The Duchess of Sussex has expanded her luxury jewellery collection with several eye-catching pieces, including a diamond bracelet named for Princess Diana. Meghan Markle has now given followers the opportunity to shop the complete £75,000 ($100,000) outfit featured in her latest promotional images.

In photographs promoting her new £112 chocolate advent calendar, the 45-year-old was dressed in head-to-toe designer fashion and accessorised with three striking new additions to her jewellery wardrobe.

Among the most expensive pieces was a yellow-gold tennis necklace by Jennifer Meyer, valued at $61,250—approximately £46,000.

The full ensemble Meghan wore while browsing the calendar is now available to view and purchase through an online fashion advert.

Her look appears on Meghan’s OneOff fashion page, a platform that allows users to shop items worn by public figures. The Duchess earns a percentage of sales generated through the service.

Meghan is understood to receive a share of OneOff’s commission, which ranges between 10 and 25 per cent on each item sold. She is also an investor in the AI-powered fashion company.

The commercial approach drew criticism earlier this year after the clothing Meghan wore while embracing survivors of the Bondi Beach terror attack was promoted on her OneOff page. Fifteen people were killed in the attack.

In the latest images, Meghan appeared to honour her late mother-in-law with Logan Hollowell’s Diana diamond bracelet, a $32,550 (£24,645) design added to her collection.

She paired the bracelet with Logan Hollowell’s Reverse Water Drop Martini Studs, which are priced at $5,575, or about £4,200.

The Duchess also wore her wedding ring, a Cartier Love bracelet and Princess Diana’s iconic Cartier Tank Française watch. On her right hand was the unidentified pear-shaped diamond ring that experts previously told the Daily Mail represents “independence, self-love and personal power”.

Her accessories also included a glittering Oura Ring fitness tracker. The device was fitted with a £2,100 diamond-encrusted sleeve by Logan Hollowell, which Meghan was first seen wearing in July.

For clothing, Meghan chose a $695 cream cashmere sweater from Co and a khaki silk skirt by Argent Bias. The skirt originally retailed for $250 but is no longer available.

She completed the outfit with powder-pink ruched ballet flats by Aquazzura, priced at $1,369.

The images were shared on Instagram as Meghan launched the first advent calendar from her lifestyle brand, As Ever, in partnership with Los Angeles-based gourmet chocolatier Compartés.

Described as being “inspired by her Montecito home and garden”, the calendar features a festive illustration of the £11 million property where Meghan and Prince Harry lived for six years.

A press release said every element had been carefully considered, including countdown numbers hand-painted in Meghan’s own handwriting with edible gold lustre.

The limited-edition calendar contains 24 handcrafted chocolates. Flavours include strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and orange marmalade, along with a “special chocolate finished with Meghan’s own flower sprinkles”.

Compartés’ dark chocolate ganache truffle is also included, while Meghan’s handwritten details are intended to make each daily opening feel like “a small, personal moment”.

The product is priced at $148 (£112) and will be available to pre-order in the US on As Ever’s website from 5pm UK time today, with delivery from early next month.

Meghan’s business described this as the ‘latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration between the two brands’, after the $12 (£9) As Ever x Compartés chocolate bars.

As Ever explained that the box’s design was ‘inspired by Meghan’s Montecito home and garden’, and she worked on it with Compartés creative director Jonathan Grahm.

The product is ‘made to be enjoyed through December and treasured long after’ and ‘brings together the artistry of Compartés and the warmth that defines As Ever’.

An email sent to the As Ever mailing list last night said: ‘Created in collaboration with celebrated Los Angeles chocolatier Compartés, our limited-edition Advent Calendar arrives tomorrow for holiday pre-order.

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‘Reserve yours beginning tomorrow for November delivery, just in time for the season of anticipation to begin. Some things are worth the wait.’

Compartés said it was also selling three other ‘ultra-giftable advent calendars’ at $120 (£91) each, including ‘Enchanted Castle’, ‘The Nutcracker’ and ‘Winter Forest’.

Ahead of today’s product launch, Meghan also shared a video of her and Mr Grahm zooming around an unidentified estate on a golf cart on her Instagram Stories.

The Duchess, who was behind the wheel, could be heard saying ‘Hang on!’ as Mr Grahm added ‘Stay tuned!’ and they enjoyed a laugh together.

The clip was set to Michael Bublé’s hit Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) and captioned ‘Christmas planning in June’.

Meghan also included early prints of the box’s artwork and footage of her beloved black Labrador Pula carrying an As Ever plushie toy in her mouth while the duchess lovingly stroked her head.

