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

A friend has met KCIII several times over the past few years as her husband is in the military. She says he always remembers her, always showed concern when her DH was being deployed to somewhere dodgy and is genuinely a kind, caring person.

I hope William continues The Prince’s Trust and passes it onto George as his special project. The Prince’s Trust has given disadvantaged young people some great opportunities.

As a complete aside, I was watching a bit of The Prince’s Trust Awards one year which was hosted by Philip Schofield and Charles was in attendance on the stage. I knew Schofield’s days were numbered when he publicly drew attention to Charles blowing his nose and laughed at him.

Prince Philip had his number.

Nobody is just one thing.

It's possible that Harry can have a natural warmth and connection to people in some situations and scenarios, and also be an entitled angry self absorbed twat at other times.

In fact that would make sense given his parents both of whom have/ had all the above qualities strengths and faults.

It's also possible Meghan really does want to be compassionate and liked by the public but doesn't understand how to do this or why she gets it wrong.
I'm beginning to presume she lacks a fundamental self awareness or ability to understand others. Almost like she is masking but trying so hard.

I don't feel sorry for either of them though they have allowed their flaws full control and hurt others to serve themselves.

I do however think they are complex and human and not simply bad people.

Btw I bet she has been crying.
About her show launch.

Even in the middle of a crisis people still feel their own disappointment and this is devastating for her launch.

William and Charles are also complex characters.

Charles is empathetic but also prone to temper and melancholy.
William apparently also has a temper and can be stand offish.

But they both commit to their jobs and roles and understand their duty.

We'll accept flawed people if they do their job.

Yes I was surprised to see something on our hospital intranet - The Prince's Trust supported a new HCA with travel costs for the first month or two of work until they get paid and sort finances. I think it's part of their support for young people getting into work.

Yes, people are not either all evil or all angelic. We all have virtues and flaws, that’s what makes us human.

I think William and Harry are very similar personality wise. They both seem to have a quick temper and are very entitled. But I think both are compassionate, empathetic and warm individuals. Where they differ is that William is all about duty and service to the crown and country, whereas Harry is all about himself and his family.

I genuinely think Meghan means well and does want to do good in the world. I just think it doesn’t come naturally and so she comes across as unauthentic. She has very grand plans but isn’t good at bringing them
to fruition. She also seems to like the finer things in life (not a criticism, so do I) and enjoys playing the victim.

Even sainted Diana had her flaws. She courted attention and she also liked to play the victim. The Queen is seen as stoic and dutiful but sometimes she comes across as cold and she helped contribute to the Diana/Andrew/Harry problems by ignoring the elephants in the room and leaving it to others to sort out until it exploded.

I’m sure Catherine has her flaws too, I think she is just better at concealing them from the public. But then again some people would call her boring and lazy, so perhaps these are her flaws.

Human psychology is so interesting!

It's possible that Harry can have a natural warmth and connection to people in some situations and scenarios, and also be an entitled angry self absorbed twat at other times.

He did seem to do better before M came along eg his walking with wounded expedition to Antarctica. I think he's better on that sort of longer physical challenge type thing and he doesn't seem to have had the opportunity to do anything like that since marriage.

However as for inappropriate behaviour I can think of three occasions where he shows he's just not good at the job.

1. The hospital visit in Nigeria when he advised that poor man in the hospital bed to give his prosthesis a name. The guy looked singularly unimpressed and I don't blame him.

I follow an unfortunate woman on Instagram who developed sepsis at 28 weeks pregnant, had emergency LSCS, spent weeks in ICU life hanging by a thread and has ended up having all four limbs amputated. She's an incredible person, with great family support and a determination to make the best of her life and not feel sorry for herself. Imagine - should she give all four prosthetics a name? (I don't think she has leg ones, or not yet for certain reasons). I digress but I think he was deeply inappropriate there.

1. Manspreading his arms around that poor interpreter in Venezuela. She looked so uncomfortable, sitting on the edge of her seat to avoid touching. Classic rude and entitled behaviour.

1. Fly swatting in Australia. The woman he was talking to was a bit taken aback and then laughed. Meghan thought it was hilarious.

I just thought it deeply unfunny, and inappropriate invasion of the woman's personal space. I can't imagine any of the other Royals doing such a thing.

