With Love, Meghan

[Atlasvue]

Just setting up a thread for the release of the new cooking show, 15th January 2025

Reviews so far of the trailer, some very funny:

https://amp.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/jan/03/meghan-markle-netflix-show- Lefty paper not impressed. Trad wife.

https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/foodanddrink/cook-meghan-markle-with-love-netflix-b1202861.html - Great read. Very very funny

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1995903/meghan-markle-netflix-series-cooking- Domestic bliss doesn’t sit with years of grievances.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/01/03/with-love-meghan-netflix-trailer-cringe-moments/ - Great read. Very very funny

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/with-love-meghan-markle-netflix-barefoot-contessa-martha-stewart-b1202748.html - Meghan fan who has their doubts about a dated tv format.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14248119/amp/Now-Meghan-trad-wife-feminist-Duchess-rebranded-housewife-influencer-new-Netflix-cookery-vision-domestic-bliss.html - Feminist to Trad wife.

Will update with anymore reviews

Meg's got greedy, decided along with the title she wanted a fortune (probably realised she had very little in reality and no control over things) so wanted half in Half out ... ie making money off the titles which isn't allowable my HMQE2 and off they flounced.

Meghan probably thought she was set for life if she married into that uber wealthy family even if the marriage didn't work out. She was on the global stage via the family and determined to use her ambition to maximize the potential for her.

Then she learnt how the family really works. All the wealth and properties pass monarch to monarch so they would always be dependent on the Queen, then Charles, the William and eventually maybe George for income and housing. Her kids would never be given wealth like George will be as a future monarch.

You have to keep your nose clean and stay in favour to keep getting the money from the monarch of the day (don't you Andrew?). And part of staying in favour involves opening hospitals in Crewe, staying largely silent and never ever outshining your BIL and SIL who will ascend to be King and Queen while your profile descends to being a dependable sidekick.

If she understood all that when they were just dating I am not sure she would have married Harry. She might have reined her feelings in and used him as a way to raise her profile. Or maybe she fell hopelessly in love. 'Whatever love is'

You have to keep your nose clean and stay in favour to keep getting the money from the monarch of the day (don't you Andrew?). And part of staying in favour involves opening hospitals in Crewe, staying largely silent and never ever outshining your BIL and SIL who will ascend to be King and Queen while your profile descends to being a dependable sidekick.

If she understood all that when they were just dating I am not sure she would have married Harry. She might have reined her feelings in and used him as a way to raise her profile. Or maybe she fell hopelessly in love. 'Whatever love is'

You also get to have a luxury home free or for a peppercorn rent. You get to have talented staff working for you alone, without paying them a penny. You get to have a workload which consists of maybe a few half days a week at most. You get to be patron of prestigious organisations such as the National Theatre. You get to do tours abroad and hang out with world leaders. You get people bowing to you and calling you Your Royal Highness. All told, you get to enjoy a life of prestige, status and comfort in exchange for putting up with some restrictions and understanding you'll never be number one. And all this, without the lifetime responsibilities and constrictions of being the monarch or heir.

That doesn't sound too shabby for me. In what way is Meghan's life so superior now? How would her life have been better if she had never married Harry?

What Harry and Meghan seem to crave is recognition. And global recognition at that.

But for what? Looking attractive? Being wealthy? Uxoriousness? Being celebrity former HRHs? That's not how it rolls in the real world. Even dingbat celebs have to have some sort of talent as well as serious credentials working with people. There's only so much that paid PR can cover up.

I think she just had dollar signs, Hollywood stars in her eyes, and thoughts of being on a world platform as a leader - she didn't like being told no though, and her potential future (above crappy actress roles she was capable of getting) all went out of her control, and clearly after 5 years of try and failure to achieve anything, it's unlikely she'll get anywhere down that road (incapable, as well as unfeasible, far too self absorbed to be a leader - and not seen as an achiever. she's got to understand that's likely why Hazza wasn't scouped up before.... because it's a crappy 'job' to be a spares wife if you're selfish, royals need to be selfless - or at least appear to be!

I’m interested to know where they will be in ten years time when H is 50 and she is older. She wouldn’t be able to play the ingenue any longer. He will have lost what remains of any looks he once had. Charles will most likely be dead . Their kids will be teenagers. No one will give a shit about their titles.
George and Charlotte will be public figures and young adults.
What will it look like?

Well, as they have now apparently opened up their home to "friends and loved ones" I wonder who the first residents will be. I understand Harrison Ford had to evacuate and Anthony Hopkins place burned down. I wonder if they are sufficiently A list to be regarded as "friends and loved ones"?

Sorry. The LA fires are utterly appalling for so many people and I hold to my old grandmother's maxim" A little help is worth a lot of pity". If there is real evidence that they shelve the "Duke and Duchess Blabla" and do some good stuff, happy to be wrong.

