Meghan has been warned after a big name appeared to call out the Duchess of Sussex in a recent interview
Meghan has 2025 launched her lifestyle brand, built around home, food, and entertaining products in April 2025(Image: Getty / AFP)
Meghan Markle has reportedly been “warned” after she was “called out” by an A-lister in a media interview recently. The Duchess of Sussex has been cautioned not to “challenge” Martha Stewart, who is a household name in the US.
The caution follows the Hollywood star’s apparent critique of the 43-year-old in a recent interview. Meghan’s Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, and her brand, As Ever, have both received mixed responses.
Last month, it was announced that the ex-actress would be filming a second series of her recent Netflix programme where she bakes and cooks from scratch, as well as creates homemade items like candles and bath salts.
Martha, 83, an entrepreneur, TV personality, and lifestyle guru, wasn’t afraid to ruffle some feathers while admitting to Yahoo Lifestyle that she hopes Meghan “knows what she’s talking about” while questioning her “authenticity.”
“Meghan, I don’t really know very well,” Martha told the outlet when asked how she felt about public figures building lifestyle brands. “I hope she knows what she’s talking about.”
Martha Stewart spoke candidly about Meghan Markle’s career as a lifestyle influencer (Image: 2025 Amanda Edwards)
She went on: “Authenticity, to me, is everything, and to be authentic and knowledgeable about your subject matter is extremely important.”
Speaking on Talk TV, Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield advised Meghan against confronting the TV titan.
“This is a tough cookie,” she said. “You don’t go head-to-head with Martha Stewart. You don’t challenge her.
“If Martha is critical of Meghan, she has to sit back and take it because not only has Martha built her own brand from the ground up, she’s lived through so many tough experiences.”
Markle recently launched her home goods brand As Ever, as well as her Netflix series With Love, Meghan(Image: Getty)
Martha didn’t appear to have a problem with Gwyneth Paltrow, actress-turned-lifestyle guru, though, who launched her wellness and lifestyle brand, Goop, as a homespun weekly newsletter from her kitchen in 2008.
“Gwyneth has been very successful,” she said of the Goop founder. “She created quite an interesting body of businesses. She’s admired. She won an Oscar for heaven’s sake as an actress! She’s pretty powerful.”
Seeming unfazed by the competition, she added: “I don’t mind. Good luck.”
It comes amid reports that Duchess Sophie is “relieved” that she no longer has to curtsey to Meghan Markle now that she’s landed a loftier title, according to a friend.
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Sophie, formerly the Countess of Wessex, secured the promotion when her husband, Prince Edward, was bestowed with his own new title to allow her to enjoy the prestigious name of Duchess of Edinburgh.
Prior to this, Meghan, as the Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry’s wife, would have been higher in rank, meaning that royal protocol stipulated that Sophie had to curtsey to her at royal events.
The royal, whose husband is the youngest child of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was reportedly “relieved” that she “no longer” had to abide by this particularly strict tradition, a friend of hers told reporters.