Richard Eden at the Daily Mail had a hot tip about an American woman hiring a photographer, you guys. Did you know that the Duchess of Sussex hired a photographer to take some family photos? The audacity! Why would Meghan do that when she could just cobble together her own frankenphotos and release them publicly as proof of life?!?! Eden seems particularly incensed that someone would care about her privacy and yet bring in a photographer to privately photograph her children and refuse to release the photos?? These people are so utterly desperate to change the subject back to the Sussexes.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were so protective of their children’s ‘privacy’ that they refused even to name the godparents of their son, Prince Archie. So it’s fascinating to discover that Archie and his sister, Princess Lilibet, have been the subject of a very glamorous shoot by one of Meghan’s favourite photographers.
I hear that New York-based Jake Rosenberg flew to California earlier this month where he took a series of pictures of Meghan on her own, cooking, and her with the children. The photo-shoot, at Prince Harry and Meghan’s mansion in Montecito, coincided with the launch of Meghan’s lifestyle and cookery brand, American Riviera Orchard.
The venture was unveiled last week, in a glitzy Instagram video, in which Meghan could be seen busying herself in a rustic-looking kitchen. The video was posted a day after I contacted Meghan’s office for comment on her plans. American Riviera Orchard will focus on home, garden, food and lifestyle wares.
Rosenberg, who is originally from Toronto in Canada, where Meghan spent six years while filming the television legal drama Suits, has photographed the Duchess many times. On his website, he says ‘his lens has captured the radiance of talent such as Meghan Markle, Oprah Winfrey, Priyanka Chopra, Cindy Crawford, David Beckham, and Michael B. Jordan, unveiling their authentic personas through his vibrant imagery’.
There have been very few photographs of Archie, who turns five in May, and Lily, two, issued by their parents. They did. however, feature in Netflix’s tawdry documentary series about the couple. A friend of Meghan confirms that the photo-shoot took place but insists they were ‘portraits for the family’. The pal tells me: ‘I would not connect those to the business.’
Rosenberg could not be reached for comment.
“Netflix’s tawdry documentary series” – it was actually amazing to see how many cute family photos were used in the series, and it just goes to show you that the Sussexes wanted to show off their photogenic children for a while but they simply wanted to do it on their terms, in a careful and thoughtful way. I get what Eden is trying to do though – he’s trying to say HOW DARE Meghan have her children photographed, presumably to aid in the launch of American Riviera Orchard. Like, these people have no chill – all we’ve gotten is a grainy little IG clip. Be patient.
Photos courtesy of Misan Harriman for Archewell and Netflix.
That documentary series is so not tawdry. Also why is it an issue to hire a photographer
I’m a poor nobody from fuckin’ nowhere and I hire a professional photographer to photograph my family every 12-24 months. I think it’s a pretty normal thing to do? Like, it’s not Meg’s fault the Waleses prefer Olan Mills. FOH.
Right? My niece does it several times a year for her children. How scandalous!
This man is old and out of touch. Does he really believe that kings and queens never had anyone show up and paint their portraits or take their pictures without printing the images for the public to see? Middle class people will have a professional photographer take pictures of their kids for the grandparents. This is an odd thing to get fussed about.
When i was a kid it was very common for us to go to places like JC Penney to get professional shots of our family and my sister still has professional shots of her taken of her and her husband and kids that are on the walls in her home and that she sometimes sends out for the holidays and we’re not rich. This is a very common thing here in the states.
Yes! Olan Mills would like a word.
How very dare she!
Breaking news, but can we get back to how much their monthly water bill is, and count their 37 bathrooms again? 🙄
Breaking News: Woman Spends Own Money.
I’m fairly shocked there was no mention of the environmental damage caused by the photographer’s flight–on what was likely a commercial plane filled with other people! Also, I expect Khate to announce some food-related venture (with a pic of her holding a jar of jam she made herself) sometime in the fall. She and Peggy were filmed leaving a farm shop after all–why not take advantage of that publicity…wait, I’m talking about WanK, never mind.
Maybe she’ll start selling her famous chutney.