You also get to have a luxury home free or for a peppercorn rent. You get to have talented staff working for you alone, without paying them a penny. You get to have a workload which consists of maybe a few half days a week at most. You get to be patron of prestigious organisations such as the National Theatre. You get to do tours abroad and hang out with world leaders. You get people bowing to you and calling you Your Royal Highness. All told, you get to enjoy a life of prestige, status and comfort in exchange for putting up with some restrictions and understanding you'll never be number one. And all this, without the lifetime responsibilities and constrictions of being the monarch or heir.

You do also need to put in the work. It's not just putting on a posh frock, turning up and smiling for the cameras.

Camilla, Anne, Sophie and Catherine are serious, even passionate, about their causes. They do their homework and can speak on their subjects with knowledge. They, especially Anne and Sophie, have undertaken some quite gruelling overseas visits. And above all, they know it's never about them.

I’m interested to know where they will be in ten years time when H is 50 and she is older.

If they'd stayed as working royals, in ten years Meghan would have established herself in whatever area of interest she chose to take on, and with hard work and commitment, could be on her way to being as respected as Sophie now is.

As it is, I think they'll increasingly decline into obscurity. With no track record of achievement behind her, M is already on the cusp of being too old for Hollywood style success. If she'd chosen something five years ago, started small and plugged away at it, she might possibly now be seeing results. But she's jumped from one thing to another, none of it with any real expertise behind it.

I suppose when the King dies (which I hope won't be for a long time yet) H will inherit enough to allow them to retire into private life, just doing some well-judged charity work, instead of what looks like increasingly deperate flailing around trying to make a big impact with small scale projects.

I suspect Harrison Ford will be at his ranch

I read this morning by that it burnt down.

I understand the Kardashian's have just had to evacuate their properties as fires are now spreading that way!!

Plenty room at Casa Sussex for them!

Yes, I would have thought so.

How awkward is it going to be launching a California-based luxury lifestyle show when there are so many people who have lost everything but the clothes they fled their homes in and there is so much ongoing devastation? Surely the launch has to be delayed, otherwise it will look like Meghan and her fawning celebrity pals are so tone-deaf they think that what Californians need right now is advice on how to fold napkins and put frilly lids on jam jars.

Good point. Meghan can’t get a break, can she?

She’s made her own luck.

You can't say that the California Fires are bad luck of her making though.

I hope you would have presented some Venn diagrams. I love a Venn diagram.

People who believe in the concept of karma may have a different take on it. To clarify, not that those impacted by the fires deserved it, but that it put a spoke in the wheels of Meghan's plans.

@Mylazycatspyjamas - Harrison ford has a primary home which is a large ranch in Wyoming, but does also have a Californian home which assuming is the one destroyed. He's has the ranch for donkeys years, Star Wars times

Don't be daft, she's just using the current disaster to get herself some much needed 'good PR' except everyone with any sense sees her for the grifter and grief hoover to do fake sad faces and fake hugs to get some kudos - she's so fake

I hadn’t realised she was connected with Pasadena

Anyone know what that connection is?
(Im assuming no one is so crass as to just turn up to be seen)

You do have to wonder if they are the ultimate rubberneckers, Uvalde, Pasadena, probably more.

TMZ got the 'Exclusive' on Pasadena apparently. . They did help out at one of the food centers,, reports say they were there for 45mins with their bodyguards. They can prevent and shut down videos, photos being released when they want to, so why are they allowing videos of them getting a tour of a burnt out neighbourhood and helping at a food center.

Meghan actually hasn’t lost anything. But your comments even bringing up the word ‘karma’ when people have lost their entire homes and everything in them is in pretty bad taste. How do people lose all humanity just because Meghan’s name is mentioned?

You can see in the video on the BBC that M went in for a full body hug when a women was still talking and she didn't reciprocate, she tried to keep talking while M held her eyes closed.

She seems to view her 'hugs' as evidence and perfromance of her compassion. She doesn't seem to judge others needs or comfort, just here is my perfromance moment.

H seems better at this type of thing. He's listening, puts a hand on a shouder even laughs a little bit at an obviously appropriate moment. Natuarally resposnding to people.

This type of thing though oks like another Fake Royal moment. With M thinking: We must Go. And Be With The People.

No M you are the people. Watch it on the TV, look after your mum and donate some money.
Your hugs won't save the world.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/clyewx419k3o

I have a friend a bit like this who 'believes in the power of hugs' and always wants to hold you tight squeezing you with closed eyes.
Who thinks hugs are always 'needed'.

It annoys me because I often don't want or need a hug, it doesn't help, but I have to go along with the performance and pretend it did to please her.

So the moment which was about me has now beceome about her and the perfromance of the hugs.

I think M is the same.