The new series features the Duchess of Sussex cooking and gardening with friends and celebrity guests.
This Is Everything We Know About Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’
Published on Jan. 06, 2025
“I’ve always loved taking something pretty ordinary and elevating it,” says Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, in the trailer for her new Netflix series. With Love, Meghan, which premieres January 15, has already piqued the internet’s interest: The YouTube trailer has about 1.2 million views, and the TikTok version has over 3.2 million views, with thousands of comments ranging from excitement to ambivalence. What do we know so far about the show?
Not much, in fact. Though Deadline announced the project in April of 2024, no substantive updates about With Love, Meghan surfaced until last week, when the trailer dropped. Anyone keeping track of Meghan’s assorted ventures was surely expecting her next announcement to relate to American Riviera Orchard, her lifestyle brand announced in March 2024 but about which no further information has been provided since.
With Love, Meghan will consist of eight episodes, all of which will drop at once on January 15. Created by Archewell Productions—the media company owned by Meghan and her royal husband, Price Harry—it’s the first Meghan-led nonfiction media project since her podcast, Archetypes, which ran for 12 episodes before Archewell and Spotify announced their split in 2023.
What is Meghan’s new Netflix series about?
Netflix describes the series as one in which “Meghan reveals how even the most minute details can help add beauty to our lives and, most importantly, help bring people together.” This is underscored by the trailer, which depicts Meghan drizzling olive oil onto hummus, arranging berries on a cake and inspecting hydrangeas.
“We join Meghan in the kitchen, garden—and even at the beehive—as she prepares to host friends both old and new,” reads the press release in part. For anyone eager to get a glimpse of Meghan’s Montecito lifestyle, it’s worth noting in advance that the series is not filmed at Meghan’s real house, but rather this $8 million farmhouse. It’s an understandable production decision that preserves Meghan and Harry’s privacy, but one that diminishes the series’ apparent desire to convey authenticity.
Using the trailer alone as our guide, it’s hard to pin down what we can expect to take away from this series. With its high production value, bathing all the fruits of California in a golden glow, perhaps it doesn’t need to serve any loftier purpose. It’s soothing to look at, aspirational content for the home chef or entertainer. Who doesn’t want to carry an elegant wicker basket through a backyard garden?
Who appears in the trailer?
“I’m going to share some little tips and tricks,” Meghan says in the trailer, implying that each episode will contain some degree of instruction. Since guests include Roy Choi, Alice Waters and “additional acclaimed chefs and special friends,” we can hope these experts will share with us and Meghan what they know about home entertaining.
Entertainer Mindy Kaling and actress Abigail Spencer (Meghan’s former Suits costar) can also be seen in the trailer, as well as Delfina Blaquier, whose polo-player husband was featured in Prince Harry’s 2024 Netflix series Polo. Other Southern California entrepreneurs, various associates and some tight friends, like Meghan’s Suits makeup artist Daniel Martin, round out the cast.
Prince Harry can be seen at the tail end of the trailer as well, embracing his wife with what looks like a mimosa in hand.
“We’re not in the pursuit of perfection—we’re in the pursuit of joy,” says Meghan’s voiceover in the trailer. But the only real imperfection that can be seen is when Meghan accidentally sends a bit of lemon juice spurting out the side of her citrus squeezer. If “love is in the details,” as this series insists, then hopefully at least a few of those details will be real, honest and imperfect.
