Meghan Markle opts for ‘in your face’ money making ploy and rubs critics the wrong way

Meghan Markle recently turned into an investor into a fashion and clothing company called OneOff that describes itself as a “style-driven fashion discovery platform” but critics have a few choice words about the clothes she chose to turn affiliate commission from because of how morbid it was.

The event in question is the Bondi beach Hanukkah event shooting, where almost 15 people lost their lives last December, and during their trip to Australia. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a public event of it, however shortly thereafter the clothes she donned there wound up on the app, with an affiliate link that offers her kickback from any sale made.

Former BBC royal commentator Jennie Bond is one of those critics that came forward with her own thoughts on this move, and laid her thoughts bare to The Mirror.

“I have to admit that it’s rather ‘in your face’ to use every public appearance to turn a profit,” she started by telling the outlet. “I think it might be prudent for her to choose the occasions when she puts up links to her clothes on the new app,” because things like charity events or meeting terror attack victims at Bondi Beach are “not the right place for it,” as she said in her own words.

Especially since, the faux royal tour, as its called included many such charity focused vs personal events that could have featured. Even Ms Bond says, “there are lots of events she attends as a celebrity when I can’t see any harm in encouraging people to buy the clothes if they like them – and allowing her to collect a commission.”

After all “she’s a working woman now, and not a working royal. Obviously, she couldn’t have joined up with an app like this when she was on official duty for the royal family. And I think she found those sorts of restrictions very hard to deal with.”

Before concluding she also said, “[Meghan] was, and is, an independent career woman who found it difficult to have her wings clipped. And I get that. But things are different now, and she is free to do as she pleases. It might, however, be better if she stopped exploiting the title and just used her own name. That would make her new status, and the freedom that comes with it, absolutely clear.”