Meghan Markle is “strategic” when it comes to choosing her friends, royal expert Charlotte Griffiths told Palace Confidential.
Speaking on Mail+’s weekly chat show, the Mail on Sunday’s editor-at-large said the Duchess of Sussex, 42, who lives in Montecito, doesn’t have many friends.
As Meghan sends the first batch of her American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam to her friends in a total of 50 jars, she joked that Meghan may not have enough friends to distribute so many products.
Griffiths added that Meghan is famous for “unfriending her friends,” noting that the word “Markled” has been coined as slang in recent years for distancing oneself from a friendship, and even appears in the Urban Dictionary.
According to the slang website, being ‘Markled’ means: ‘Abandon someone or something after they have contributed to your life in a significant way.’
Griffiths said on the show that the phrase exists because the mother of two “has stopped being friends with a lot of people she knows.”
The talk show discussed how Meghan is famous for “unfriending her friends,” noting that there is a verb in Urban Dictionary for this phenomenon.
Speaking on Mail+’s weekly talk show, Charlotte Griffiths said the Duchess of Sussex doesn’t have many friends.
‘[She’s unfriended] family members, suit co-stars, her best friend Jessica Mulroney, whose children were pages at the royal wedding.
Meghan’s relationship with Jessica Mulroney cooled in 2020 after the Toronto-based fashion designer became caught up in a ‘white privilege’ row in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
After influencer Sasha Exeter criticized Mulroney for displaying “white privilege,” Meghan distanced herself from her one-time best friend.
A source told Page Six that the duo’s relationship was already in trouble because Meghan felt Jessica was trying to “make a career out of the friendship.”
Griffiths added: “For someone who is really famous for unfriending her friends or pushing them aside, it’s surprising that she mentioned the word friendship in the blurb for this leaked documentary.
“I think she’s a little strategic with her friends and once she’s done with them, she puts them aside and completely forgets about them, deletes their number and in some cases blocks him.”
Harry and Meghan will launch two new Netflix shows about cooking, gardening and polo as part of their current $100 million deal with the streaming site.
Jessica Mulroney and actress Meghan Markle attend the World Vision event held at Lumas Gallery on March 22, 2016 in Toronto. The pair are believed to have fallen out after Jessica became involved in a racial dispute over ‘white privilege’ with blogger Sasha Exeter.
The couple has two non-fiction projects in the works, stemming from the launch of their new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard.
The Duchess will focus on lifestyle-focused topics such as gardening and cooking in a move that will likely allow her to cross-promote her brand and the first series will see her “celebrate the pleasures of cooking, gardening , entertainment and friendship”.
Meghan sent 50 jars of her new jam to her friends, including Delfina Blaquier and fashion designer Tracy Robbins, who shared photos on Instagram.
But Griffiths is not convinced that Meghan has an extensive list of friends. She said: ‘Going back to the jam thing, the other big joke that’s been going around all week is how do you know there are 50 people to send jam to?
‘This is a woman who doesn’t have 50 friends as far as we know. It’s a bit like the guest list at a royal wedding.
Griffiths said Meghan invited people she didn’t know well to her wedding, including Oprah, whom she is believed to have met only once in person before the big day. Above: Oprah at Meghan and Harry’s wedding in 2018
Griffiths added that Meghan is famous for “unfriending her friends” on the talk show Palace Confidential, and noted that there is a verb in Urban Dictionary for this phenomenon. Above (left to right) Charlotte Griffiths, Richard Eden, Rebecca English and Jo Elvin
“She invited people she barely knew to her royal wedding, like Oprah, who was actually just after an interview with her, but she barely knew Oprah at the time.”
The chat show host had been invited to the ceremony at St George’s Chapel, inside Windsor Castle, despite having only met Meghan face-to-face once and is not believed to have met Harry in person before. of the special day.
The 800 guests were invited to enjoy a “wedding breakfast” in the Great Hall of Windsor Castle after the ceremony.
However, only 200 guests were invited to a dinner in the grounds of Frogmore House that night, paid for by his father-in-law, King Charles.
The couple reportedly split the guest list so they could each invite 100 people and it is understood the Duchess used her quota to include Oprah in the evening’s invite.