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/

I doubt it, the attacks would be relentless on social media. Even a small critism brings the wrath of keyboard warriors, Sean Lennon is testiment to that. Jason Knauff is able to withstand the abuse he received not sure a person in a lower paid job could withstand the pressure or the doxxing

Your majesty.

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i think it’s the opposite. It has a low sugar content and a high fruit content. At least that’s what I take from a chart someone posted yesterday that it explained what it takes for a jam to be jam or a preserve to be a preserve etc.

I'm still horrified reeling atunned at the audacity of someone putting a teabag in a jar of water and sitting it out to "warm" in the sun - and call it TEA!??

Oh. Me too.

Reminds me of my childhood attempts to make perfume by adding water, flower petals and bits of gone brown apple to a jar and shaking vigorously.

TBF it still might have been tastier than some foul sounding concoction left festering in sun and hope though...

I wonder why on earth she's continuing to flog this very dead horse of her fame/career/reputation she could just stick two fingers up and enjoy her family and staggering amount of millions.

Maybe she's contractually obliged to do this but actually doesnt want to at all?

Well she got herself into it. In am fascinated to see what happens next. Apart from doing more fake tours of dodgy African countries, I genuinely cannot see what either of them could do next .

No, I think she needs to be on tv. This is not a person who is capable of living quietly, modestly or under the radar.

One of the things I have noticed about the Squad is that when Meghan claimed to be leaving the royal family for philanthropy they were all 'She's the champion of the oppressed and you are all racist, misogynist, royalist bigots!' Now she is peddling a life of privilege and luxury and trying to sell $25 spread and petals they have changed to, 'You're just jealous because you are so poor and you could never afford our beloved's pancake mix and jam!' They couldn't make it clearer that they actually despise anyone who isn't living their aspirational lifestyle.

Well, I'm going to say that measured judgement isn't their strong point 🙄

Sorry - this mentions fruit spreads.

https://www.smuckers.com/articles/difference-between-jam-and-jelly#:~:text=The%20first%20thing%20you%20should,to%20create%20the%20right%20consistency.

This sounds correct. I buy St Dalfour Fruit Spreads. No cane sugar added, just fruit and fruit juice. The other one I like confusingly calls itself Superjam, but in small writing says it is pure fruit spread, and also contains no cane sugar. I assume some of the categorisations relate to legal shelf life.

Maybe she's contractually obliged to do this but actually doesnt want to at all?

This week's thing that never happened 😎

Oh let’s be better than that please. No one would say that about a man.

@OctopusFriend good one 😂😂😂

Reading the above link it says that not all types of fruit qualify to be called jam as well. It’s a bit confusing 😳😆

I read it @smilesy . Confusing is the word!

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/most-popular/

Top 10 Netflix shows by country.

This is the essence of Meghan - it's what drives her and always will.

Help please. I am now watching WLM episode 6. I realise that since Tuesday I have consumed too many dried flowers. Can anyone recommend an antidote?

Yes, and if that's how she wants to live her life, fine. However, she and Harry have to stop all the hypocrisy about privacy and intrusion, and being unable to cope with criticism, and deal with it.

There was a glimpse of that when she told off Mindy.

Also, $25 for a box of pancake mix?

A few American answers:

1. I use a kettle to boil tea water at work & home. I am lucky enough to work in a place with a stove. Otherwise, I would have to microwave the water. Many break rooms only have microwaves.
2. Electric kettles are considered dangerous, like irons, because they heat up so quickly and will stay on until unplugged so we can't use them at my job.
3. Sun tea is made in hot states, like in the south or the mid-West, where the sun is so strong that when it shines on the glass jar, it heats up and brews very quickly. It's meant to be drunk as ice tea. The ice tea is frequently very sweetened so all you taste is sugar and not tea ( my comments as a Yankee). You would not drink it as a hot tea.
4. In a state with heavy water shortages like California ( or NYC last year and the summer) you would take short showers to conserve water, not baths. I haven't taken a bath since the early 1990's and I use a water-saver shower head and a low-flush toilet. California Iinstituted new, very serious water rules in January:

https://socalwater.org/22-california-new-water-restrictions/#:~:text=FollowShare,$10%2C000%20a%20day%20in%20fines.

This is just filth, have they no respect

@BemusedAmerican don't your kettles have thermostats that "click off" once the waters boiling?

I don’t think they’ll stop as they are also determined to be super successful to rub the RFs name in it.
Harry thinks he can do better than William, that’s why he keeps trying to brand himself a world leader of whatever other nonsense.
The SS are obsessed with MM having been the bestest best royal ever who showed them up with her bestness, without really having a clue what a working member of the RF does (much like MM herself).