Lucky subscribers to ‘As Ever’, Meghan Markle’s Pravda-esque newsletter, were given an exclusive insight this festive season into how the Duchess of Sussex would be spending the Christmas period. She wrote that “Last night, I was nibbling the remnants of our Christmas Eve feast (dim sum this year), wrapping a few last-minute gifts, and tiptoeing down the stairs with my husband to make sure ‘Santa’ had enjoyed his cookies and ‘the reindeer’ had eaten their carrots. Anything to maintain the morning magic of Christmas through our children’s eyes.” She went on to offer further heartwarming domestic details, saying “I plan to spend today cuddled up with my family – maybe pajamas all day, some Scrabble or Sequence (or Candyland for the kids), music playing, candles flickering, dogs snoring, endless grazing; the laughter, the sidebars, the deep breaths (you know the ones), the fun, and the memories.”
All wholly commendable, if rather bland, stuff: the preserve of any well-to-do Montecito family. Yet curiously absent from this litany of heartwarming activities was any mention of the structural chaos that appears to have engulfed Brand Sussex over recent weeks. It has been revealed that not only has the eleventh – eleventh! – publicist who works for Megs ’n’ Hal departed, but James Holt, executive director of the Archewell Foundation that the couple established, has decided that a better future awaits him outside the auspices of California after five years working for the newly renamed Archewell Philanthropies.
