Meghan Markle has teased a major announcement, with the reveal set to take place in just a few hours. On Wednesday evening, hours after the Christmas special launched on Netflix and during the German state visit in the UK, the Duchess of Sussex took to her social media to tease fans about a possible new product for her As Ever brand.
In a new picture posted on the brand’s Instagram account, Meghan can be seen holding three wrapped plaques, similar to those of chocolate bars, secured with a green velvet ribbon. The picture was accompanied by the message: “Things are about to get sweeter…”
It is not yet known what the new announcement is about, but fans can set a reminder for Thursday, December 4, at 4:30pm UK time.
It comes as With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration premiered on Netflix, with the Duchess sharing the UK’s “sweet” tradition of pulling crackers and revealing she puts a love letter inside the one she makes for the Duke of Sussex.
Meghan urged people to try to make “every day” of December “special” as the year prepares to end, adding: “But don’t feel like you have to do it all.”
The one-off episode follows the first two highly criticised seasons of With Love, Meghan and comes after the Sussexes signed their new watered-down, first-look deal with the streaming giant in August.
Meghan, who is estranged from her own father and has levelled various accusations at the royals since quitting the monarchy, revealed she loves Christmas trees, advent calendars and Yuletide wreaths – with trees allowing you to “really encapsulate your family story, really feel the passage of time and the different chapters of your life through the ornaments”.
She dressed up in matching festive red pyjamas with her friends, and made handmade personalised crackers, adding in a lavender roll-on scent for her four-year-old daughter Princess Lilibet, a tiny toy burger and fries for six-year-old Prince Archie, and a “little love letter” for Harry.
In the final scene, Harry appears briefly, dressed in a zip top jumper, as Meghan, in a one-shoulder emerald green silk Galvan gown which she wore in a photoshoot for Variety magazine in 2022, welcomes the film crew who arrive, with some wearing headphones, mics and Christmas jumpers, for evening drinks in front of a crackling open fire and a festively decorated room to celebrate wrapping the filming.
In other parts of the episode, Meghan offers her advice on tree decorating, saying she strings the lights so the tree is “lit from within and on the border, right on the outside” – and “the same with ornaments, you want to find the placement for them where they’re gonna find their light”.