He probably came to take photos for the new venture and Meghan may have decided to have family photos shot while he was there. He could even have had other business in the area while he was there. Big deal. The public isn’t paying either way so what makes it this guy’s business?
This was my first thought as well. She needed photos for The Riv and decided to do family photos while they had a favorite photographer on site. Efficient.
It could be she was taking some pics for ARO and decided to also take some family portraits. Whenever there is a professional photographer around you will be surprised how that can turn into other photoshoots,hardly a crime.
My guess is that those kids look quite a bit different now from the last time we saw them. Any photos or videos taken recently will not be released publicly I’m pretty sure. It’s very much a security issue.
That’s why I think we saw them so much in the docuseries – because a lot of the footage was older, and in more recent footage a lot of times you couldn’t see their faces.
I don’t know what George Clooney’s kids look like, nor Julia Robert’s kids. It’s a choice. Imagine how much safer they are because strangers would not recognize them.
Sure, maybe W&K can do the same and not rely on their photographic “skills.”
“The video was posted a day after I contacted Meghan’s office for comment on her plans.” Oh yes, Eden, it was you and you alone who provoked the unveiling of The Riv. How wonderful you are!
It’s interesting that he didn’t write an exclusive the minute he allegedly found out about the launch.
Eden is just that modest, Amy Bee 😉
These tabloid rats and assorted vipers keep harassing M+H by “contacting their office for information” when the entire world is aware that they DO NOT engage in any way shape or form with them, except in court. Makes me wonder whether they have been using false names or claiming to be representing different (even US) media organisations whenever they call.
And no “friend of Meghan” is talking to Eden. But lying liars always lie.
They’re still so pissed about being cut out.
I am so happy for the Sussexes doing this their own way, and not supporting the papers that made their lives so difficult. Anybody with a brain knows why. They would hire someone they know and trust.
Deflect deflect deflect.
Ol’ girl really wants to mud the Sussexes, he should just turn around and see the faults in his very own employers, KP.
Poor rats….. they badly want to change the conversation back to the Sussexes that mess is going to stay in salt island. Everything they wanted for the Sussexes happened to their boring favorites . It’s going to be a while before they can get out of that self inflicted mess. Love that very much for them!
Yup! They want all the focus back to the Sussexes and far away from their favorite couple. They go, “hey, look over there in CA, there’s nothing to see here in the Isle Of Salt, darling”.
Kinda like people hire photographers for their own family things, like family portraits on their own time, own money and like Meghan and Harry DON’T release them to Eden. Millions of us do this!
MILLIONS.
Alrighty Eden, what’s really newsworthy in this your little story? Oh, I get it: the Sussexes hire expert and professional photographers to take pictures of their family and their work instead of releasing Frankenphotos like KKKHate and Kensington palace. C’mon Eden, you know AND you can do better!! There’s absof***inglutely nothing to see there, move it along.
More projection to cover Peg and Cants a**es. Trying to make something of nothing is what they are left with. So what if she wants professional photos of her children. It’s her money and she can spend it anyway she wants to spend it. Doesn’t mean she has to put those photos out there. They are pictures for hers and what she does with them isn’t salt isles business.
How dare Meghan hire…..a photographer? The outrage? Who ever heard of such a thing? They are so desperate for Sussex news y’all. Next up, Meghan has to buy toilet paper for all of her 150 bathrooms, can you imagine the cost? Shocking!
Surely she has silk toilet tissue in all her 150 bathrooms… warm seats… and those bad for the environment shower things that wipe your bottom!!!???
Is Richard Eden stupid? The last family photos we saw of them were taken by Alexi Lubomirski for the Christmas card who is also a fashion and portrait photographer. So what does this have to do with privacy? No one knew they’d been taken until they released the Christmas card. This man is ridiculous.
The BM is mad they can’t change the subject re: Kate’sbmesa and they can’t access the Sussexes.
Tawdry? He says the same of ‘Spare’, so I’m thinking a limited (as well as inaccurate) vocabulary. What a silly, spiteful little man.
Sooo what I’m hearing is the rota rats have learned to stop attacking real pictures because the photographers come out swinging. Now they are going to attack imaginary photos that no one will ever see because its safer.
True!
