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Callaruga Shark Media Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. The Duchess of Sussex shared a short video from the garden of her Montecito home,

showing herself cutting flowers before arranging them in a vase. In the clip, Megan says, Let's cut this before revealing the finished arrangement and adding To make this

The post drew a mix of criticism and praise on social media One user on X wrote Borefest, this is really getting tiresome The woman has nothing new to share

Another added The woman has absolutely nothing going on in her dull life And as she is desperate for content This is the best she can come up with

Yet another video of her picking flowers in the garden That's all she has to post about Her videos have sparked another round of speculation Not about the recipe she was making

But about a diamond ring that continues to puzzle royal watchers The Duchess of Sussex appeared in her latest newsletter Preparing a dessert made with her raspberry preserve Layering the jam with ice cream, crumbled shortbread and edible flowers

Meghan described the dessert as gorgeous with a touch of whimsy But many viewers were looking at her hands instead Rather than wearing her well-known engagement ring Meghan wore her Welsh gold wedding band on her left hand

On her right hand was a large pear-shaped diamond ring alongside another gold band. The mystery ring first appeared publicly in February, when Meghan and Prince Harry attended the NBA All-Star Game, and it has continued to appear during several recent engagements, including trips to Jordan, Geneva and Australia, as well as the July screening of Cookie Queens.

Its origin has never been publicly explained. The ring has become a frequent topic of discussion on social media. Earlier this year, jewellery expert Monique Daniels-Dore of Queen Smith offered her assessment of the piece. She told Hello,

Megan's latest ring appears to be a trendy pear-cut diamond. The stone looks on the warmer side, placing it within the lower end of the colour spectrum, and is estimated at approximately five carats. It is set on a sleek solitaire band, which appears to be yellow gold, complementing the warm tones of the diamond.

She estimated that if the stone is a natural diamond, it could be worth around £140,000. She also noted that if it were lab-grown, the cost would be significantly lower, around £8,000. Meghan's presence at the Sussex family's recent meeting with King Charles was not merely symbolic, according to former BBC Royal correspondent Jenny Bond.

Bond said, It's a good thing that Meghan was part of the family reunion at Highgrove a few weeks ago. this is especially as the children deserve to see some family harmony, it would have been damaging to have to explain that their mother wasn't invited.

Observing Meghan's birthday, Royal Insider Deep Crown wrote in his substack, One thinks of the Duchess had she stayed, the first American-born senior working royal, a major player utterly unlike anything the institution had produced before, and not without genuine gifts, the ease in a crowd, the instinct for a cause,

the camera's inexplicable love for her. One imagines her standing beside Catherine at some Commonwealth engagement, two women of different temperaments who had somehow, through the grinding discipline of the institution, found their footing together. One imagines the global reach, the demographics the monarchy had never been able to touch, suddenly accessible. She could

have been, in the correct framing, one of the most consequential additions to the modern monarchy in a generation. The Royalist substack in an article credited to both Victoria Guccia and Tom Sykes, Megan marked the day before her birthday in a very on-brand fashion by taking to Instagram

to showcase herself making an ice cream sundae, topped with her as ever raspberry jam and $15 flower sprinkles. A short video showed her sitting on the grass alongside her dog, who was fed a separate ice cream cone because the picture-perfect sundae in its glass cup apparently wasn't

meant to be eaten. It's no surprise the Duchess used her pre-birthday moment for a little self-promotion, given that this year bought some uncomfortable news that she may have ordered more stock for her lifestyle brand than people were willing to buy. Meghan has since gone out of her way to flaunt the expensive sprinkles, jams and candles,

using her children and husband to help make them more commercial. In The Express, Emily Ferguson writes, It's a pity we can't write about how she's made a new life for herself with her family away from the royal fold, having let go of her resentment of an institution she chose to marry into.

No one believes that she didn't know anything about Prince Harry or who his family were before they started dating, and no one is sympathising as she continues to play the violin about how horrible she was treated when she was a senior royal. Despite packing their bags and leaving for the US over five years ago, Meghan continues

to hurl attacks at the royal family, even if they've now become more subtle. Instead, she continues to anchor herself to an institution that she has spent years publicly attacking, ridiculing, condemning as rigid, racist and unfeeling. Her Instagram handle is Meghan Duchess of Sussex.

Her kids have royal titles despite their youngest child, aged five, having met the king just twice, being born in the US and growing up on the other side of the world from her royal relatives. And during her guest appearances on MasterChef Australia, the contestants created a dish