Meghan Markle’s Martha Stewart feud signals a branding misfire

An opinion piece in The Daily Beast’s Royalist section argues Meghan Markle bungled her response to Martha Stewart’s comments about their California dinner, turning a feel-good Canada trip into a branding crisis. The author contrasts Martha’s decades-long authentic public persona with Meghan’s post‑Megxit branding, criticizing Meghan’s move to have People magazine push back as manipulative and suggesting she would be wiser to step back, let the dust settle, and rebuild a credible narrative rather than chase short‑term headlines.