Harry and Meghan release slick video that shows Duchess hugging veterans and taking selfies to highlight the ‘impact’ of their Archewell foundation – hours after Kate’s film with George, Charlotte and Louis at a baby bank

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released a video showing Archewell’s 2023 ‘impact’ just hours after the Princess of Wales shared a clip of herself at a baby bank with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

The royal couple shared a one-minute clip showing people and causes their foundation has helped throughout 2023. They have shared similar videos in the past, but usually not until January.

This release, just hours after Kate was praised for the sweet footage of the Wales children at at Windsor baby bank, may now raise eyebrows in royal circles.

It comes as brand experts have warned of the demise of ‘Brand Sussex’ following the fallout from Omid Scobie‘s poison-penned book Endgame, which attacked the royal family and named Kate and King Charles as ‘racists’ who ‘expressed concern’ about Prince Archie‘s skintone before he was born.

 The Duchess of Sussex recently signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME) mega-agent Ari Emanuel whose clients include Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Serena Williams and other A-Listers – but WME is reportedly having second thoughts.

The new slick video included footage from Meghan’s visit to the Fisher House Foundation in Los Angeles, as well as the couple’s calls to entrepreneurs, visits to New York to speak at a mental health summit and trip to The Marcy Lab School in Brooklyn throughout 2023.

It also shows workers rebuilding a playground in Uvalde, Texas, following a massacre that killed 21 people – including 19 children – in 2022.

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Meghan Markle has appeared in a video for the Invictus Games highlighting the work Prince Harry ‘s foundation does to support military families

The Duchess of Sussex , 42, visited the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that provides homes for military families while their loved one is in hospital

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released a video showing Archewell’s 2023 ‘impact’

The clip shows Meghan at the Fisher House Foundation which provides homes for military families while their loved one is in hospital, the footage was first shown at the Invictus Games. 

Another clip from August showed Harry and Meghan calling young entrepreneurs, to tell them initiatives they run received a share of $2million in grants.

The video also shows Meghan speaking at a mental health summit in New York in October.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex hosted a panel discussion at the World Mental Health Day Festival in what marked their first-ever in-person event for their charity, the Archewell Foundation. 

It comes hours after the Princess of Wales shared a clip of herself with Prince George, Princes Louis and Princess Charlotte at a baby bank in Windsor.

The Wales children helped their mother and volunteers pick out donations and make boxes to go children in need for Christmas.

While sorting through piles of donated clothes, sensible George, 10, and Charlotte, eight folded up clothes like their mother Kate.

But unlike his older siblings Louis, five,  picked up and lobbed a T-shirt onto the neat pile.

Harry and Meghan speak to recipients of Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund grants

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are seen making the phone calls from their Montecito garden

The Wales children helped their mother and volunteers pick out donations and make boxes to go children in need for Christmas. From left: Louis, Kate, George and Charlotte

Prince Louis playfully lobbed some clothes on top of a pile of while helping sort through donations at a baby bank with his mother

Harry and Meghan also published a 25-page impact report alongside the video, with Meghan revealing she was inspired to do work from her time in the Firm.

While a working member of the royal family, Meghan supported the Hubb Community Kitchen for women following the Grenfell Tower fire.

‘As with the Hubb Community Kitchen, The Welcome Project uses the power of food to bring people together,’ the report states. 

It explains that the pair are ‘ committed to a simple but profound mission to show up and do good’.

‘Our work, especially this year, has been rooted in fostering community and remaining responsive to those in need amidst the evolving challenges we encounter in today’s world.’

It explains the foundation has helped to provide 3,176 hours of trauma-informed mental health support to those in the earthquakes of Turkey and Syria, while also helping more than 2,500 girls in Nigeria receive menstrual products and health education.

Other achievements include supporting recently resettled Afghan women.

The shiny video may be a slick attempt to put Meghan and Harry on the global stage again.

Meghan recently appeared on the red carpet at Variety’s ‘Power of Women’ gala where she teased ‘exciting’ new projects for her and Harry. She also sat with two of LA’s most powerful women, one working for the Oscars and another high up at Universal Studios.

But Mark Borkowski, one of Britain’s most experienced crisis managers, has said he believes that Omid Scobie‘s Endgame – and the royal race row it sparked – has ‘backfired spectacularly’ for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. He is also convinced that the farrago over the Dutch translation naming King Charles and Kate ‘was clearly a publicity stunt’, a claim Mr Scobie denies.

Mr Borkowski has said that Meghan’s Hollywood relaunch is ‘clearly not working’. He claims that her new talent agency WME may be considering dropping her after less than six months amid signs the ‘Hollywood machine’ has ‘probably had enough of them’.

He previously told MailOnline: ‘Something is beginning to unwind at the heart of Meghan and Harry. I think 2024 is going to be seismic, either because they’re going to do something to recover and find a new positive tactic or it’s going to be the undoing of the brand. It can only go one or two ways. It can’t stay where it is at the moment. Because it’s clearly not working’. 

He said the couple’s brand could be ‘finished’ in the next year because they are viewed so negatively, in part because of the dignified silence from the Royal Family in the face of ‘constant’ attacks by the Sussexes and their allies.

He said: ‘We’ve see countless appearances of Meghan on red carpets. The story of her being back in play in Hollywood is is all about Meghan trying to return to her own turf and being available for work and getting back to Hollywood.

‘But I would suggest they are getting perhaps conveniently left behind by the Hollywood machine, who have probably had enough of them and enough of the negativity.

‘They’re hinting their big plans ahead, but you know, we’ve heard that all before. So they have to deliver something now’.

On rumours WME might drop Meghan he said: ‘I suspect this is in fact true. It just shows that constant erosion of the institution is not working.’

Brand and culture expert Nick Ede told MailOnline that Endgame could be as dangerous for her career as Spare – her husband’s memoir – was for Prince Harry, claiming her representatives in LA will be worried she has ‘tarnished her reputation and could potentially damage the reputation of her agency’.

Mr Ede believes Meghan could soon become ‘too hot to handle’ after two members of Harry’s family were named as being at the centre of the race row allegations in a Dutch version of the book. He also claimed that the silence from the Sussexes since the book came out makes Meghan look ‘guilty by association’, despite vehement claims by Mr Scobie, who is an ally of the actress, and her friends that she had nothing to do with the book.

Mr Ede said: ‘The book written by Omid Scobie is potentially a career incendiary device for Meghan. Just as Harry’s own goal of a book has proved for him, the new book by Scobie unfortunately has fuelled a fire which many had thought would die down.

‘The issue for a huge Hollywood agent is that they will find it hard to navigate the career of Meghan fearing that more will come out over time and that, with court cases looming from her sister and potentially her father, she has tarnished her reputation and could potentially damage the reputation of her agency’.

The Duke was dressed smart casually with brown chinos and a white shirt, while his wife – who turns 42 this Friday – wore a