundance Film Festival, Eugene Hernandez, filmmaker Alysa Nahmias, Amy Redford and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival )<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAmy Redford and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex with guests. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival )<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe couple with Redford.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world premiere of the Alysa Nahmias-directed documentary Cookie Queens got a royal boost Saturday night in Salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35324,49944,3056,489,9,24,63,490,122,124,123,49702,35325],"class_list":{"0":"post-111678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-cookie-queens","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-festivals","11":"tag-meghan-markle","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-sundance-2026","20":"tag-sundance-film-festival"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}