Meghan Markle is ‘keeping her cards close to her chest’ but is set to ‘return to public life’ with glamorous 2025 plans

Meghan Markle will make a spectacular return to public life in 2025, it has been reported.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has kept a relatively low profile in recent months, but has attended a handful of events without her husband Prince Harry.

Meghan is keeping her cards close to her chest, but is working hard on her American Riviera Orchard brand and a new Netflix show about “cooking, gardening and entertaining,” sources say Page six.

According to the website, the show will air in “early 2025” to coincide with the launch of her lifestyle brand – after months of confusion over the apparent lack of progress.

An insider told the newspaper: ‘She’s keeping her cards close to her chest. But I can tell you that she is the CEO of American Riviera Orchard, so all these rumors about her having trouble finding a CEO are false.”

Another added, “As far as Meghan being quiet, she has been busy in the background with her entrepreneurial endeavors. Both the Netflix project and its brand will be released on the same timeline in the new year.”

‘It will be a good year especially for Meghan. She has been working behind the scenes for most of the year to launch a project in the early months of 2025.”

Meghan launched her brand American Riviera Orchard in March and sent jars of jam to her famous friends, including The Office’s Mindy Kaling, her Suits co-star Abigail Spencer and even Kris Jenner.

In the meantime, according to Hollywood sources, she is said to have “wrapped up filming” for her new cooking and home show in July.

The untitled project in Montecito is produced by Sony Pictures Television’s The Intellectual Property Corporation and is part of Meghan and Harry’s $100 million Netflix deal.

The show was filmed on a property two miles from Meghan’s $14.5 million Montecito mansion, which she and Prince Harry, 39, share with children Archie and Lilibet.

In June, the Duchess sent friend and actor Nacho Figueras a PR package containing some dog biscuits and a jar of raspberry jam from her new brand.

In April, the mother-of-two sent some strawberry jam jars, part of an initial batch of 50, to famous friends including Kris Jenner, Mindy Kaling and Chrissy Teigen.

But months later, and the only sign of activity are the jars of jam and dog biscuits sent to the Duchess’s friends and social media influencers.

The Duchess of Sussex has also asked US authorities for more time to get her lifestyle brand off the ground.

Meghan’s legal team has asked US authorities for a delay in her bid to secure a trademark for her American Riviera Orchard brand.

She first applied for the trademark for her jams and homemade products in the summer, but the bid was rejected in August due to filing issues.

Meghan was then given three months to address errors and challenges in the application.

She has now asked for another three months to complete this. If the deadline is exceeded, the application must be restarted.

Meghan first filed documents with the US Patent and Trademark Office earlier this year, but was dealt a painful blow when the forms were not filled out correctly.

Remarkably, the application wasn’t even signed and she didn’t send enough money.

Meanwhile, Meghan and Harry have put on a united front in a brand new video set to the music of their friend Chris Martin to promote the work of their Archewell Foundation.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have focused on more solo charity and business ventures in recent months, rarely appearing together since their joint tour to Colombia last summer.

But despite reports of a ‘professional separation’, they take center stage in a new behind-the-scenes video of Archewell’s biggest moments from the past twelve months, with Coldplay’s Sky Full of Stars soundtracking the nearly two-minute film.

It shows the couple together at a number of events, as well as Meghan cooking with women, plus footage of their travels around the US and abroad – mainly together and sometimes apart.

Last night the Archewell Foundation released its annual report, revealing that the Sussexes have teamed up with US President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley to create a wellness center in Philadelphia for women affected by trauma, where a radical new type of therapy is being developed. developed.

The charity’s 2023 US tax returns have also been published, showing that income reached $5.7 million last year, thanks largely to a mystery benefactor who gave $5 million in a single donation, plus $335,000 from five other individuals.

The Archewell Foundation has distributed $1.3 million in grants to charities in the US and other parts of the world. Spending on other costs, such as salaries, event costs, legal fees and travel, amounted to just under $2 million in 2023.

Harry and Meghan are directors, but do not receive a salary. The charity’s tax returns say they work a nominal one hour per week, which People says is “a standard practice for directors of U.S. tax-exempt organizations.”

But the Sussexes’ right-hand man, James Holt, a co-executive director, was paid a salary of $228,500 plus $18,428 in benefits from January to December 2023.

Co-executive director Shauna Nep, who also has a close relationship with the royal couple, earned a salary of $272,241 plus benefits totaling $26,356. Communications manager Deesha Tank received $140,000 plus $7,100 in “other compensation,” according to U.S. tax returns.

The new report shows they paid $155,000 to Herlihy Loughran. It is run by Beth Herlihy, a former actress who once played a stripper in British teen soap Hollyoaks and was a loyal worker for the Sussexes after being fired by Kensington Palace following Megxit.

The Archewell Foundation, founded by Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, is now in its third full year of operation.

It has continued to expand its two signature programs: the Archewell Foundation Parents’ Network and the Welcome Project.

Following a successful pilot, The Archewell Foundation Parents’ Network was publicly launched in August 2024.

Its mission is to unite parents with first-hand experiences about the dangers social media poses to children.

Launched in 2023, The Welcome Project continues to empower refugee women through women-led programming. There are currently 15 active Welcome Projects across the US that promote connection and belonging through a range of activities including sewing, art, walking, swimming, photography, storytelling and cooking.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who insisted they would publicly remain politically neutral ahead of November’s presidential election, have now linked up with America’s first daughter Ashley Biden, 43, albeit through a non-partisan initiative.