{"id":374618,"date":"2025-08-26T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374618\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:50:23","slug":"what-we-learnt-from-second-series-of-with-love-meghan-including-what-the-duchess-of-sussex-misses-about-the-uk-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374618\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learnt from second series of With Love, Meghan – including what the Duchess of Sussex misses about the UK | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second season of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan, has been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the eight-episode series, which features celebrity guests including US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye’s Tan France, Meghan opens up about what she misses most about the UK, the meal she cooked on the night Prince Harry proposed, and who said “I love you” first.<\/p>\n

Despite Harry<\/a><\/strong> not making a cameo in the Netflix show, Meghan<\/a><\/strong> does give some insight into her life in California with the prince, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n

Here is what we learnt from the duchess.<\/p>\n

Harry saying ‘I love you’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

In one episode, with British fashion designer France, Meghan says it was Harry who first said he loved her.<\/p>\n

She adds that she fell in love with him while camping in Botswana, the pair’s third date.<\/p>\n

“We met in Bostwana and we camped for five days together,” she says, adding: “You really get to know someone when you are in a little tent.”<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Harry and Meghan on the day they announced their engagement. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

‘Terrible’ chicken<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the fourth episode with American chef and TV host Samin Nosrat, Meghan reveals she tried to make a roast chicken on the night Harry proposed in 2017, but it didn’t turn out how she expected.<\/p>\n

“I will say when I made a roast chicken for my now-husband I was still having a lot of challenges with the conversion of celsius and fahrenheit. I made a horrible chicken that night. I mean, truly terrible,” she says.<\/p>\n

“The point is you can make a terrible chicken and someone is still going to appreciate the thought.”<\/p>\n

Missing UK radio station <\/strong><\/p>\n

After first getting married, Meghan had planned to apply for British citizenship. But the pair later moved to the US after stepping down from their roles as working royals.<\/p>\n

\"Meghan<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Meghan told Tan France she misses listening to Magic FM. Pic: Netflix\/PA<\/p>\n

In episode three, with Tan France, Meghan admits one of the things she “misses the most” about the UK, after leaving five years ago.<\/p>\n

She says: “Honestly, one of the things I miss the most about the UK is the radio station called Magic.”<\/p>\n

To which France quips: “Magic FM. Wow! Now, sorry to say this to you publicly, but that’s such a grandma station.”<\/p>\n

A laughing Meghan replies: “I’ll be that grandma.”<\/p>\n

Duchess ‘not well’ when away from her children<\/strong><\/p>\n

Later in episode three, when the pair are crafting aprons for their children, Meghan says she “always wanted to be a mum”, which is now “better than she expected” after the birth of Archie, in 2019, and Lilibet – who they call Lili for short – in 2021.<\/p>\n

\"Meghan<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Meghan and Chrissy Teigen. Pic: Netflix\/PA<\/p>\n

Sympathising with France, who explained he gets heartbroken if away from his two young children for more than a couple of days, the duchess says the longest she and Harry have ever been without seeing their children is almost three weeks.<\/p>\n

“I was… not well,” Meghan says about the separation.<\/p>\n

In Harry’s 2023 memoir<\/a><\/strong>, Spare, he wrote of the “difficult days” after Queen Elizabeth’s death and how he and Meghan were separated from Archie and Lili for “longer than we’d ever been”.<\/p>\n

He said when they reunited at their home in Montecito, “for days and days we couldn’t stop hugging the children, couldn’t let them out of our sight”.<\/p>\n

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Harry and Meghan’s wedding menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

When chatting with British chef Clare Smyth, who cooked the food at Harry and Meghan’s Windsor wedding in 2018, the duchess says “everyone still talks” about the meal – which was roast chicken.<\/p>\n

“Remember we had the map where everything was sourced? We really wanted people to appreciate where every ingredient was coming from,” she says.<\/p>\n

The three-Michelin starred chef revealed that she also devised a special fried chicken recipe to serve as a “late-night bite” at the wedding, which she now serves as an “off menu” item at her restaurant Core.<\/p>\n

“Our off menu item is the fried chicken at Core,” Meghan says, adding: “If that’s my claim to fame. I’m thrilled.”<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Harry and Meghan on their wedding day in May 2018. Pic: Danny Lawson\/PA<\/p>\n

Archie and Lili use both British and American words<\/strong><\/p>\n

In another part of the sixth episode, Smyth says she always has to think about the American names for certain foods, including eggplant (aubergine) and cilantro (coriander).<\/p>\n

The duchess then says: “My kids will say a little bit of both but never cooking terms, because I guess papa is not cooking as much.<\/p>\n

“They both say zebra instead of zee-bra.”<\/p>\n

The premiere of the second season of With Love, Meghan comes two weeks after Harry and Meghan announced a watered-down deal with the streaming giant Netflix.<\/p>\n

They have signed a “multi-year, first-look deal for film and television projects”, in contrast to their reported $100m (\u00a374m) contract five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second season of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan, has been released.\u00a0 Over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115094449628348113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}