Netflix has released the trailer for the second series of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle series With Love, Meghan.
In the 90-second promo Meghan is shown baking bread, making jewellery, wrapping gifts and arranging flowers with an array of American celebrities including the model Chrissy Teigen and the Queer Eye presenter Tan France.
“I love the idea of just spending time together … and finding new ways to show people you care,” Meghan said. “There are easy ways to show up, lovingly.”
The trailer ends with Meghan revealing that Prince Harry is not a fan of lobster.
“Do you know who doesn’t like lobster,” she asks while preparing seafood. “My husband.”
José Andrés, a Spanish American chef who is helping her with the dish replies: “And you married him?!”
With José Andrés in the series and, below, Chrissy Teigen
With Love, Meghan will be released on August 26 and is billed as a “fun and heartwarming” show featuring celebrity chefs, talented artists, and “beloved friends for hands-on adventures filled with laughter and discovery”.
“From playful cooking challenges to DIY projects, Meghan and her guests explore bold flavours, experiment with new techniques, and discover simple ways to add beauty to everyday life,” a Netflix statement said. “It’s all about embracing playfulness over perfection and finding joy in creating together.”
The first series featured Meghan cooking with friends and celebrities such as Vicky Tsai
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The second edition of With Love, Meghan comes six months after the debut series, which was panned by Carol Midgley, the Times columnist and TV reviewer, despite finding it full of “immaculately tasteful” domestic tips from Montecito.
“If you thought With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s new lifestyle show, would be a smug, syrupy endurance watch, and that you would rather fry your eyeballs than sit through it, I have news for you,” Midgley said. “It is so much worse than that.”
The With Love, Meghan trailer was released the day after the Duke and Duchess struck a watered-down deal with the US streaming giant after the expiration of their initial five-year partnership.
The latest “multi-year, first-look deal” for films and TV shows produced by the couple’s Archewell Productions is effectively a downgrade from the exclusive arrangement signed in 2020. It means that Netflix will have first refusal on any ideas generated by the couple but is some way short of the previous “golden handcuffs-style” agreement, signed for a reported £74 million.
The relationship began in December 2022 with the six-part documentary series Harry & Meghan, which became Netflix’s fifth-most popular documentary series after generating more than 23 million views in its first four days.
Meghan and Harry have signed a new “first-look” deal with Netflix
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The first series of With Love, Meghan was unable to match that strong performance, with about five million views.
The eight-part series did not delve into the royal family or her departure from official duties but revealed a little about what her life is like living in Montecito, California, with her husband Prince Harry, their two children, Archie and Lilibet, and their pet chickens.
It also featured a smattering of the duchess’s A-list friends including her former Suits co-star Abigail Spencer, and the actress Mindy Kaling, alongside some credible foodies such as the Korean-American chef Roy Choi and the legendary Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, the Californian restaurant credited with spawning the farm-to-table movement.