She has continued promoting As Ever, which was launched in February last year, on Instagram since returning to the UK in August with the couple’s children Prince Archie, seven, and five-year-old Princess Lilibet.

Ahead of launching the advent calendar, As Ever shared Meghan’s top hosting tips, which include having ‘as much prepped as possible before guests arrive’.

Meghan also advised saving one ‘simple task for the end’.

In an Instagram post labelled ‘Meghan’s Hosting Notes’, her As Ever firm suggested it should be: ‘Something you can finish in the kitchen while everyone settles in.’

It added: ‘A little preparation goes a long way toward making hosting feel effortless.’

The advice was accompanied by a picture of Meghan tying a white apron around her waist.

The duchess’ Netflix series With Love, Meghan, which offered recommendations for hosting, cooking and crafting, was panned by critics when it was launched alongside As Ever, which sells jam and flower sprinkles, in 2025.

Meghan welcomed her close friend Kelly McKee Zajfen to the UK last month, and Ms McKee Zajfen posted that the duchess has been given a ‘loving’ reception on her return, which has been ‘beautiful to witness’.

The Princess of Wales’s sister, the then Pippa Middleton, once wrote a book called Celebrate, about entertaining, but it was mocked for its over-simplistic advice and even sparked a parody social media account.

Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan’s spokesman said yesterday that international paparazzi who were seen looking into the grounds of Archie and Lilibet’s school were ‘extraordinarily reckless’ and accused them of an ‘unacceptable intrusion into the privacy of children’.

Two young men with backpacks and using a white van are understood to have been spotted by private security and school staff walking the perimeter of the school and monitoring children.

A spokesman for the Sussexes called the actions ‘an extraordinary lack of judgment’ in the wake of the suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford, with a number of American children with families connected to the base said to attend the school.

Harry and Meghan, who returned to live in the UK just over a month ago, are waiting to hear whether they will be given taxpayer-funded security.

They pulled Archie and Lili out of their first-choice British school in September after just two days when heavy traffic in the area meant their private security team struggled to stay in a convoy during the school run.

The Sussexes stepped down as working royals in 2020 for personal and financial reasons but rumours remain rife as to why they unexpectedly relocated to the UK from California.

Speculation ranges from the couple wanting their children to develop a closer relationship with their grandfather King Charles, Meghan seeking a return to acting and the Sussexes wanting to increase their profile.

In the run-up to their return, Charles was said to be glad to be able to spend more time with the family but remained adamant they would not be working royals, and there was no half-in, half-out option.

Within two weeks of arriving, there was reported pushback from Harry and Meghan after a letter, authorised by the King, was circulated by the Lord Chamberlain to senior stakeholders in the Government and military reiterating the couple were ‘private citizens’ and setting out guidance on how they should be treated.

The duke and duchess were said to be ‘surprised’ by the formal letter and the couple, who are waiting to hear whether they will be given taxpayer-funded security, were reported to prefer the term ‘public figures’ instead.

Donald Trump has withdrawn his threat to restrict diesel exports after European countries agreed to release part of their strategic reserves.

The US president said G7 allies would make “massive” volumes of fuel available after urging them to help lower energy costs ahead of next month’s US midterm elections.

However, French President Emmanuel Macron said G7 leaders had also agreed that there would be no “measures to restrict the exchange of energy and petroleum products between partner countries”.

The diplomatic push came as average diesel prices in the UK climbed above £2 a litre for the first time.

The RAC said the average price reached 200.01p a litre this morning, setting another record. Analysts had warned that prices could surge to £3 a litre if Washington proceeded with its export restrictions.

Still, concerns remain that drawing down reserves now could leave Europe exposed to further supply shocks in the months ahead, particularly if Houthi attacks disrupt Saudi production or shipping through the Red Sea.

Mr Trump said the release would start “immediately”, while Mr Macron said as many as 100 million barrels would reach the market “within four months”.

Ed Miliband represented the UK on the emergency G7 call this afternoon, standing in for Andy Burnham while the prime minister attended his father’s funeral.

Economists said curbing exports might have reduced US fuel prices in the short term, but warned that the policy would probably have produced the opposite effect over time.

Writing on Truth Social this afternoon, Mr Trump said: “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately.”

Mr Macron later issued his own account of the discussion, saying the leaders had “agreed to work in a coordinated manner to help bring down the prices of petroleum products, particularly diesel”.

The French president added that member states would make production more flexible so refineries could operate at maximum capacity.

Under the plan, up to 100 million barrels of oil will be released from strategic reserves over four months, with the International Energy Agency coordinating the operation.

The US was understood to have asked the European Union to release 120 million barrels of diesel during the next six months.

