Meghan Markle appears to have been dealt another blow as her new brand, American Riviera Orchard, has 'failed to cause excitement amongst A-listers', according to royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams.The Duchess Of Sussex launched her lifestyle brand in March this year after reportedly working on the project for over 12 months, launching the company by sending out PR packages of homemade strawberry jam to 50 of her A-list pals.
And despite the brand having launched four months ago, Meghan has since only launched one more product after the jam.The second product from the brand has now been revealed as a jar of dog biscuits, with Meghan sending it out to polo player and friend Nacho Figuera, who shared the package to his Stories this weekend - just hours before the King's Trooping The Colour kicked off across the pond. "Meghan’s lifestyle brand, American Rivera Orchard, didn’t cause much excitement among A-listers when she sent fifty samples of strawberry jam to influencers in March.
She got very few endorsements," royal commentator Richard told The Mirror. He continued: "Apparently two more products, raspberry jam and dog biscuits, have just been launched.To do this on the same day as Trooping the Colour shows a very naïve approach to marketing as they know journalists keep an eye on what they do. "Nacho Figueras, Harry’s polo playing friend, posted that he’d received jam and dog biscuits and posted photos.
Whereas cynics might say the raspberry sums up the Sussexes destructive attitude to the royal family rather well, on the jar it said two of two.
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