If true, I cannot wait to see the photos. I’m so excited about Meghan’s new venture.
Lick rust Eden 🤫
Wow, they must be feeling depressed that their hit pieces don’t affect the narrative like it used to. Everyone is paying attention now to their game and they know throwing H&M under the bus is their go-to move. They know it thanks to the most watched Netflix doc H&M did. I saw criticism at the time why H&M are talking so much about the past. It was the smartest move to tell their story both in a book and in a documentary. They covered all their bases. If it was only Spare, a lot of people would only hear about it thorough tabloids’ headlines about the book.
So, I will confess something here, judge me if you must:
Every year we hire a photographer and have a photoshoot somewhere local in the area (outdoors.) I never release these photos to the press.
I’m sorry guys. I know its a scandal.
I’m quite scandalous too Perhaps we should send our family snaps to Eden?
@HEATHERC, I actually love this idea. I would genuinely love it if several thousand squaddies blew up his inbox with our professional family photos while apologizing for the oversight of not sending them to him sooner.
How very dare you!
LOL
Gasp! The audacity! How could you @becks1? 😂
Breaking News: Meghan took a dump in one of the 3000 bathrooms in her $15m Montecito mansion. (Or is it pile?)
Once again for the morons in the back, there are no “friends ” of Meghan’s talking to these fools. Because, let’s all say it together now, in Montecito there are no leaks!!!
Read your post and now I feel a poem coming on:
In Montecito
There are no leaks
So take a seat-o
You weirdass freaks.
🤣 Totorochan, the new poet laureate of the Sussex squad.
@ girl ninja, Meghan’s looks like new venture will be the rota’s source of content and income moving forward, since there’s nothing interesting with the remaining members of the RF.
All I hope is that New York-based Jake Rosenberg stays away from Richard Eden and any suspicious social media accounts named Maureen.
Who’s the friend talking to Richard Eden of the DM? As Kaiser said, the British press are so eager to change the the topic. People take photos of their children all the time, are we supposed to be outraged that Meghan got one of her photographer friends to take some picture of her children?
Um hello? If Harry would just apologize then I am sure William and Kate would have popped over after the market trip for a photoshoot/photoshop demo.
I’m sure he’s just salty Meghan didn’t call up her bestie SIL , seeing how she’s a professional photographer and they hang out all the time, to come over and snap some photos of the family.
Alas poor Kate is MIA so Meghan had to do without.
If the photographer went by train it would have been even more expensive, hahaha, what Eden says is idiotic , especially considering his faves fly all the time, they heli here, heli there, even for tawdry country diners, and short trips where they could drive in their much smaller country. The USA has four?! Time zones! It is a business, and she is employing people. This family can do just as many ithers do, lots of people fly for business, pleasure or to visit family. How are they different? It ist like they have a helipad in their many yards in their many homes.
Five if you include Hawaii (HST-Hawaii Standard Time). Oops, did a quick google because I just remembered Alaska. Alaska has two: Alaska Time Zone and the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone (which in Hawaii we just call HST). So that’s six, I believe: Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian, Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern.
Maureen Richard Eden is exhausted after trying to stick the Middlebum photogate mud to the Sussexes and it didn’t stick. Since he can’t blame them for the fraud of doctoring photos, he is now trying to scandalise a perfectly normal scenario. He should stay in his lane, why bother contacting them? They have made it perfectly clear that they don’t engage with rag that he works for.
I can guarantee that *if* the Sussexes do release photos it won’t look like it was taken at Olan Mills
🤣🤣🤣
I’m sorry but what exactly was the point of his story? ‘Woman hires professional photographer to take pictures of her children and keeps them for herself…’
Where is the problem with this? Oh right. There is none.
Meanwhile, many of us have done the same. In the past I have trekked to Sears photo studio to have professional pictures taken of my children. They were cute kids. The public doesn’t care about them.
Wow, Maureen. You really got them, didn’t you? Devastating reveal. True journalism. Congrats.