Crucially, the meeting concluded that there would be “no measures to restrict the exchange of energy and petroleum products between partner countries”.

Mr Trump had said he was “very seriously” considering limits on diesel exports, with the US currently the world’s largest exporter.

Mr Burnham had previously said he was lobbying Mr Trump against imposing such an embargo.

Around a quarter of the UK’s supplies typically come from America. 

Diesel has been particularly hard-hit by the chaos in the Middle East. 

Even before that Europe had become increasingly dependent on US fuel after banning Russian imports over Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

RAC head of policy Simon Williams said this morning: ‘This is a pump price threshold that no-one wanted to cross – the average price of a litre of diesel has risen to a record 200.01p and is showing no signs of slowing, heaping more misery onto motorists.

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‘The cost of filling up an average family car is now £110, almost £32 more than it was at the start of the US-Iran war.

‘This will be very challenging for households and companies that drive a lot of miles, from commuters, haulage and delivery firms, businesses with large fleets all the way through to sole traders.

‘In a cruel twist, it’s diesel vehicles, which were once considered the most cost-effective option for lengthy journeys, that are now burning a hole in people’s pockets.’

The separate RAC Foundation found that average diesel prices on the Government’s Fuel Finder site were over £2 a litre earlier this month. But this is the first time the mark has been reached on the most-followed measure.  

UK officials spoke with their counterparts in Germany, France, Italy and Ireland yesterday as well as at the European Commission to consider using stockpiles of the fuel.

Britain holds only 40 days worth of diesel reserves, whereas some other nations have more than 200 days. 

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters yesterday that the US administration expected announcements soon from Europe about new diesel supplies.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said European states should release diesel reserves ‘immediately’, adding: ‘Our European partners should accelerate delivery on their existing commitments and make additional supplies immediately available to address ongoing disruptions.’

A Whitehall source said that Washington was deploying ‘brazen negotiating tactics’, telling the Times that bowing to US demands could lead to a ‘really, really bad’ supply shortage this winter.

There are concerns that the Red Sea could be effectively closed by Houthi action, sparking another wave of energy shocks.

‘These reserve stocks are there to act as a buffer against supply shortages,’ the source said. ‘They are not there to bring fuel prices down.’

Motoring organisations have urged the Government to extend the current 5p cut in fuel duty beyond the end of this year, when it is currently scheduled to be reversed.

A decision on what happens to fuel duty is due to be announced by Chancellor John Healey in his Budget speech on October 28.

Mr Burnham admitted earlier this week that the UK is on track for an ‘energy crisis’ this winter, as costs surge on international markets. 

A 4 per cent hike to Ofgem’s energy price cap took effect yesterday, and there are warnings that household bills are set to soar by another £300 from January.

Mr Healey has insisted he will try to help families at the Budget on October 28, but the Government is facing a desperate struggle to balance the books as debt interest costs rise.  

Campaigners urged the Government to make plans now to support all households with energy costs this winter because of the severity of forecast bill hikes.

Transport minister Keir Mather insisted the UK had a wide-range of sources of fuel.

Mr Mather told Sky News: ‘I want to reassure people this morning that the United Kingdom has got a diverse range of supply when it comes to diesel.

‘We have resilience built into our system for that reason. We are working very closely with our US counterparts to stress the importance of that relationship, and the importance of sustaining flows of diesel around the world, but also working through international fora in the International Energy Agency and partners in Europe from whom we get a proportion of our diesel imports as well.’

He added: ‘Although prices have gone up at the pump, the Government is aware of that and the freeze in fuel duty is still in place. People shouldn’t be concerned about shortages because of the inherent resilience that is built into that system.’

Pressed on LBC whether he agreed with President Trump about European diesel reserves, he said: ‘We’re working closely with our European partners on diesel supply. It means we’re continuing those discussions about how we retain our resilience and robustness of our supply chains.

‘President Trump is welcome to make those comments, we’ve got to focus here at home about ensuring that we have diversity of supply into our economy. Our European partners are absolutely central to that, particularly the flows of diesel coming through the Netherlands.’

Earl Spencer has set out for America on a highly public campaign, bringing with him a book, a long list of grievances and a clear determination to keep the royal family in the spotlight.

His three-part mission is straightforward: promote his memoir, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister; maximise its commercial success; and continue criticising the Royal Family, with King Charles frequently at the centre of his attacks.

“They have to gaslight,” he said in one interview. “They have to pretend there’s something wrong with my mind or my memory. There’s nothing wrong with either.”

For Charles Spencer, the American tour has become an opportunity to revisit old tensions. He arrived in the United States with his polished wardrobe, his grievances intact and plenty to say about the years following Diana’s death.

