Update 2/24: Over the weekend, Jessica Mulroney spoke out about reports that she had registered a charity for Meghan and wrote: "If certain investigative journalists would do their jobs, they would probably learn that the Shoebox Project Foundation is owned by Mr. Roy of North Carolina and and has nothing to do with our charity, the Shoebox Project. Happy Sunday."

The Daily Mail report claimed that Mulroney registered domain names like sussexglobalcharities.com using the Shoebox Project Foundation rather than his own nonprofit organization, Shoebox Project He was.

Original article The Sussexes (opens in new tab) wasted no time at all in moving to Plan B regarding their post-Royal Life global brand. Some background: this week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (open in new tab) made it clear that they will not use the word "royal" in their personal brands after the royal abdication. The decision to remove "royal" from the couple's established "Sussex Royal" brand (opens in new tab) is reportedly the result of pressure from the Queen, and Harry and Meghan, in a newly released statement on their Spring 2020 transition plans, made it quite made it clear (opens in new tab).

On Saturday, the Daily Mail (opens in new tab) reported that Meghan's longtime best friend, stylist, host, and entrepreneur Jessica Mulroney (opens in new tab), through her charity, the Shoe Box Project Foundation, which helps vulnerable women, has created the website sussexglobalcharities.com, and reported that she has registered the website.

Although we, the public, only learned of the end of "Sussex Royal" (opens in new tab) on Friday, it is clear that Harry and Meghan have known (or at least suspected) for at least a few days that the topic had landed.

This is not the first time the Sussexes have used friends (opens in new tab) to secretly register websites they know they might want to use in the future. According to the Daily Mail, Meghan's US-based business manager, Andrew Meyer, registered two websites - archefoundation.com and archefoundation.org - on October 23, 2018. For those doing the math at home, this is just eight days after Meghan revealed (open in new tab) that she is pregnant with the couple's first child. This also suggests that Harry and Meghan had already decided on a name for the baby (opens in new tab) and maybe even had a clue as to the sex of the baby born at that time.

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