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He just hasn't developed any maturity and doesn't really seem suited to a life of meeting and greeting and offering words of comfort. 🤷‍♀️

Fly swatting in Australia. The woman he was talking to was a bit taken aback and then laughed. Meghan thought it was hilarious.

I hadn't seen that before. He looked ridiculous and obviously made that woman jump; I suppose she couldn't do anything other than laugh afterwards, since Harry was looking around proudly for a reaction and Meghan was clapping and laughing as if something really funny had happened.

I never saw that clip before either, what an ignoramus!

He really is a tosser isn't he!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14275607/Meghan-Markle-Netflix-series-experts-postponed-la-fires.html

Highlighting how disastrous it will be to launch on Wednesday. However, NF won’t postpone

NF will already have spent money promoting it, they aren’t going to spend more money months down the line. It will go out on Wednesday and won’t get the reception that Meghan wanted. There will be no showbiz buddies tweeting how amazing she is, there will be no insta posts from meghan thanking everyone who worked with her on the show.

She basically has to act as if it never existed, because to acknowledge it makes her look tone deaf. Imagine launching a business venture and not being able to promote it or even acknowledge it.

This is why it will be a disaster. She’s lucky she’s got the toxic British press and salty trolls who will still write about it. The US will pay it no attention.

I'm no MM fan, I think she's most probably a narcissist and generally not a likeable person, but even so, not postponing the launch of her show, would be pretty mean of Netflix.
If they don't, then it's a pretty clear indication they just want rid of her.

So M&H have no control at all over the launch dates of their shows launch, not even as producers? That must be very difficult for them to swallow.

OTOH, she may just want to get it over with now.

It's a TV show that was filmed almost 12 months ago, why would the release be postponed? it will be online to be watched at anyone's convenience, it's not like it is a live event.

The only reason it would be postponed is in the hope postponing it would prop up the viewing numbers, which would be pretty cynical and likely destroy any hope of a successful relaunch in a month or so, the publicity has been saturating already, so it will already be old news if they don't go ahead with the original release date.

People have died and more dead will soon be found, an area three times the size of Manhattan has been razed to the ground, over 12 000 properties have been obliterated, over 150 000 are currently homeless, many of those people were uninsured or underinsured because they lived in a fire zone, people are currently trawling through donated bags of second-hand clothes because they have literally nothing left, many people don't know where their pets are or if they survived the blaze, the devastation to wildlife will be horrific. I've just seen a clip of an elderly working class man who has managed to escape with his dogs and nothing else. He didn't even have water to drink.

And then there will be Meghan, wafting around in floaty dresses and marketing a carefully curated 'everything just so' celebrity lifestyle where true joy and self-expression is finding the perfect table runner on which to place the bowl of freshly cut, organically grown roses that you clipped from your twenty-acre garden that very morning.

Netflix won't be cruel if they postpone; they will be doing her a massive favour.

I wonder if the press articles about the trailer factor into Netflix's decision? They haven't exactly been very positive maybe Netflix are just cutting their losses and releasing it now because it won't get much attention.

Even Marie Antoinette would have had the political nous to postpone the launch of a luxury lifestyle show set in what is now the middle of an unprecedented natural disaster.

Meghan Markle’s show won’t be the only thing released on Netflix, or indeed anywhere else. If it’s any good the timing won’t matter. And if it isn’t, postponing the launch isn’t going to improve it.

Am now imagining Charles as a Miranda Priestly type character with a whole team cataloguing who was present at events and what happened / was discussed. Then he gets briefing notes to remind him about the people he has previously met so people think they are remembered.

I guess bothering to do all that to make people feel good is admirable but I hope he's nice to the team than Miranda was!

It's not about whether or not the show is any good or the viewing figures. When you are the brand you really have to care about how things look and this is going to make Imelda Marcos look like St Francis of Assisi.

True, it won't improve it, but at least it won't be completely tone deaf / bordering on offensive to release a Californian lifestyle program about being joyful in the home, whilst 1000s of homes are still burning to the ground.
As I said, I'm no fan of hers but this is particularly bad timing.

Brilliant and I can imagine fairly accurate!

If it released on the original launch date, any viewers inclined to be critical will know the date was chosen before the fires started. Hopefully that would help to mitigate damage to her brand.