Television, radio, podcasts, newspapers and magazines have all featured on his itinerary. At every stop, he has promoted his account of royal life while taking repeated aim at his former brother-in-law. The so-called “War of the Charleses” shows no sign of ending.

At his New York book launch this week, Spencer was interviewed by royal biographer Tina Brown before a live audience. It did not take long for the conversation to move beyond Diana and towards his version of events involving the then-Prince Charles.

Rather than dwelling on Diana’s public legacy, the discussion returned to the tense exchanges that followed her death in 1997—and to Spencer’s recollection of what was said at the time.

“So, I was very calm,” Spencer told Brown. “And we know that Prince Charles can be not calm.” He also revived the story of Charles allegedly damaging a pen during a fit of anger, a detail that has become one of his repeated criticisms.

Brown laughed at the jibe, as did members of the audience, while Spencer continued to contrast his own behaviour with that of the King. “The point is, this is a man with a temper, and I was very even that day,” he said.

Yet his criticism of Charles has become increasingly intense. Spencer’s public comments suggest that his anger towards the King remains a central feature of his American media campaign.

Earlier, Spencer appeared on CBS Mornings with presenter Gayle King, a close associate of Oprah Winfrey and a prominent supporter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

The appearance offered a sympathetic setting. Spencer’s complaints about the Royal Family closely echo the grievances expressed by Prince Harry and Meghan, who have argued that the institution protects its own while excluding those who believe they have been denied recognition and respect.

In the studio, Spencer appeared in a blazer while King wore a pink trouser suit. Her tone was warm and familiar; his was measured and polished. The interview quickly took on the atmosphere of a friendly exchange rather than a hostile examination.

King praised Spencer for looking out for his nephews, Prince William and Prince Harry, urged viewers to buy the book and described it as “sensational”. She also raised the criticism he has faced over its contents, though Spencer rejected the suggestion that readers had turned against him.

“I’m getting a lot of criticism fed by Buckingham Palace but not from other people and not from readers,” he said. The claim went largely unchallenged, with King responding by congratulating him.

Spencer then appeared on The Current, the Canadian radio programme hosted by Matt Galloway and heard by an estimated 10 million people each week.

During that interview, he suggested that Diana may have had ADHD and dyslexia and said her phone might have been hacked. He also disputed accounts that she manipulated or collaborated with the media, arguing instead that she “harnessed their power” to promote charitable causes. He provided no evidence for those claims.

Spencer also repeated a provocative assertion from his book: that Prince Charles sounded “giddily elated” when discussing Diana’s death during a phone call. His distinctive, carefully controlled delivery gave the allegation added emphasis.

“He was really relaying to me how he had told William and Harry about their mother’s death,” Spencer told the programme. “I just noted his tone as being sort of buoyant… he did sound upbeat.”

Buoyant, upbeat? As Diana lay on a mortuary slab in a Paris hospital? I’m still finding this bitter interpretation of events and emotions very hard to believe.

When pressed by Galloway, Spencer admitted that he cannot remember what this jaunty, happy cheeky chappy Charles actually said in those dark moments, he only remembers the tone. ‘It was so jarring.’

Then, of course, there was the row about the funeral procession. According to Spencer, Prince Charles was ‘totally out of control, you know when somebody’s lost it. I mean, we know this is a man who loses it. We saw him lose it with a fountain pen…’

Not the pen again!

‘…signing documents just after he had become king. It was a bit like that. Sort of a rant is a good word… and he was rude about Diana and her sense of beauty…’

What?

‘Then he came in with that killer line, [‘we’ll forget her soon enough’]and that was really upsetting.’

Spencer thinks it is up to King Charles, not him, to explain these words. Yet we had a revealing moment of clarity when Galloway challenged Spencer’s portrayal of the King as a callous individual who disparaged Diana.

‘I didn’t set out to criticise the King,’ huffed the author. ‘And they’re not criticisms. They’re reportings of fact. I’m sure people in Canada will never remember but I was a TV journalist for a decade. I’m a historian, I’m a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I’m not a salacious gossip, I deal in fact, and these are facts that I thought were really illuminating.’

Darlings, he is not a gossip, he’s a historian. That’s a bit like saying, I’m not a stripper, I’m an exotic dancer.

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And while he vehemently dislikes the royals, he wants you to know he’s a member of a royal society. What a hypocrite.

If he were a true historian, would he want to rewrite history to suit himself and his own agenda? Wouldn’t he want the whole truth, not supposition and innuendo supplied by himself?

Elsewhere on this tour, Earl Spencer claimed never to have read Prince Harry’s best-selling autobiography Spare, which was published in 2023. What historian would turn away from his own family history and the important role he himself plays in it? None of it makes much sense.

