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When Meghan Markle announced the death of her beloved rescue Beagle Guy on Tuesday, she was inundated by people passing on their condolences.

The Duchess of Sussex adopted Guy in 2015 after he was found abandoned deep in the woods in Kentucky without food or water. He was her buddy as she travelled the world.

In a heartbreaking post on Instagram, the 43-year-old uploaded a touching video montage of his life while also writing a tribute where she admitted crying ‘too many tears to count’.

But one aspect of the post has raised eyebrows after it appeared she used the moment to advertise her upcoming cookery show, which has featured Guy in the trailer.

She wrote: ‘Because many of you will now see Guy in this new series, I hope you’ll come to understand why I am so devastated by his loss. I think you may fall a little bit in love too.’

Discussing the development on Mail+’s YouTube show Palace Confidential, The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor Rebecca English said: ‘I thought it was quite noteworthy that she used it as a plug for the show, which, I’ll be honest, made me feel personally a little bit uncomfortable.

‘I am just not sure if that was a wise thing to do.’

Rebecca also compared Meghan’s tribute to Guy on social media to a similar post Princess Katherine and Prince William chose to make when their dog Lupo died.

And I think people understood that, but maybe that is a very British way of doing things.’

The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden said: ‘I think it was clearly going to be awkward. If the programme starts next week and the dog features in the programme but he is actually dead…

‘She felt she had to tell people before about what had happened.’

Rebecca replied: ‘Maybe. Or you could add at the end of the show, “In loving memory of Guy” as you often see things like that.’

The comments were made on the first 2025 episode of Palace Confidential, which is hosted by Joe Elvin and features fresh insights and discussion on the biggest royal news of the week.

Elsewhere in the show, chat turned to what viewers can expect from Meghan’s cookery show, ‘With Love, Meghan’, which will be dropped on January 15.

In the lead up to the announcement, Meghan returned to Instagram.

But there was an apparent blunder in the promotional post, with The Mail on Sunday’s Royal Correspondent Natasha Livingstone telling the Palace Confidential panel how Meghan’s barefooted video of her casually writing 2025 in the sand in a ‘seemingly spontaneous way’ was not all it seemed.

She said: ‘Some eagle-eyed viewers noticed that on the route for her to do this there were earlier drafts in the sand that hadn’t worked out very well, suggesting that it wasn’t quite the random spontaneous happy act’.