Alert – Meghan Markle’s series With Love slammed as ‘cure for insomniacs’ by Netflix viewers – live updates

Here’s a selection of our latest articles about the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan:

• Meghan insists her surname is now 'Sussex' as she corrects her friend
• Meghan Markle ends her Netflix cookery show with apparent jab at the Royal Family
• Viewers highlight similarities between Meghan's recipes and scenes to other shows
• Meghan Markle's mother Doria Ragland makes rare (and brief) appearance at Duchess's brunch
• Meghan Markle reveals bizarre method of making pasta dish – and refers to spaghetti as 'noodles'
• Meghan Markle fans show her their 'As Ever' TATTOOS
• Prince Harry appears for mere minutes in Meghan Markle's Netflix series With Love, Meghan
• Meghan Markle reveals Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet 'take their gardening very seriously'
• Inside Meghan Markle's £5m rented reality TV mansion

Viewers of With Love, Meghan have reacted to the Duchess’ new Netflix series, with some saying it put them to sleep.

Those who watched the show took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to speak about their thoughts.

One wrote: ‘Calling all insomniacs desperate for a cure. With Love, Meghan is on Netflix now! Deep sleep guaranteed within five minutes.’

Another penned: ‘Watching Netflix and Meghan. oh my god, oh my god, oh my god is used like punctuation and some.’

A third penned: ‘She’s so fake. Not her house. Not her recipes. Not ideas. Pamela launched her trailer in 2023. Just happens to be identical as Meghan’s launch in 2025.’

However, others seemed to be enjoying the series, with one writing: ‘With love, Meghan. Love it. Reminds me of those shows on BBC Lifestyle.’

Another said: ‘With Love, Meghan is a breathe of fresh air and it’s not just about food, beautiful food, but it’s more about sharing stories and making memories while preparing that beautiful food. Definitely a good watch.’

Meghan has revealed one of Prince Harry’s favourite dishes on her new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan.

She was seen in episode three making fried chicken with her new friend, chef Roy Choi as he teaches her how to make the batter.

The Duchess told Roy: ‘Have I fried chicken before solo? Never. My grandma, my mum’s mum used to fry chicken. But I love it and my husband loves fried chicken too. So maybe we’re going to start making some more of this.

‘I feel as though if you’re making it at home, you’re going to want to make it with friends or family.’

This is the awkward moment the Duchess of Sussex corrects her friend after she calls her ‘Meghan Markle’.

The Office star Mindy Kaling appeared in her new Netflix series in episode two, where she shows how to host a children’s party.

The Duchess of Sussex called herself a ‘latchkey kid’ who ‘grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners’.

But Mindy seemed to get under Meghan’s skin with her response, as she said: ‘I don’t think anyone in the world knows that Meghan Markle has eaten Jack In The Box and loves it.’

Trying to hide her frown with a smile, she replied: ‘It’s so funny you keep saying Meghan Markle, you know I’m Sussex now.’

As Mindy looked confused, Meghan continued: ‘You have kids and you go “No, I share my name with my children”. I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me but it just means so much to go “This is OUR family name. Our little family name”.

After being corrected, Mindy awkwardly responded: ‘Well, now I know and I love it.’

A Guardian journalist has commented on Meghan’s new series and tells the Sussexes to ‘wave their $100m deal Netflix deal goodbye’.

Stuart Heritage, who writes predominately about film, TV and music, said With Love, Meghan may be the ‘final thing she makes for Netflix’.

He wrote: ‘The problem is that nobody wants to see Meghan making decorative ladybird crostini with Mindy Kaling.

‘With Love, Meghan is the sort of gormless lifestyle filler that, had it been made by the BBC, would be used to bulk out episodes of Saturday Kitchen.

‘There is a version of Meghan that people want to see on screen. But it isn’t the joylessly joy-filled rictus version of With Love, Meghan. No, they want to see the furious, righteous Meghan from Harry & Meghan. In other words, what they want is a proper Meghan reality show.’