As Earl Spencer continues his publicity tour, I seethe with the same annoyance and frustration as when Meghan and Harry were out on the stump, airing their peeves, implying the Royal Family was racist, belittling an entire country they found unbearable, intolerable.

Charles Spencer is on the same self-serving trajectory – and he is making an impact. His book now tops US bestseller lists while he spreads his grim message about our King and the monarchy across America.

After the Tina Brown interview, one commentator wrote; ‘We should never invite the British Royal Family to any American state occasions again.’ One feels that is precisely what Charles Spencer wants, along with destroying an elderly man who once got annoyed at a leaky fountain pen.

Wow! The sensibility of a real star 

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect… Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience – or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope… If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Oh, la! There is barely a word in Sense and Sensibility that is not as relevant today as it was more than 200 years ago, when Jane Austen wrote her first novel.

A sumptuous new film version has just been released, starring radiant Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood and George MacKay as Edward Ferrars.

I love them both, the costumes are exquisite, right down to the last pin tuck, the bonnets are bonny while the suppressed longing delicious to behold, yet somehow it’s all just a bit… boring. I got fed up of arty shots of bees buzzing around flowers in ye olde English countryside and readers, fell asleep twice.

Yet there was one wideawake highlight – Esme Creed-Miles as Marianne Dashwood. Esme’s portrayal of the younger and more impetuous sister might have been a bit frantic, but wow. She has really got something. When Esme, pictured, is on screen, you simply cannot take your eyes off her.

She is the daughter of Samantha Morton and Peaky Blinders’ Charlie Creed-Miles, and clearly a talent to watch. Not all nepo babies are a waste of space!

As pricey as ever, it’s the gift that keeps on taking 

All I don’t want for Christmas is Meghan’s advent calendar.

The Duchess of Sussex has launched her first As Ever Christmas calendar, called The Joy of Anticipation. It features an illustration of her Montecito home and contains 24 chocolates behind the festive doors and windows. And guess what? It only costs £112, which works out at about £4.60 per chocolate.

Choc flavours include raspberry, orange marmalade and ganache truffle. Each ‘piece’ is finished with its countdown number etched in Meghan’s personal penmanship, hand-painted in edible gold lustre.

A fiver for a chocolate? Is she taking the pith? Out of the citrus fruits, I mean. Stop it.

The attempted hijacking of the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday showed the best and worst of humanity. One pilot stabbed the other and allegedly wanted to crash the plane and kill everyone on board. He was stopped by the heroics of many onboard, including the stricken pilot and passenger Yaniv Hayun, who with another man dragged the hijacker out of the cockpit before going back in to ‘pull up the yoke and straighten the plane’, which he knew how to do after watching a tv programme called Air Crash Investigation. A horror, a nightmare and a miracle, all on one short journey. Thank goodness for a happy ending, for once.

What about Ed’s freedom of speech? 

If you want to understand the sheer idiocy of cancel culture, look no further than the Ed Sheeran debacle.

The pop singer has lost 500,000-plus Instagram followers because of something that wasn’t his fault and which he tried his best to rectify.

That’s cancel culture in a nutshell; the blind leading the stupid in a parade of know-nothing lemmings acting without thinking for the greater glory of performative identity politics and their own good selves.

To recap: the rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opening act from Ed Sheeran’s Loop stadium tour after he made a ‘Free Palestine’ statement before performing a protest song at two concerts last month.

He was dropped from the tour not by Sheeran, but by the venues themselves, who want all their visitors to feel safe, not just the keffiyeh-wearing rent-a-mob. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

Sheeran himself has said that lots of children come to his concerts and he has always wanted to create a feeling of joy in a politics-free zone. U2 confirmed this week that when they collaborated earlier this year on the song Yours Eternally, which is about Ukraine, Sheeran expressed resistance about doing such a politically-minded song. ‘You’re not going to get me into politics, are you?’ he fretted to Bono.

I respect his wish to stay above the fray. I applaud it! Isn’t that his freedom of speech, too? The other support acts dropped out, too. Among them was Finneas – pop star Billie Eilish’s brother – who said: ‘Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.’

For God’s sake. As if the opinion of some nonentity third on the bill matters to the crowds, who have paid their money to attend a pop concert, not a political rally.

I wouldn’t mind so much, but there is never a peep of protest against Hamas, a murdering death cult whose acts of savagery – at a music festival! – are somehow always overlooked by these pious peaceniks.

Meanwhile Ed is on the outs and Macklemore has gained more than two million followers. Sometimes I loathe young people.