With Love, Meghan, a previously canceled Netflix series from Meghan Markle, has been cancelled, and in this article, we look at some of the highlights of the second season.
Meghan Markle’s panned lifestyle show has returned to Netflix for a second season – and it looks set to get tongues wagging all over again.
The second series of With Love, Meghan, has dropped on the streaming platform this morning and follows on from the first season, which sees Meghan share cooking, crafting, and hosting tips with a range of pals and experts.
Among the celebrity guests this time are US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye star Tan France, as well as podcaster Jay Shetty and his cookbook author wife Radhi Devlukia. While chefs joining Meghan include Clare Smyth, who runs Core, a three-Michelin star restaurant in London, and Jose Andres, who set up the World Central Kitchen.
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The show comes on the back of Meghan and Prince Harry announcing a new watered-down deal with the streaming giant, in contrast to their reported 100 million dollar (£74million) contract five years ago.
And as fans prepare to delve deeper into the details of the series, we take a look at the new episodes, which include a lone A-list singer’s performance, a crude joke about Meghan’s former TV show, and more insight into her private life…
Prince Harry mystery
Prince Harry made a fleeting appearance in the final episode of the first season of With Love, Meghan, despite the fact that it is Meghan’s show.
In the final ten minutes, he appears at a garden brunch that Meghan throws together for her family, including her mother Doria, and friends. She introduces Harry to the camera at the brunch party, and he awkwardly waves.
He does not appear in any of the episodes that have just started running. In fact, the only glimpses of him are in photos, such as one that shows him and Meghan with Clare Smyth, who appears in the sixth episode of the latest series.
But Meghan does talk about Harry in the show, telling Queer Eye star Tan France how the Duke of Sussex first told her he loved her on their third date in Botswana, with him being the first to say it.
Meghan shows the camera a navy baseball cap with the slogan “PH 40” on it in the seventh episode as part of a trip she says was made for Harry and his friends for his 40th birthday.
A-lister surprise
Despite Harry not making a camera appearance, two other very well-known husbands make two cameo appearances.
Chrissy Teigen is invited over to make crackers and flower jewelry in the second episode. They reveal they first got to know each other when they both worked as briefcase girls on the US version of the show Deal or No Deal.
And as Chrissy shows up at Meghan’s rented farmhouse, her husband, three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter John Legend, makes an appearance. “I would have told H to come,” she tells him.
The All of Me hitmaker also makes another appearance at the end of the episode to try cheesy crackers the two women have made with Meghan telling him: “Thanks for being so patient”.
gaffe on birthday
In the same episode, Meghan and Chrissy press flowers from the garden to create jewelry, specifically those that correspond to the birth months of their children.
But Chrissy admits she would have to look up her children’s birthdays and shows Meghan her tattoo of her kids ‘ date of births on her arm, as she doesn’t remember. Even so, she stumbles on Miles’ birthday, unsure whether it was May 16 or May 18.
Thankfully, husband John, who is not on camera, can be heard assisting and letting her know that their oldest son was born on May 16, 2018. Meghan jokes: “You’ve got a husband and a tattoo to make you stay on top of all the things”.
Flower sprinkles jibe
In the third episode of the third season, Queer Eye star Tan France joins Meghan and the pair to make French toast and create small aprons for their children to cook with.
After making some French toast, Meghan adds her signature flower sprinkles and icing sugar to the plate to complete the look.
Tan asks her, “What did you just add?” as she adds the sprinkles. To which Meghan replies: “Flower sprinkles, I love them”. Before the pair giggle and Meghan says, “But I really like things looking beautiful,” Tan teases her and says, “Wow, that’s the gayest s*** I’ve seen in a long time.”
Admission for children
In the third epsiode, Meghan also reveals how spending nearly three weeks away from her children left her “not well”.
She declined to provide further details about the dates, but there is now speculation that she was talking about when the Sussexes unavoidably remained in the UK following Queen Elizabeth II’s 2022 passing.
Meghan reveals what she misses most about the UK, admits she dislikes baking, and describes how she made a “truly terrible” roast chicken the day Harry asked her to marry him.
The former Suits star was sympathising with Queer Eye star Tan France who explained he gets heartbroken if away from his two young children for more than a couple of days.
Meghan nods and looks up at the ceiling in response, “Oh I know. The longest I went without being around our kids was almost three weeks”. Before stopping, she says, “I was…not well.”
In his memoir Spare of the “difficult days” following the Queen’s death, the duke described how, for “longer than we’d ever been,” he and Meghan were separated from Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet as well as their reunification in California, where they “couldn’t stop hugging the children and couldn’t let them leave our sight.”
The King and the royal family were mourning the loss of Elizabeth II, the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, in September 2022, against the backdrop of a troubled relationship with Harry and Meghan.
Harry said later in an ITV interview that there was a “really horrible reaction from my family members” when the Queen died, with “the briefings and the leakings and the planting”.
Suits dig
Meanwhile, another playful dig comes in episode seven, when Meghan and her friend Heather Dorak go on a girls ‘ trip to Malibu, in an episode dedicated to those who fought the California wildfires at the beginning of the year.
They are given a 50/50 martini by mixology expert Payman Bahmani-Bailey, who also serves them a cocktail making lesson.
As he mixes the vermouth and gin, Meghan asks him how he got into mixology. Meghan asks, “Did you watch Suits?,” and he replies, “I used to be a lawyer in New York.”
However, he laughs and says, “No, no, I don’t watch basic cable,” and then replies, “I like shows with curse words.”
Archie and Lilibet wish
Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, their children, are not included in the series, either.
But in the second episode, Meghan reveals the one thing her children wished they could have at home. As she talks to Chrissy Teigen, who tells Meghan they have both dogs and cats at home, the Duchess of Sussex says her children wish they had a cat.
In the first episode of the season, Meghan reveals that two unusual “silie” chickens, called Jill and Phil, are among her home chickens as she prepares eggs with chefs Christina Tosi and David Chang, as well as make-up artist pal Daniel Martin. The fluffy plumage of this type of chicken is renowned.
UK life
Meghan does mention her time as a working royal on several occasions, though never specifically.
They discuss the variations in the names of various herbs in the UK and the US with chef Clare Smyth, who practices in London.
And when she chats to Tan France, who originally hails from Doncaster, Meghan reveals what she misses most about UK life – UK radio stations.
She says, “To be honest, what I miss most about the UK, the radio stations, and Magic” And Tan says: “Magic Fm? Wow . Sorry to say this so openly, but “that’s a grandma station!” And Meghan says: “I’ll be that grandma”!
Source: Mirror
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