Hold the front page -- could it be Meghan the media mogul?
THEY chose to spend Christmas 5,000 miles away from the rest of the Royal Family at Sandringham. But the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, currently enjoying Vancouver Island off Canada’s west coast with seven-monthold son Archie and the Duchess’s mother, Doria Ragland, have no intention of remaining idle for long.
The full scope of their ambitions is revealed by the trademark applications they’ve made for Sussex Royal — the foundation whose creation they dramatically announced in June, just a day after splitting from the Royal Foundation which Harry and William had jointly established back in 2009.
Documents just published by the Intellectual Property Office disclose that the couple have applied for trademarks on everything from ‘emotional support services’ to clothing, including bandanas and sportswear.
While some are predictable — those, for instance, concerning charitable fund-raising — others appear to indicate that former actress Meghan and Harry truly are intent on ‘changing the world’, as their admirer, Kim Kardashian, put it. (On a trip to a charity in Bristol last February, Meghan personally inscribed bananas with messages expressing her compassion for the sex workers to whom the fruit was being distributed as part of a food parcel.)
But arguably most intriguing of all is the application to trademark ‘magazines, newspapers, newsletters [and] periodicals’.
Meghan became the first person to guest- edit British Vogue, and in its September issue explained in her editorial how she and Vogue’s editor, Edward Enninful, ‘teased through how one can shine light in a world filled with seemingly daily darkness’.
Soon, perhaps, the Duchess of Sussex will ‘shine light’ as editor-inchief of her very own magazine.