Meghan revealed in her show that her children ‘take their gardening very seriously’, and that they each have their own tools.

During the show, Meghan said Archie and Lilibet have their own mini gardening tools, despite both being under the age of six.

‘Our kids have real sets, they take their gardening very seriously,’ she said in the second episode.

‘We have them every day because I think that’s how our kids love eating vegetables, you make it present beautifully with your eyes first,’ she said.

The former actress said that she also made her infamous jam with her three-year-old daughter.

‘Lili and I actually made this batch together,’ she said in their fifth episode of the show, as she scooped strawberry preserve into cups.

‘She picked these with me, she is like no mamma I will stir it .. but she is proud.. that part feels good’.

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The Duchess of Sussex also revealed her unconventional way of cooking a pasta dish, which may leave some Italians baffled.

Ten minutes into the first episode of ‘With Love, Meghan’, sees her tackling a dish called ‘skillet spaghetti’, which she tells viewers she regularly cooks for Prince Harry and her children.

Meghan reveals to her friend, make-up artist Daniel Martin, how the US twist on the Italian staple is a favourite with Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.

Traditional Italian methods might see the pasta submerged in a large pan of salted boiling water, but here, the Duchess simply pours ‘three cups’ of boiling water onto the spaghetti and then puts a lid on.

The Duchess also calls the popular Italian pasta ‘noodles’ at one point.

Meghan said: ‘When I make this, I make it for my family’ before clarifying ‘not that my children are eating heaps of noodles but I will make enough so that I can put leftovers in their lunchbox.’

Referring to her old lifestyle blog, The Tig, she added: ‘This skillet spaghetti would have been on there’.

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In her new Netflix series, the Duchess also addressed the mystery of the jam jars she sent out to some of her closest friends last year.

Mindy Kaling, 45, was one of the recipients of Meghan’s homemade strawberry jam when it was then called American Riviera Orchard. Last month, Meghan announced on Instagram that her brand had been renamed to As Ever.

‘When I received that in the mail, a box of your preserves, it was probably one of the most glamourous moments of my life,’ Mindy gushed.

However, the TV actress was thrown by the labelling on it that said ’50’ because ‘I’m a very hierarchical person’.

‘Does having a lower number make me more special? Does having…’ she trailed off before Meghan replied: ‘I did not think about it. It was not a ranking.’

‘It was just let me share them and then, people started to take it very personally,’ she continued.

‘Anyone who got one of those 50 jars that I was making on my stove, in my actual kitchen, at my house, I hope they all felt like “No, I want to share this with you”,’ the mother-of-two said.

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Good Morning Britain appeared to poke fun at the mixed fruit ‘rainbow platter’ which featured in Meghan’s new Netflix show.

The Duchess said it’s a ‘real delight and luxury’ to be a ‘present parent’ as she made a rainbow-themed fruit salad.

In the clip, she was filmed putting together colourful pieces of fruit on a large board as well as a smaller version in a bowl.

Good Morning Britain then appeared to mock the Duchess with their own version of the platter. Richard Arnold showed off his ‘rainbow platter’ complete with an unpeeled banana, sprinkles of cornflakes and browning apple chunks.

After showing a clip of Meghan’s documentary to viewers, the camera then cut to Richard laughing as he joked: ‘Here’s one we made earlier’ as he gestured to a chopping board filled with cubed apples, grapes and prunes.

He then added: ‘Sprinkled with cornflakes, tomatoes, I would advise – ‘ at which point Susana Reid jumped in shock and questioned whether the fruit display did indeed include tomatoes.

As he showed off his finished plate of fruit complete with sprinkles, he said to the camera: And there you have it, from Dickie, With Love.’

Susanna then jumped in and said: ‘In the old days it used to be called a fruit salad’.

Good Morning Britain appeared to mock the Duchess with their own version of the platter

Meghan Markle's colourful fruit salad which featured on the show

Richard's fruit salad that he made on Good Morning Britain today

The Duchess’ beloved late pet is seen in her new series, With Love, Meghan.

