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/

@User14March it's probably less about NDAs, and more about not wanting to have a public reputation as a potential troublemaker/whistleblower when you are looking for your next job.

I always find it baffling that she keeps using "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex" when this would actually be her title on divorce (in the same way as Fergie is Sarah, Duchess of York). Why has Harry not explained this to her?!

Harry didn't have a title when he was in the army, so he could use his father's title as a surname. Once he got his own title (Sussex), he stopped being able to use Charles' title as a surname. He especially can't use Wales now because it's passed to William.

I thought jam was a common thing to have on pancakes but I'm not from the UK.

A thought: is Harry paying Netflix to give his bizarre wife this bizarre tv show? I can't think of any other reason why Netflix is taking part in this lunacy. Aside from having it in for Mrs Sussex big time!

Oozy? My mistake. Not surgery. She wants to be Dr Pimple Popper

Harry, it would appear, has explained fuck all to her , curtsying to his grandmother, the titles of Prince and Princess and when they are given , the fact that they don't get paid to do walk abouts , the fact that they didn't have a secret wedding before the actual wedding etc etc

I don’t think anyone’s forgotten the bullying at all, Meghan seems to be immune from cancellation for some strange reason, she seems to have this wall of protection around her however many people she traumatises, if she was going to be cancelled it would have happened when the Hollywood Reporter printed their article and now because Meghan has literally served on a platter her fake, insincere, narcissistic personality in full glorious technicolour for the world to see and people have grasped the opportunity to vocalise what they really think about her, as I said Karma’s a bitch.

The Alice Waters episode is the cringiest thing I've ever watched.

Why would she need Harry to explain this to her when any of us random folk on the internet know it?

She calls herself 'Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex' which isn't even the divorced style as that wouldn't have the 'the'. I think she does it so she can ensure her name is in there, as her correct title is simply 'the Duchess of Sussex'. It also gets around her 'agreement' not to use the HRH which I am sure neither is happy about.

"Has anyone in the world ever been so tickled by the sight of lettuces?"

Erm, no.

Because they are not unhinged.

It was worse than that. She said 'a piece of this' ie gathering the crumbs from beneath my table, serfs.

Very true! It's just that the title thing is so counter-intuitive for someone who keeps telling us how happily married she is 😂

In the 1980s, Paula Yates said in some interview that the way to cheat at giving dinner parties was to buy ready-made dishes from M&S, tip them into fancy serving ware then trip outside in your posh frock to hide the packaging in the dustbin. Recalling this long-buried memory has made me realise that Meghan lacks a sense of irony. WLM could be a success - and a very different show - if she had the wit to take the p**s out of herself. As she has no sense of humour, the audience takes the piss out of her. Paula Yates could cook in a ballgown and it would be funny whereas Meghan floating about in hers, empty-handed at the end of a passage-way in her house, just looks ridiculous.

I thought jam was a common thing to have on pancakes but I'm not from the UK.

On Pancake Day, which was yesterday, traditionally it's lemon juice and sugar in the UK. But I gather they were not pancakes but crepes, and I don't know what goes with those.

I always find it baffling that she keeps using "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex" when this would actually be her title on divorce

I don't. I don't At All.

Or one could seal their revenge by smuggling the Benny Hill theme tune into her pretentious claptrap...

She invited Ken Dodd round? I might watch that episode.

She was never HRH Princess Rachel Meghan because she is not a 'blood' royal. She was, and theoretically still is, HRH The Duchess of Sussex. She could go by Princess Henry if she wanted, but you can see why she doesn't!

I find this ‘royal blood’ stuff ridiculous. I know what you mean, and it’s used quite commonly but it really is just perpetuating an idea that there is something particularly special about these people. Other than being the descendants of some brutal dictators and some bloody nasty cunts, they are the same as everyone else. ‘descendants of monarchy’ or something like that would be better in my opinion:

I don't see that there would have been anything stopping feminist Meghan from keeping her own name. She was never even a British citizen, so could certainly have remained Rachel Meghan Markle on her American passport.

There nothing stopping her from
keeping her name but it sounds like she has chosen to use Sussex - to be the same name as her children. That does not mean she’s not a feminist. She’s been able to make the choice.

I wonder if the insistence on Sussex is a way of hinting at an 'us four against the world' vibe so part of the victim mentality. King George V1 talked about 'We four' to refer to him, Elizabeth and their daughters, which is also a bit 'us against the world' although I doubt Meghan will have read back that far.

She mentioned (twice possibly!) that the arch needed to account for a tree. So there’s the half-assed fruit kebab rainbow arch on one side of the tree, and then the haemorrhoid on the other. Obviously if there were actual children invited to the children’s garden party that arch would be down faster than a whore’s knickers but luckily the nanny’s handling them so that’s all good.

The Roy Choi episode was passable. I’m now midway through the Delfina Dog Biccie episode and losing the will a bit.

Also, why does she keep saying “fresh preserves”?

Anything preserved is not fresh by definition.

She’s just easily tickled.

I find this ‘royal blood’ stuff ridiculous. I know what you mean, and it’s used quite commonly but it really is just perpetuating an idea that there is something particularly special about these people.

I guess that's why Harry and Meghan cling so tightly to those titles and ensured that their children are Prince and Princess. It's obviously extremely important that everyone knows they're not just anyone!

There nothing stopping her from
keeping her name but it sounds like she has chosen to use Sussex - to be the same name as her children

Her children do not have the name 'Sussex'. According to their birth certs, they have the family name of Mountbatten Windsor.

From the GQ Article (Thanks @AtIusvue )

"But this isn't really about Markle. *
This is about the fact that a show as devoid of concept as this, as ignorable, was commissioned by Netflix at the expense of something better. It's about the opportunity cost of bankrolling blandness. "

I would love to be a fly on the wall in a meeting with those who came up with the initial contract. OK they wanted the exit story , but did they need to give H&M what seemed like a lot of money for a pretty woolly brief for further programmes Do you think they blinked first worried that someone else would get it ? It's annoying though that with Live to Lead the Invictus one and Polo NF must have pissed a lot of money up the wall ( I know it seems to be accepted H&M won't end up earning $100m ) but even so. Anora which won best picture Oscar only had a budget of $6m. OK that's not a fair comparison but I can't see H&M whether it be NF or another streaming company being offered such good terms again - if at all. But what do I know.

*cheekily I quite like the cut of the chap's jib - not only ignoring her saying she's changed her surname but not even using the Meghan she wants to keep. I really think as I've said before it will be a slow train coming people not thinking of her as Meghan Markle.

I've noticed she cannot bear to be wrong or make a mistake.
When she's making the coffee creamer, and the bloke tells her it's boiling over she goes quiet, then has to say she thinks it's good and gets a bit funny. She couldn't just laugh it off as a silly mistake.