Garcelle Beauvais is the latest celebrity to post about her gift basket from the Duchess of Sussex. Garcelle received the American Riviera Orchard strawberry jam and some lovely lemons. As you can see, Garcelle received #18. I didn’t even know that Meghan and Garcelle were particularly tight, but that brings up something I want to discuss. The British media is obsessed with everything and everyone around Meghan and they openly harass and mock the people known to be her friends. They also want to be the sole narrators of Meghan’s life, and they want to claim that “Hollywood hates Meghan” or whatever. There’s a whole other story, where Meghan and Harry have been consistently supported by friends and people who simply like them and root for them in America. It would not surprise me at all if there’s a long list of people who have reached out privately to the Sussexes over the years to offer some support or friendship or help along the way.
Anyway, the ARO launch is going well, in case anyone is wondering. We’ve got mainstream outlets like New York Magazine and the Washington Post covering “the jam wars,” especially after those clout-chasing bitches running Buckingham Palace’s gift shop social media devoted a reel to THEIR strawberry jam. The Daily Beast has compared Meghan’s ARO gift baskets to Beyonce’s Ivy Park boxes, which were sent to all of her celebrity friends several years ago. As in, Beyonce and Meghan have gotten their friends and allies to promote their wares for free, just by sending free stuff and creating an air of exclusivity.
Meanwhile, even the haters at the New York Post predict that Meghan could easily make seven figures this year just from American Riviera Orchard. I mean, with most start-ups, the first few years, you’re lucky to break even. But we don’t even know what ARO is going to look like whenever it does launch. People will be buying it though.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Cover Images, Archewell.
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- Prince Harry And Meghan At 2023 Invictus Games Dusseldorf Event The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (centre) arrive at City Hall for the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 One Year to Go event. Featuring: Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Dusseldorf, Germany, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Joe Giddens/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Celebrities attend The World Premiere of Madame Web held at Regency Village Theatre Featuring: Garcelle Beauvais Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 12 Feb 2024 Credit: Ryan Hartford/INSTARimages.com
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- Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex attending the One Year to Go Event before the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 at Mountain Square Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Whistler, Canada When: 14 Feb 2024 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- One Year to Go event before the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 at Mountain Square Featuring: Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex Where: Whistler, Canada When: 14 Feb 2024 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at the USPA National Polo Center. Featuring: Nacho Figueras, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex after the Duke of Sussex played in a polo match during the Royal Salute Polo Challenge, to benefit Sentebale, at The USPA National Polo Center Featuring: Meghan, Duchess Of Sussex Where: Wellington, Florida, United States When: 12 Apr 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Someone mentioned this earlier, the gutter U.K. press feel like they own the Sussexes and are invested into whatever choices they make. Harry and Meghan are aware of this while continuing to live their best lives. Hope ARO is a tremendous success.
We’re behind you Duchess!
We support you duchess
We’re behind you D
The gutter snipes mock them, insult them, foam at the mouth over them, yet are the first to ride their coattails hoping to capitalize on their glitz and glamour. I hate this sense of ownership over the Sussexes and that they’ll only take the good part of this couple while trashing the rest. Despicable low lifes. I hope ARO is a resounding success and Meghan sticks it big time to these rats while laughing on the way to the bank.
Yup – we talked about this already here at CB. Like Ivy Park, it’s a huge honour, a real flex, to even be asked to promote it! It’s the opposite of sponcon, lol.
I’m sure that behind the scenes, celebrities and their teams are asking around – who’s next? How can I get a basket?
Makes you wonder if someone from the DB is reading here.
I have wondered that also.
Oh, there are people from BM definitely reading here. Also from KP and BP.
Hi Kate, I really do hope you get better soon for the sake of your children.
Oh and Hi Kate’s Mum, I bet you wished you were nicer to Meghan now. Look at all those contacts you missed out on when you tried to promote Party Pieces in “Overseas!” 😆
I love Duchess M flexing like this. She doesn’t have to appear in public to promote her product, and now her product is everywhere. Christy Teigen and John Legend were asked on some red carpet about the ARO jam last night and they raved about it and the sandwich she made w it and it was a cute free commercial for ARO. Meghan is SO smart and will be SO rich v v soon (she and H are already rich but this will put them into the stratosphere).
Some of the British Media are trying to say that Megan is charging her friends £50 for the pots of jam. Their jealousy has no bounds. They make things up if there is nothing to comment on. I’m British but I feel embarrassed.
Oh my God. They don’t know how things work, do they?
Having Chrissy Teigen plug your product is something well worth a freebie.
(John seemed really cute about it too.)