She revealed that her rescue dog Guy, who she adopted in 2015, had passed away in January this year.

In the show, the pup is seen relaxing in his dog bed inside Meghan’s Netflix studio kitchen, which is close to where she and Harry live.

The former royal said: ‘I would do anything for Guy and he knows it. He can have whatever he wants because he is whatever kind of Guy you need him to be, depending on the day.

‘Guy is just always there, he’s my shadow and he’s going to be for a very, very long time. Guy has been with me since I lived in Toronto.

‘He was found in the woods in Kentucky and he’s since moved with me to the UK, back to Canada, to California. Guy has a lot of stories to tell.’

Meghan also revealed that Harry puts salt on ‘all of his dishes,’ adding that she likes to ‘under-salt’ the food she cooks because of this.

She was cooking up some frittata, an Italian egg-based dish similar to an omelette, alongside her close friend actress and comedian Mindy Kaling.

Mindy – who was interviewed on the Duchess’ now-defunct podcast Archetypes in 2022 – asked for her secret to a perfect egg dish.

She said: ‘Here’s my thing with making egg dishes, you can’t taste it to tell if it’s too salty until after it is cooked.

‘I never know how to season it so it comes out too salty or not salty enough. How did you season this so perfectly?’

Meghan responded: ‘I have a family and a husband who, no matter what meal is put in front of him, before he tastes it, puts salt on. So I try to under-salt.’

Mindy then joked: ‘I love knowing that your husband loves it salty,’ before the Duchess popped a bottle of bubbly for them to drink.

In episode seven, Meghan also spoke about ‘healing’ when she discussed Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, with her neighbour Vicky Tsai.

The Duchess told her: ‘You gave me this idea, I think it’s so meaningful, that if you break something that is precious and valuable, it’s not broken. That that fracture, and you taught me this, that that fracture actually makes it more beautiful, that break makes it more beautiful.

‘And I just think that it felt really symbolic of saying to anyone if you’ve been through something, you’re not broken. It can be fixed, it can be sealed and healed at the same time’.

Ms Tsai then says: ‘Or celebrated because it’s what makes you beautiful… perfect isn’t beautiful. Things that have lived and been dropped and put back together again are more beautiful.’

Meghan’s new Netflix also includes a hilarious moment when Prince Harry scares her while on a hike with her friend.

He is seen hiding behind a bush before yelling as the Duchess jumps before putting her head in her hands.

She was with her close pal Delfina Blaquier at the time and captioned the clip: ‘Hiking with Delphi and the boys’.

They met at polo matches as they would both watch their spouses, Prince Harry and Nacho Figueras, play together.

Meghan has revealed that she used to work in a doughnut shop when she was younger, adding that her kids would love to eat the sweet treats for breakfast every day.

She said in episode three of With Love, Meghan: ‘Donuts in general remind me of my childhood. I once had a job at a doughnut shop called Little Orbit Donuts.

‘They made tiny, tiny, little… not doughnut holes, tiny mini doughnuts, they would sell at craft venues. I helped.’

Responding to the film crew saying ‘Maybe add this to your surprise breakfast stuff with your kids’, Meghan replied: ‘My kids would love this for breakfast. What child wouldn’t love a doughnut for breakfast?’

Prince Harry made a short and sparse cameo in With Love, Meghan, which aired this morning in Britain.

The Duke of Sussex had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance in the final episode of the series – where his wife organised a brunch ‘with her community’ in the eighth and final episode.

Despite appearing in the trailer, the royal was only featured once in the lifestyle series.

The Duke is among a flurry of guests, including his mother-in-law Doria Ragland, at a sunny outdoor party hosted by Meghan.

Harry is seen holding a drink at Meghan's brunch 'with her community' in the eighth and final episode

Meghan seemingly made a subtle dig at the Royal Family at the end of her Netflix show.

She previously accused royal aides of preventing her from expressing her true self during her time in Britain.

