As Ever Part 6: Definitely NOT a trad wife

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Previous thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/5286597-as-ever-part-v-two-stunt-lemons-with-love-meghan

Carry on! Reviews from the US are trickling in, so far, not so good - https://variety.com/2025/tv/reviews/with-love-meghan-markle-netflix-duchess-of-sussex-1236327469/

Absolutely. Talk about a baptism of fire! 🔥

I agree, the pastry should be golden brown, not pale, and the egg filing looks a bit raw. What's the red stuff on it/in it? It reminds me of footage of liposuction.

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies You obviously elevated your kebab----it's been said before

You are so right on this….

I laughed out loud at the last sentence.

This thread is a hoot.

Liposuction and haemoglobin molecules. Is she thinking of a career as a surgeon 🤔

typo

Me, me,me,me. Me again. Me…

Food should be educational, you plebs, Archie already knows the periodic table off by heart, and asks my husband about Schrodinger's Cat whenever he looks at papa's hairline.

The purple ones look more like a painful case of piles.
(sorry)

It was undercooked. In the episode Meg says she’s likes it a bit soft in the middle….when she tries to cover clearly bringing it out of the oven too early and has already cut into it.

A little wobble is fine….but it was oozy.

@JSMill It's Emilia Wickstead originally from New Zealand but based in London - Catherine wears a lot of her stuff

@Uricon2 for you
One Perfect Rose
Dorothy Parker 1893 – 1967

A single flow’r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet—
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
“My fragile leaves,” it said, “his heart enclose.”
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

I definitely think some of the Netflix crew were trolling her, with the music and many clips they included that didn't put her in a good light.

I'm not au fait with these things but wouldn't she as Duchess Chief Poohbah Executive Producer have had some sort of say over the editing?

I'd love to see what hit the cutting room floor...

I reckon she's too stupid to realise she was having the piss taken out of her.

I am feeling a bit sorry for her. She probably knew it was going to be bad but not this bad. The timing for her is just so awful with everything else going on.

There's really a self-awareness issue though, saying things like 'you can get beeswax from your local beekeeper' to make your own candles, with a straight face, is completely insane (if she did say that, I saw it somewhere and it stuck in my head.)

If she'd even used her own house it would have seemed more genuine. As soon as I saw it wasn't her house it was obvious there would be no substance to it.

Alternatively (and more likely given the blinkers the Harolds have had to their own creative output) we have what were deemed the best takes 🎬

I think the problem is that it isn't what she wanted to do. She had visions of herself as a globe trotting philanthropist, taking private jets to gala dinners where she'd give well received speeches while wearing custom couture and rubbing shoulders with world leaders.

@IcedPurple I agree with this. But surely that is exactly what her role in the royal family would have allowed her to do. So why did she throw it all away?

She's being accused of racism for mocking MK's accent?

Unconscious bias, surely?

I wonder why they have done this considering they left the comments open for the trailer?

I've just been wandering round where I live, asking people if they know where the beekeeper is because I need to buy some wax to light up, and now the drug squad is battering down my door.

No one… apart from the royal family. Which she left.

I’ve been musing on this and I think the vapid nonsense that is With Love, Meghan has been a monumentally successful distraction.

The story that was gathering pace a few short weeks ago was her bullying and intimidating behaviour towards subordinates. She could have been totally cancelled. Instead, she’s headline news. Yes, she’s ridiculed, because she is ridiculous, but she’s still there. And no-one’s talking about the bullying any more.

I'm home ill today and watched it. Parts are good - the chefs and experts in. Parts are bad. First two episodes. Mostly it's doing too much. But there are parts that could work as a successful show.

The single dahlia hand-plucked from your garden

I really don't like dahlias. Up there with chrysanthemums as naff flowers, imo.
But, regardless of which flower, how the heck else are you going to "pluck" it if not by hand?
Is she in the habit of ripping off blooms between her teeth and presenting them to people like she's mid tango?
That'll be all the Argentine mojo she absorbed while there for...ooh, months, I suppose.

@BasiliskStare yes I recognise that name but I assume I couldn't possibly afford anything she sells!

If she really bullies ‘subordinates’ then someone will blow the whistle, surely? And why not already? NDAs postc Weinstein not what they were.