It’s hilarious to me how they try to make anything they do evidence of “hypocrisy” on privacy. Take private photos of your family that allows someone else to see them and your home? I thought you wanted privacy! Take your kids to a parade outside or on vacation with your friends? I thought you wanted privacy! It pisses them off so much that they just won’t allow them access to their kids or personal lives. They are so used to having that parasitic relationship with the royals they think it’s literally unfair to them.
Do you think they will publish a new picture for Archie’s birthday? They stopped releasing any personal pictures after the Christmas one ( and I totally get it) but since he is turning 5, I wonder
My guess is no they won’t. I think they’re done releasing photos of their children.
I wish my husband and I would have splurged on professional photos of our family over the years. Candid snaps are lovely of course but a reputable professional can bring something out of scenes that the rest of us just can’t.
I think it’s wonderful that Meghan and Harry have done this. And that they keep those photos private. I am perfectly happy to see a sprinkling release of photos that are years behind, if it means those children are spared the hounding Harry and William got as children.
Nobody in the public needs to know what those children look like in real time. There are too many people who are deranged when it comes to this family. And most of them are just ordinary people who like celebrity gossip. But they’ve been whipped up into a weird and scary level of hate somehow.
I think even Will and Kate’s kids are dangerously exposed. I’ll see comments on social media about Louis or Charlotte (supposedly made by average older women like me) frothing at the mouth at what a rude brat Louis is and what a bossy shrew Charlotte is …all based off a fragment of video in which the children are simply having very human moments under the scrutiny of crowds and noise.
Agree!
And love your name!
And this is Richard Eden’s business because???? How desperate is he? I’m a normal person and I get professional family shots every couple of years when the whole family is together! Can we get back to the Kardashian-Windsors please?
Why do the British trashloids? Keep Gladys Kravitz-ing the Sussexes? Where is Endora when you need her?
“ The video was posted a day after I contacted Meghan’s office for comment on her plans.”
I love the self aggrandizing implied caused an effect here.
“The video was posted a day after I contacted Meghan’s office for comment on her plans.”
I love the self aggrandizing implied cause an effect
Richard Eden knows his bread and butter is Sussex articles and clicks. Every week like clockwork he has some article about them for the Daily mail as an exclusive and to pomp out on that palace confidential weekly YouTube show. And they make sure their thumbnail and headline is Sussex related in order to get their foaming at the mouth royalist hate views.
It must suck for him that his entire living is based on people he hates the most.
This week he is so sparse of news of the Sussex’s that he is scraping the barrel and making calls in the US to see what people he hates are up to.
Hey Eden, tell us about the “TAWDRY” goings on in KP or how about how the “TAWDRY” waleses wheel out their poor kids as photo props and props for their failing marriage. And even then chaotic Kate doesn’t like the pictures so she commits major fkery with them and oh gosh shock, horror, she is caught out for the manipulative liar she is. Now FK thru hell of back under your bridge and keep Megan, Harry, Archie and lillibets names out of your mouth
Mary Pester, one of the things that I find interesting is people think that Bone Idle did do the Frankenphoto. The problem I see with that is all of the other photos that she edited/manipulated and took credit for. How do they still think that she didn’t do the latest one?
I’s just like to ask Mr. Eden: Where’s Kate?
The Royals used to do photo shoots with professional photographers. Has Kate become the official photographer? Has KP made none Rota related photographers leery of working with KP?
With Donna Summer’s “She works hard for the money” bopping through this noodle -oh Maureen Eden dog food subscriptions for this cut and paste dribble are not worth it. I know your puppy needs to eat, but all Middleton’s previous grifts have ended badly. And their greatest grift -Buttons gaining Big Blue-is on the ropes. Your fur baby deserves better.
So, all the professional photographers who have travelled for royal snaps never happened? I think Annie Lebowitz among other may have a challenge card for you.
Asking for my dictionary friend, do you think posting you and Windsor (your pup) in front of Boomf for dogs is “showy but cheap and of poor quality” or tawdry?
it’s crazy how strong the ginge genes are. the kids are very GINGER. i didn’t expect that given red hair is recessive. the windsor genes are strong. also….literally a million ppl hire wedding photographers and fly them around the country to take pictures. if you want the best photographer, and you have the money, why not.