The Duchess closed the last episode with a speech to guests including her husband Prince Harry, saying: ‘I just want to raise a glass to you guys. This feels like a new chapter that I’m so excited that I’m able to share and I’ve been able to learn from all of you.

‘So I just thank you for all the love and support. And here we go, there’s a business! All of that is part of that creativity that I’ve missed so much, so thank you for loving me so much and celebrating with me.’

Meghan – whose mother Doria Ragland was in attendance too – is also heard saying to Harry about the party she organised for the show: ‘It’s good, right?’ He says: ‘Well done. You did a great job.’ Meghan adds: ‘Thank you.’ And Harry then says: ‘I love it.’

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Meghan spoke about her joy in preparing guest rooms in her £11million Montecito home.

She said: ‘Whenever I have someone come and stay, one my favourite things to do is to prep the guest room. I think about the two places of the guest experience once they’ve gone into their room.

‘What’s at the side of the bed for them? That’s their good morning and goodnight moment. And what is in the bathroom for them so they can have a beautiful soak and a nice bath at the end of the night.’

Meghan then decided to make bath salts to give to her pal along with a small base of flowers which she called ‘bedside blooms’.

‘It’s just a sweet gesture, all these are letting someone know that you’re thinking of them,’ she added.

The eight-part series has been filmed inside a £5million mansion on a sprawling estate just two miles from the Duke and Duchess of Sussexes’ £11million Montecito home.

Inside, Meghan is filmed cooking, baking, cocktail making, flower arranging and party planning using its kitchen’s lavish £15,000 eight-hob Thermador oven.

Dangling elegantly from her wrist as she chops up fruit with a £134 knife is a luxurious £21,400 Cartier ‘tank Francaise’ gold watch and a £4,544 Cartier yellow gold bracelet.

Working on the hob of the Thermador oven, Meghan is seen preparing food in a top-of-the-range white Le Creuset pan, worth between £180 and £250.

The property features the centerpiece of the estate: a spacious kitchen with Caesartone countertops, estimated to cost about £200 to £550 per square metre.

Meghan also uses an array of state-of-art Le Creuset cookware, all in matching white. A single pot online retails for about £180-£250.

In this shot, a beaming Meghan is seen sporting a colourful Emilia Wickstead 'Sheila' boat print dress thought to be worth around £856

Here Meghan is seen chopping up peppers with a £134 Shun classic ‘Blonde 7’ knife while wearing an Anine Bing ‘Mika’ oversized shirt thought to be worth around £191

Meghan is seen cooking on a pricey £15,000 eight-hob Thermador oven, using a designer Le Creuset pan worth between £180 and £250. On her wrist is a £4,345 diamond bracelet

Netflix released the Duchess of Sussex’s new series at midnight PST and Meghan fans got together to watch it in New York City.

But they got a shock when the mother-of-two at Ludlow House, a Soho House club, where they were watching the opening episode in the exclusive venue.

The group had been following Meghan since the days of her now-defunct lifestyle blog The Tig and proudly showed off real tattoos that read ‘As ever’.

They also had special bottles of Tignanello wine, which inspired The Tig name, for the occasion.

To celebrate the launch, Meghan’s husband Prince Harry and their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet made her a handwritten card along with a bouquet.

It read: ‘Congratulations mumma! We love your show, and we love you!’ and was signed by ‘Lili, Archie [and] Papa.’

Hello and welcome to ‘s live coverage as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, releases her new series on Netflix which has been described as a make or break moment for the American royal.

Titled ‘Meghan, With Love’, the show will see the 43-year-old cook at home with friends, pick flowers and lift the lid on her home tips at her and Prince Harry’s luxurious mansion in Montecito.

The series is the fourth Netflix project released by the Sussexes following their successful debut Harry & Meghan which was then followed by relative duds Polo and Heart of Invictus.

Stick with us throughout the day as we bring you the latest updates and reaction to Meghan’s new series with reporters watching each episode as they drop at 8am on the streaming platform.