Meghan Markle’s Flamingo Estate

Meghan Markle
These days, fronting a brand is the celebrity passive income stream of choice, and anyone with some measure of fame or a following thinks they have permission to start a multicategory product empire. Photo: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press/Getty Images
Rachel Strugatz
March 20, 2024

Flamingo Estate, the decadent lifestyle accouterments company inspired by the fabulous Spanish-style L.A. home of Richard Christiansen and his partner, Aaron Harvey, has become the status symbol du jour for a certain kind of post-Goop, California in-crowd. You know, the sort of milieu where unironic, limited-edition raw honey collaborations with Julianne Moore, Will Ferrell, and LeBron James cost $250 a jar. And people regularly guffaw over $42 bars of soap or $80 dried strawberries. It’s a world where Glossier founder Emily Weiss throws her baby shower. And no one—no one—is more associated with this fever dream than Meghan Markle, whom I heard used the lifestyle company as “inspiration” for her new brand, America Riviera Orchard.