Meghan Markle’s plunging US popularity after unofficial royal tour exposes key trait

Following Meghan Markle’s recent three-day trip to Nigeria with Prince Harry, a columnist has hit out at the Duchess’s popularity attempts, noted by US celebrities.

Meghan Markle sitting with Prince Harry in Nigeria

Celebrities are now seeing Meghan Markle “for who she is” following her three-day visit to Nigeria alongside her husband, Prince Harry.

A columnist has hit out at the Duchess of Sussex and her “unsuccessful” popularity attempts.

Daily Mail columnist, Maureen Callahan, told GB News the “de facto royal tour” of Nigeria only “serves to knock them down further and further”.

In the West African country, the Sussexes championed their Archewell Foundation’s mental health initiatives for young people and promoted the Invictus Games which Nigeria joined for the first time last year.

Despite their attempt at trying to be seen, the columnist claims Meghan Markle has not been present at high-profile events in America, such as the Met Gala, despite Meghan’s reported connections with fashion mogul, Anna Wintour.

She added: “We recently had the Met Gala, and there were no shortage of starlets on that red carpet.”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in Nigeria

Meghan Markle has not attended high-profile events in US such as the Met Gala

Maureen also told the GB News host that Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, is an “avowed monarchist” and claimed Wintour would “not have submitted an invitation the Montecito way”.

She then recalled a recent Vogue write-up which was published ahead of the Met Gala, which appeared to “throw shade” at Meghan. The columnist told TV host Nana Akua: “Vogue did an incredible write-up right before the gala of a dinner that Gwyneth Paltrow hosted at her Montecito estate, so a neighbour of Harry and Meghan.

“It was a Goop collaboration, and among her guest list were Oprah Winfrey and Ted Sarandos. So here’s Meghan attempting to get her little lifestyle brand off the ground, and Goop is clearly a model for her.”

The columnist added: “It’s further proof to any doubtful Briton that we here in America see Meghan Markle for exactly who she is.”

Meghan Markle has recently launched a new business venture

A first glimpse of the re-brand and new business venture from Meghan Markle was teased with pictures of a jar of strawberry jam labelled under her new brand ‘American Riviera Orchard’ which she sent to friends and influencers.

The release of strawberry jam from Meghan’s brand seems to fit with the couple’s latest Netflix plans. Meghan is going to launch a Netflix show which will “celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining, and friendship”.

It is not known how much items from the new lifestyle brand will cost, but the first social media video posted about her brand evoked a sense of the couple’s home in California and showed jam jars given as gifts in sunny baskets of lemons.

Harry and Meghan’s latest projects seem to be moving away from a previous focus on their time as working royals, as they film their next ventures for the streaming giant, Netflix.