Meghan’s £112 chocolates are only the start – why advent calendars have lost the plot

The trouble with Meghan Markle’s new advent calendar is not so much that it costs £112. It’s that it involves maths.

There are 24 chocolates inside the Duchess of Sussex’s first As Ever calendar, made with Los Angeles chocolatier Compartés and “thoughtfully inspired” by the garden of her Montecito home – rather than her new Cotswolds digs. Flavours include strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and orange marmalade, with another finished in Meghan’s flower sprinkles. Each comes numbered in her own handwriting, painted on in edible gold lustre. The price works out at £4.67 a chocolate.