A few commenters here noted the exact same thing yesterday and on some of the other articles last week. And I’m sure that there are plenty of people that they are acquaintances with or friends with that we wouldn’t know about because of their level of privacy. We only knew about the Tyler Perry connection because of the level of insanity around everything that was happening to them then. Which is why the Harry is so lonely, they don’t have any friends stories never made any sense. You only know about Meghan having lunch with friends, or Harry hanging out with people, or who’s getting these jam baskets because they are choosing to publicize it. Which would lead one to believe that there are plenty of times that they choose not to publicize it.
Yeah it sounds like Meghan and Harry are well regarded by a number of their peers in Montecito and environs. And at that level of fame if someone lives nearby it may be easier to just go over to so-and-so’s to have dinner/hang out. The staff is discreet and the press isn’t around.
They’re pretty good at not leaking stuff; Harry is probably hyper vigilant about that and the celebs understand. So a lot of networking is going on.
We saw that at Costner’s big benefit do – H&M were there and were interacting with the VIPs there like they definitely belonged and were welcome.
The BM is like Wil E. Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons, trying to take down the bird. The Meghan has no friends is the ongoing scheme and the ARO rollout is the ACME dynamite kit that blew up on the British media.
Excellent analogy. And when they make things up, just like WEC painting a train tunnel on the rock, the real Sussex train comes through and mows them down.
And the British Media is attached to that anvil falling down, down, down off a cliff.
A lot of the recipients are fairly local. What if some of the baskets came hand-delivered or couriered or something like that (rather than USPS or FedEx or whatever)?
(Gigantic eyeroll if the rota rats publish on this tomorrow.)
Let’s raise a glass to thank the island rats for ARO free advertising and advance success.
The BRF and their propaganda rota truly have tried to do everything to undermined every aspect of the Sussex’s lives while seriously underestimating them, especially Meghan, at every turn. Jam has literally taken over, almost like they forgot the two with cancer and the one day a month working heir.
Jamsters vs The Firm (2024)
In a world where image matters more than substance a royal institution must fight to stay relevant to maintain their powerful. Can a ragtag team of Hollywood celebrities and their supply of homemade, handcrafted strawberry jam save the world from the centuries old colonizing bigotry machine?
Coming soon to a theater near you!!!
👏 I had that narrator’s voice in my head as I read this, well done! ‘In a world…’
👏 I bow down to this perfection. I can hear that narrator’s voice also.👏
This PR strategy has not only kept ARO in the media until the actual launch but it put an end to a lot of narratives pushed by the British press. I’m enjoying it and I will buying something from Meghan’s business.
I don’t even usually like strawberry jam and now I want some.
Ive not been personally invested in Meghan and Harry in general, outside of reading about them here, but I wish them the absolute greatest success outside the royal system if only to prove that Monarchy is an albatross around the neck of any modern person or society. Even if you don’t care for them personally, that’s worth cheering for.
I dont think Meghan and Garcelle are extremely close. They just met a few months ago at the Variety event Meghan attended and Garcelle actually fangirled on stage about how she couldn’t believe that she was in the same room as Meghan and that is a constant story that the UK press hates to acknowledge. We saw this with Will Ferrell and the guys from It’s Always Sunny fanboying when talking about chatting Harry at the soccer game and we heard it many times on Archetypes where guests were not only honired but sometimes shocked that they were asked to come on the show and speak with Meghan.
Mindy Kaling was one of the many guests who were excited to be interviewed by Meghan and now it does look like they’ve become friends since and she’s part of the lucky 50 which us awesome. I wouldn’t put it past Meghan to have reached out to Garcelle after hearing what Garcelle said on stage; she’s usually very sweet about that kind of stuff and we know she’s a fan of those Real Housewives shows(though i mainly know Garcelle through her acting roles in things like The Jamie Foxx Show)
Harry’s got It and Meghan has got It as well. Meghan was not an A-List actress before she got married but being Harry’s beloved life partner (and hoo boy going through some things) has made people realize she’s got It.
Meghan was a series regular in a hit show. Excellent
Garcelle Beauvais received basket #18. I lover her! And am glad she is representing the Bravoverse in jam.
Garcelle is so adorable. What a beautiful smile. Great to see her supporting Meghan.
ARO is going to be so successful that even the haters have to recognize its impending success. Love that! I wish all of H&M’s ventures the very best because their haters seeing them thrive is the best revenge.
I love her presentation, but I’m worried about her running out of home=grown lemons.
She can raid other backyards if she needs to … the lemons grow like weeds.
I want everything she is selling!
It’s California. Lemons grow there like weeds
Especially where she lives. Lots of commercial orchards there.
What are the chances that beyonce herself receives an ARO jar of jam?!? And the chaos that will ensue if she does, and posts it??
Where is Mary Pestor?
Doriafriend, there was another post like this on a different topic today. I hope she’s doing alright.