After months of speculation, Meghan Markle’s eagerly-awaited cookery show finally hits screens in just a matter of days.
The show, called With Love, Meghan, is set to drop on Netflix on Wednesday and will see the Duchess of Sussex invite friends and famous guests to a California estate, where she shares cooking, gardening and hosting tips. A teaser of the eight-part series has already been released and includes a clip of Meghan being hugged by husband Prince Harry.
Harry and Meghan signed a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix almost five years ago to create shows for the streaming service, with their biggest hit so far being their controversial docuseries, Harry & Meghan.
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Meghan Markle in her new Netflix show With Love, Meghan
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Since then, they have released several other documentaries, including one about Harry’s Invictus Games for wounded service personnel and another about the sport of polo. Ahead of the release of With Love, Meghan next week, Netflix has tagged the show as ‘reality TV’.
It is the first time one of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix offerings has been put into the reality TV category. It is also in the relaxing, feel-good, lifestyle, well-being, home & garden genres. However, it seems this goes against something the Sussexes claimed they would not do almost five years ago. Back in 2020, after reports they would film a reality TV show for Netflix, their spokesperson at the time bluntly said: “The Duke and Duchess are not taking part in any reality shows.”
This was in relation to the bombshell series, Harry & Meghan, which was later billed by Netflix as a docuseries under the categories biographical documentaries, social & cultural docs and US TV programmes.
Harry and Meghan’s previous controversial Netflix series
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The announcement of Meghan’s show came after she dramatically returned to Instagram on New Year’s Day. A promotional synopsis of the With Love, Meghan, says: “This inspiring series, produced by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, reimagines the genre of lifestyle programming, blending practical how-tos and candid conversation with friends, new and old.
“Meghan shares personal tips and tricks, embracing playfulness over perfection and highlights how easy it can be to create beauty, even in the unexpected.She and her guests roll up their sleeves in the kitchen, the garden, and beyond, and invite you to do the same.”
Actresses Mindy Kaling and former Suits star Abigail Spencer, plus chefs Roy Choi and Alice Waters are among the guests who appear on the 33-minute shows. Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Productions helped to make the series and she also gets a credit as one of its executive producers.
Harry and Meghan are also executive producers of Polo which aired in December. The documentary was the Sussexes’ first since Heart Of Invictus, which aired some 16 months earlier and followed a group of service members on their road to the Invictus Games, the Paralympic-style sporting competition set up by Harry in 2014 for injured and sick military personnel and veterans.
It followed Live To Lead, about leaders who have dedicated themselves to social justice, in 2022, and before that, the couple’s controversial six-part Harry & Meghan documentary.
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