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All the California preening leaves you royally exhausted

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March 05, 2025

Katie Rosseinsky needs a lie down after viewing the Duchess of Sussex’s first solo Netflix venture, With Love, Meghan’

- Katie Rosseinsky

All the California preening leaves you royally exhausted

You knock on the door of Meghan Markle’s Montecito mansion. Or perhaps it’s the stand-in house rented for filming her Netflix show With Love, Meghan? You were summoned here with a note written in immaculate calligraphy, attached to a wicker harvest basket” teeming with fresh fruit and vegetables. Once you’re inside, your host, impeccably dressed all in white despite having spent the morning picking berries, corrals you into assisting her in an endless series of crafty and culinary tasks that are one part Pinterest, one part posh Blue Peter.

If popping round to the Sussex household in California is even half as exhausting as it appears to be on With Love, Meghan, the much-vaunted “lifestyle” show presented by the duchess in her first solo venture for Netflix, then surely all her visitors need to take a nap every few hours. And if they do retire to the guest room for a lie down after their shift, they’ll be greeted with a tray of treats beside the bed. Meghan loves to create “good morning and goodnight moments” for her pals, she tells us in the first instalments; they can expect to open their bleary eyes to giftwrapped snacks and cut flowers.

imageWith Love feels like a millennial blog come to life; it’s the TV version of

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