Meghan Markle is set to make a spectacular return to public life in 2025, it has been reported.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, has kept a relatively low profile over the last few months but has attended a handful of events without her husband Prince Harry.
Meghan has been ‘keeping her cards close to her chest’ but is working hard on her brand American Riviera Orchard and a new Netflix show around ‘cooking, gardening and entertaining’, sources told PageSix.
According to the website, the show is set to air in ‘early 2025’, joined by the launch of her lifestyle brand – after months of confusion surrounding its apparent lack of progress.
An insider told the paper: ‘She’s been 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 a hard time finding a CEO are false.’
Another added: ‘As far as Meghan being quiet, she’s been in the background working on her entrepreneurial efforts. Both the Netflix project and her brand will come out within the same timeline in the New Year.’
‘It’s going to be a good year for Meghan specifically, she’s spent the majority of the year doing work behind the scenes to launch a project in the first few months of 2025.’
Meghan initially launched her American Riviera Orchard brand in March, sending out jars of jam to her celebrity pals including The Office’s Mindy Kaling, her Suits co-star Abigail Spencer and even Kris Jenner.
Meghan Markle is set to make a spectacular return to public life in 2025, it has been reported. Meghan and Harry are pictured in May during their Nigeria tour
Meanwhile she was said to have ‘wrapped up filming’ for her new cooking and home show in July, according to Hollywood sources.
The untitled project in Montecito is being produced by Sony Pictures Television’s The Intellectual Property Corporation and is part of Meghan and Harry’s $100million Netflix deal.
The show was filmed at a property two miles from Meghan’s $14.5million 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 a number of strawberry jam jars, which were part of an initial batch of 50, to celebrity pals, including Kris Jenner, Mindy Kaling and Chrissy Teigen.
But months later, and the only sign of activity has been 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 an extension in her attempt to secure a trademark for her American Riviera Orchard brand.
Meghan has so far only released snippets of her brand American Riviera Orchard (pictured)
Many of her celebrity pals, including Kris Jenner, have sampled the jam
Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend were among the A-listers to join Meghan Markle’s select circle of ‘jamfluencers’ who were given a chance to sample her new product earlier this year
Meghan has asked US authorities for more time to get her lifestyle brand off the ground
She first applied for the trademark for her jams and homemade goods in the summer – but the bid was rejected in August due to issues with the filing.
Meghan was then given three months to address errors and challenges to the application.
She has now asked for another three months to complete this. If the deadline is missed, the application will need to be started again.
American Rivera Orchard soft launched earlier this year as a lifestyle brand that will sell products such as jams and cookbooks
Meghan first lodged documents with the US Patent and Trademark Office earlier this year but suffered an embarrassing blow when the forms were not filled in 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 their friend Chris Martin‘s music to promote the work of their Archewell Foundation.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spent recent months focussing on more solo charity and business ventures, rarely appearing together since their joint tour to Colombia over the summer.
But despite reports of a ‘professional separation’, they are front and centre of a new behind-the-scenes video of Archewell’s major moments of the past 12 months with Coldplay‘s Sky Full of Stars as the soundtrack to the near-two minute film.