Harry gets his red hair from the Spencers not the Windsors. Plus the photographer is one of Meghan’s friends so I think it’s about money.
“don’t” think.
my point is she has the money to hire anyone, fly them to their home to take her kid’s pictures. if it’s a friend doing it for free, great. but she can also hire anyone as well.
There is red hair on Meghan’s side of the family as well, so there was a much higher probabililty that their children would have red/auburn hair.
@ANNA, you will also find that Harry’s paternal great grandfather had an awful lot of red in his hair, just as both Charles and Prince Philip did. So Harry gets it from both sides of his family, I did notice that lilli, in the 4th July pictures had beautiful strawberry blond hair
I think you need the red-hair gene from both sides, so there must be red hair from Meghan’s side as well. Pictures of toddler Diana seem to show a little blondie, but she could have been a strawberry blonde like little Lili as well.
Meghan carries a red hair gene and a brown hair gene. Harry obviously carries two red hair genes. Both parents must carry the red hair gene in order to have offspring with red hair. Clearly, red hair runs in the Markle side of the family. Meg’s half brother, Tom Jr, had a head full of dark-red hair in a family photo at the age of 19. Furthermore, Meghan is distantly related to the Spencers via her paternal grandmother’s ancestry.
ana, it takes BOTH parents with the recessive gene to have a ginger haired baby.
Maybe it would be better for H&M to send body doubles to a farm shop in Montecito.
Haha! Maybe so 🤣
So I guess the plan to try to discredit Meghan and Harry photographs didn’t work out so well . The British tabloids got called out by the photographer by name so that tricks didn’t work and Getty also back up the photographs work . Now this which is just ridiculously stupid they are literally at this point throwing anything at the wall at this point . Everyday people hired photographers to shoot family portraits it’s not breaking news the British tabloids Are desperate to go to the days we’re they can openly harass and abuse Meghan for just existing.
Surely he must know that even us peasants sometimes go to a professional photographer to have our photo taken ? I remember doing it and hating every bit of it from the moment my mom and aunt had the idea to the moment when we were actually shown the photos (a mess).
This is his way of whining about the fact that the Sussexes use professional photographers who do not edit/manipulate the photos. It doesn’t give the rrs anything to write about, unless they want to end up in lawsuits by the photographers.
I admit I was surprised to how many family pictures Harry and Meghan included in the Netflix docuseries! I absolutely loved seeing all the wedding pics because all we had were the formal photos taken in the palace and their first Christmas card from their first year as a married couple, the one of them taken from behind as they watched the fireworks during their wedding reception. I was surprised they included so many pictures of the kids but they were mostly baby photos. Now that Archie and Lili are older, I think they are being more selective about how often they release pictures, so nobody really knows what they currently look like since kids change so much at that age.
Also I can’t see how them hiring a photographer for a private family photo shoot is worth an article, unless it’s just the British media’s way of begging for more pictures/trying to drag Meghan and Harry into the KatePhotoGate controversy. Misan Harriman and Chris Allerton have gone on record to defend the photos they took that were called into question of the Sussexes. So hopefully the tabloids give up that approach because all they’re going to do is piss off a bunch of professional photographers.
Jake’s been photographing Meghan since at least early 2013 till late 2017. They’re friends. This is someone she trusts enough and feels comfortable enough to have her children around and who she knows already takes great pics of her
Yes, Richard. We know that Meghan is your own BEC. You don’t need to repeat yourself.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a country sooooo super obsessed with someone who is from another country.
I know we have US celebs that others fanboy/fangirl over and American pop culture (for better or for worse) has been adopted in many parts of the world(inc where we’re currently living in Europe temporarily). But my God(sorry for taking the lords name in vain). Even the BBC buying all Of the seasons of Suits. It’s like a very very strange (sexual) tension or something. My husband who doesn’t even follow this also thinks it’s weird.
I don’t understand why this revolting man thinks this is news or any of his business. At least they are willing to use professional photographers who stand by their work.
Meghan and Harry will decide when to take pictures of their children-they do not work the British royal family and can take pics when, how, with whom and where they like-those salty islanders don’t have enough work to do there-leave the Sussexes alone and find yourself a real job.