Meghan DESPERATE TO SUCCEED

After her lifestyle brand’s first releases are mocked, Meghan Markle pivots

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She got herself into a, well, jam. One month after launching lifestyle label American Riviera Orchard, Meghan Markle sent out jars of branded strawberry preserves to 50 friends — but fans weren’t impressed as her pals posted about it online. “Tastes of desperation,” wrote one online commenter, while another deemed the venture “tacky” and several others declared: “Hard pass.”

When confidant Nacho Figueras revealed in June that there was a second, raspberry jam and also dog biscuits from the line, they were met with a similar cold reception. So, now, Meghan’s reportedly trading glass food jars for wine bottles, hoping to find more success by releasing a rosé as American Riviera Orchard’s first publicly available item.