Pocket‑Watching Meghan Sussex While Ignoring Male Oligarchs Tells You Everything About the Media

While Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire, the pocket‑watchers at the Daily Mail have never once broken down his obscene wealth or his wrinkled T‑shirts. But they will scrutinise a mixed‑race biracial royal’s jewellery down to the last penny. That tells you everything about this oligarchy era. White men can hoard unimaginable wealth without question, while everyone else is viewed with suspicion.

What the Daily Mail Said

Meghan Markle donned clothes and accessories worth £98,000 while promoting the trio of wines from her lifestyle brand in a slick, new advertisement for As Ever.

The Duchess of Sussex, 44, wore a butter‑yellow blazer from Celine retailing for nearly £2,600 over a £295 cream cashmere tank top. She finished the look with cropped white trousers, a brown belt, and matching £260 mules from Veronica Beard that share the same name as her sister‑in‑law, the Princess of Wales – the ‘Catherine’ mules.

Meghan accessorised with some of her favourite pieces of jewellery, including Princess Diana’s priceless gold Cartier Tank Française watch, a Cartier Love bracelet worth £5,800, a Juste un Clou necklace worth £15,500, a £17,700 Cartier tennis bracelet, and a £56,000 pinky ring from Lorraine Schwartz.

What Page Six Added

Meghan Markle dripped in Cartier, Lorraine Schwartz and Jennifer Meyer to promote her As Ever wine collection in a new Instagram Reel, layering on gold and diamonds to accent her summer whites.

All told, the accessories clock in at more than $130,000 at retail – not accounting for the Tank Française’s royal provenance. Prince Harry is believed to have gifted his wife the yellow gold Cartier watch, which his mother wore regularly from 1996 until her death in 1997.

Her outfit was considerably more understated: white cropped trousers, a white ribbed tank, a chocolate brown suede belt, and Veronica Beard brown suede mules. She topped it all with an ivory Celine blazer first worn to the Invictus Games in 2023.

But here is what the Daily Mail and Page Six will not tell you. Most of that eye‑watering £98,000 (or $130,000) total comes from jewellery Meghan has owned and worn for years. The Cartier Tank watch, the Love bracelet, the Juste un Clou necklace, the Lorraine Schwartz ring – she did not buy them for this wine ad. The Mail used the same trick during her Australia trip, where nearly £47,000 of a £57,000 headline came from pieces she already owned. They inflate the number, hide the context, and hope you do not read past the headline. As always, this is not journalism. It is a spreadsheet designed to manufacture outrage at women of colour while the racist trillionaire and his billionaire buddies escape all scrutiny.

Final Thoughts

Is the issue that Meghan Sussex, is a woman of colour who owns valuable things? The Daily Mail and Page Six continue to scrutinise her jewellery, but Meghan earns her own money, runs her own business and is not a working royal. Her current lifestyle is not being paid for by taxpayers. It comes from her and Prince Harry’s own work.

Meghan is an independent woman making her own decisions, supporting herself financially and promoting her own brand. Her Cartier watch is not new, and her clean, minimalist styling has long been part of her public image. So why is the New York Post treating her jewellery like a public-interest investigation? If the jewellery is not stolen and taxpayers are not paying for it, what exactly is the scandal?

The obsession says more about the press than it does about Meghan. A woman wearing clothes and jewellery she can afford while promoting her own business is not a controversy. It is normal adult life. Meanwhile, the same media ecosystem spends far less energy interrogating extreme wealth and political power. They would rather count Meghan’s Cartier pieces again than ask harder questions about oligarchs, public harm and economic inequality. That distraction has consequences. When tabloids turn jewellery into outrage and treat billionaires as untouchable, the public pays the price.