The Sussexes have many sources of income, from podcasts to informative books.
However, it looks like Meghan Markle will soon be making more money, bringing back her wellness and lifestyle blog, Tig.
According to the MirrorThe Duchess, 41, has Official preliminary approval to revive the lifestyle website.
She launched the ‘passion project’ in 2014 but shut it down after getting engaged to Prince Harry in 2017.
With advice on fashion, health and wellness, the website is thought to rival Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website, which is supposedly worth £200 million.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was all smiles as she left Gracias Madre in West Hollywood after celebrating International Women’s Day.
Perhaps ironically, given difficulties with her own family and in-laws, it’s thought the mother-of-two could also become a dying aunt.
Details from the US Patent and Trademark Office show that she can dish out ‘comments in the field of personal relationships’.
The website, due to launch as early as next week, could become the latest money-making venture for the duke and duchess after their access to royal funds was cut off.
Insiders say Meghan hopes to rival Gwyneth’s mega-successful website, which runs a lucrative trade in New Age wellness luxuries like vagina-scented candles.
Meghan founded The Tig, named after her favorite red wine, in 2014 while starring in the legal drama Suits.
It featured tips on food, wellness, fashion, travel, fashion, arts, design, and conscious living.
And, in the Sussexes’ recent Netflix series, Meghan raved about the website, saying: “It wasn’t just a hobby, it became a really successful business.”
She said: ‘I’ve never really been the type of person to just do one thing, I guess that’s how my website was born.
Will Meghan Markle bring back her popular lifestyle website, The Tig? She recently dropped a hint that she might be returning in her new Netflix documentary series, Harry & Meghan.
‘There was fashion, tons of food and travel, all the things I loved. Tig wasn’t just a hobby, it became a really successful business.’
Calling it her ‘passion project’, she used it as her personal blog for three years until her engagement to Prince Harry, when it was taken down due to ‘intense media scrutiny’.
Meghan launched the website while starring in the US drama Suits.
He named it after his favorite type of wine, Tignanello.
“It was an ah-ha moment at its best,” he blogged about tasting wine for the first time. “For me it became a ‘Tig’ moment, a get it moment.”
Meghan’s longtime friend, Suits director and producer Silver Tree, explained in the docuseries: “When she first described (the blog) to me, she said, ‘It’s like your best friend tells you all the fun things you’d like to know.” in one place.”‘
The mother of two used the website to share her views on everything from feminism to her passion for philanthropy.
The 41-year-old Duchess of Sussex first launched the website, which she called her “passion project”, in 2014, and for three years used it as her personal blog.
However, it was deactivated in April 2017, just months before she became engaged to her now-husband, Prince Harry.
Rumors have been circulating that the lifestyle blog could make a comeback since word hit the web in January this year that she had filed to register the name months earlier.
And the Duchess fueled speculation around the blog after mentioning its ‘success’ in her and Harry’s Netflix documentary.
An avid foodie, she also shared recipes, as well as makeup and beauty tips, travel advice, and interviews with her celebrity friends, including tennis star Serena Williams and actress Priyanka Chopra.
When he closed the blog in 2017, he reflected on how it “evolved into an incredible community of inspiration, support, fun, and frivolity.”
He also encouraged his readers not to “forget your value” and to “keep finding those Tig moments of discovery.”
According to royal biographers Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, she decided to end The Tig due to the “intense media scrutiny” she was facing in the midst of her relationship with Harry.
“It wasn’t so much that her blog was criticized as it was used to fuel false speculation about her personal life with the prince,” they wrote in their book Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. by cheat sheet.
“If she and Harry weren’t seen in three days, someone on a gossip blog would take out her recipe for acai bowls and write a story saying that’s what she was serving her new man.”
The mother of two used the website to share her views on everything from feminism to her passion for philanthropy.
An avid foodie, she also shared recipes, as well as makeup and beauty tips, travel advice, and interviews with her celebrity friends, including Serena Williams and Priyanka Chopra.
For Father’s Day in June 2014, Meghan dedicated a post to her father, retired Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, 78.
She called him “thoughtful, inspiring, hard-working” and praised him for the “blood, sweat and tears of this man (who came from such a young age in a small Pennsylvania town where Christmas stockings were filled with oranges and dinners it was potatoes and spam ) invested in my future so that I could grow up and have as much.’
The Duchess recalled that her father “religiously” took her to his dance classes every Saturday morning, despite working more than 75 hours a week.
She also noted his determination to light up his high school musicals, as well as the fishing trips the duo would enjoy, and the lessons he taught her, including writing thank-you notes and always being early for occasions.
Meghan, who is known to be close with her mother Doria, also shared the life lessons her mother taught her in a new blog post from The Tig in May 2014.
When he closed the blog in 2017, he reflected on how it had “evolved into an incredible community of inspiration, support, fun, and frivolity.”
The Duchess explained how she finally understood all the moments when her father, 66, who said he was a “free spirit”, was trying to keep her safe, or to appreciate the outdoors or learn history.
She mentioned jogging together, enjoying after-school bike rides, cooking together, and vacationing in Oaxaca, Mexico, and recalled visiting her grandmothers with her mother.
Meghan wrote: ‘She was keeping me safe. She was teaching me to take care of my body. She was introducing me to history and fostering a love of being outdoors.
‘She was planting the seed for me to become a foodie. She was showing me how to be a daughter, not just now, but for when she turned me into that grown woman. For now. And in thirty years. she loved me. So tight.
‘To all the wonderful moms in this world, thank you. For all the lessons, for all the love. For you. I love you mommy.’
