Tag archives: Meghan Markle

Courtly Decisions
By Richard Mineards   |   May 13, 2025

The Duke of Sussex, 40, lost his battle for taxpayer funded police bodyguards when in the U.K. – putting him on the hook for nearly $2 million in costs. Harry was told his “grievance” over security was not enough to successfully change the decision. The Riven Rock resident believes he’s been “singled out” and “badly […]

Neighborly Support
By Richard Mineards   |   May 6, 2025

Meghan Markle has revealed the reason she opted out of filming her Netflix show With Love, Meghan at her $14 million Riven Rock estate. The Duchess of Sussex, 40, appeared at the TIME100 summit in Manhattan last week speaking about her lifestyle brand As Ever, as well as her culinary series which premiered on the […]

Sighting Mix Up
By Richard Mineards   |   April 29, 2025

Montecito actor Rob Lowe was not at all amused while strolling in Beverly Hills when the driver of a Hollywood tour bus mistakenly identified him as sitcom legend John Stamos. He said “What the f–k” to the camera filming him before marching up to the orange and pink bus packed with film and TV fans. […]

Spaced Out
By Richard Mineards   |   April 22, 2025

Blue Origins New Shepard rocket launched on Monday with its all-female crew, including Santa Barbara singer Katy Perry, CBS News anchor Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez, fiancée of Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos. It soared through the Texas sky with the tony triumvirate and three other crew members enjoying a few minutes in space before returning […]

As Ever Sold Out
By Richard Mineards   |   April 15, 2025

The verdict is in on Meghan Markle’s long awaited and rebranded As Ever raspberry spread. “It might be time for her to ‘concentrate’ on a new formula,” is the withering opinion by Jane Herz in London’s Daily Mail, my former employer, who managed to get her hands on a $9 7.6-ounce jar ($14 for “keepsake […]

Normal Montecito Livin’
By Richard Mineards   |   April 1, 2025

Meghan Markle has made friends locally with “working women with normal jobs,” she tells People magazine. This comes after critics of her Netflix lifestyle show told the Duchess of Sussex she was “out of touch” and “tone deaf.” But Meghan says she and Prince Harry, who live on a $14.65 million estate in Riven Rock, […]

Podcasting Confessions
By Richard Mineards   |   March 25, 2025

Just a week after launching her new Netflix culinary series With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex is back in the podcast game. Meghan Markle has launched Confessions of a Female Founder with Lemonada Media. “I’ve been having candid comments with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities and scaled small ideas into amazingly […]

Mar y Cel Sold!
By Richard Mineards   |   March 18, 2025

Santa Barbara residents Eric, former head of Google, and Wendy Schmidt’s family foundation has purchased the 350-acre parcel of land known as Mar y Cel, the largest contiguous undeveloped property in Montecito. In keeping with their philanthropic focus on the environment and in recognition of the value of Mar y Cel to the community and […]

Heading into the Big Blue
By Richard Mineards   |   March 11, 2025

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s high life is getting even higher! The former Dos Pueblos High student, 40, has announced she is heading into outer space as part of the historical Blue Origins all-woman crew alongside Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sanchez and CBS anchor Gayle King this spring. It will be the 11th […]

Lakey’s ‘Making Waves’
By Richard Mineards   |   March 4, 2025

International surfer Lakey Peterson is coming to the big screen in 805 Beer’s Making Waves documenting her rise to fame and focus on mental wellness, including how narrowly missing the Olympic roster became her catalyst for deeper discovery. “You don’t remember the wins or the losses,” she reflects. You remember the in-between moments – being […]

Congratulations Frederick!
By Richard Mineards   |   February 25, 2025

My congratulations to Montecito film director Frederick Toye, 57, who has just received two of the movie industry’s highest awards at the 77th annual Directors Guild of America Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Frederick, whose mother is screenwriter (and MJ contributor) Sigrid Toye, received the Outstanding Directorial Achievements in a Dramatic Series Award and an […]

Sharpies at the Ready
By Richard Mineards   |   February 18, 2025

President Trump’s revelation to the New York Post that he would not deport Prince Harry if he was found to have fudged his visa application re: his drug use. Having admitted in his bestselling autobiography Spare that he partook in cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms could not have come at a better time for the Duke […]

A Smash of Wind and Brass
By Richard Mineards   |   February 11, 2025

It was the perfect combination when the 30-year-old Boston Brass and three-time Grammy-nominated Imani Winds performed at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lecture series. Adventurous programming and dynamic playing is the wind quintet’s trademark; playing Paquito D’Rivera’s “Selections from Aires Tropicales” and even Stevie Wonder […]

In the Papers
By Richard Mineards   |   February 4, 2025

It has been a tale of two cities for Riven Rock resident Prince Harry. His New Year started with Condé Nast, the giant publishing company in New York and owner of the celebrity glossy Vanity Fair, publishing an excoriating 8,000-word cover story about King Charles III’s youngest son and his former actress wife Meghan Markle.  […]

Altadena Girls Get Support
By Richard Mineards   |   January 28, 2025

Meghan Markle, who visited fire victims in Pasadena with husband Prince Harry, flew solo while supporting teenage girls struggling in the aftermath of the catastrophic Los Angeles blaze which devastated 23,700 acres. Last week the Duchess of Sussex, 43, dropped off donations and volunteered at a relief center in Altadena run by Altadena Girls, a […]

Sending Support Down South
By Richard Mineards   |   January 21, 2025

Guy, Meghan Markle’s rescue beagle, has died. The Duchess of Sussex shared the sad news of her “sweet” pooch, who is appearing in her new Netflix homemaking show With Love, Meghan which was due to debut this week, but has now been postponed to March 4 given the conflagration in Los Angeles which has now […]

The Next Binge
By Richard Mineards   |   January 14, 2025

With Love, Meghan – the Duchess of Sussex’s long-awaited cookery and homemaking series on Netflix – launches on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The series with her lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard was first teased last March and shows Markle cooking in the Montecito kitchen of two good friends, Tom and Sherrie Cipolla, who split their time […]

Everyone’s a Critic
By Richard Mineards   |   December 24, 2024

The reviews are in for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s latest Netflix endeavor Polo, the penultimate installment of their $100 million deal with the streaming giant. But despite the likely high hopes it would join the ranks of works like Disney’s soccer saga with Ryan Reynolds, Welcome to Wrexham, and 2020’s, The Last Dance, the […]

Local Couple Likes Living Here
By Richard Mineards   |   December 17, 2024

Prince Harry and wife Meghan have no plans to return to the U.K. with their children Archie and Lilibet. The Riven Rock resident, 40, opened up about his decision to stay in the U.S. at the annual New York Times DealBook Summit in Manhattan. The Sussexes have called Montecito home for four years after leaving […]

The Way of Cameron
By Richard Mineards   |   December 10, 2024

Montecito actor Josh Brolin has revealed mega director James Cameron’s reaction to him rejecting a role in the Avatar sequel, The Way of Water. The Men in Black III star, 56, detailed he declined to appear as a new character in the 2022 box office smash 13 years after Cameron’s original film became the highest […]