Those most often nourished by Meghan Markle — sorry, she goes by “Sussex” now — are the media, who feast upon her failures with relish. Her latest project, With Love, Meghan, has, like those before it, been widely ridiculed, though criticism has been somewhat less cruel than usual. There is a sense of it being a little too easy, a little too much, like shooting fish in a barrel. Not that there has been a complete ceasefire: “will this series fly? For laughs perhaps,” pondered the Standard’s Melanie McDonagh.
The Duchess’s show is something like a lifestyle magazine come to life: it is a guide to hosting the Montecito way. It is a show of brown labels and glass jars, of fruit displayed in a rainbow and lavender on the towels. Is it inane and insufferably twee (at one point she says “goodnight, sweetheart” as she puts a cake in the oven)? Of course. But it appears the public are viewing it with a less cynical eye, and some may be taking Meghan’s advice to heart.
