Meghan in Oz!

“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Montecito anymore.”

The Duchess of Sussex once wanted to be the Gwyneth Paltrow of jam. Now she’s sixth on the bill at an Australian women’s retreat

By Hilary Rose

My first instinct on hearing the news that the Duchess of Sussex has been asked to give a speech at a women’s wellness retreat in Australia was to say, “Ye gods, have they heard her speak?” My second was to wonder, “Has it come to this?” Happily, the woman who’s organizing it, a podcast host called Gemma O’Neill, inadvertently said that for me.

“Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,” she announced breathlessly, has “gone from Oprah to talking on stage with just little old me, Gemma, in Sydney.” Quite so, Gemma, although possibly not a sentence on which Meghan will reflect READ ON