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With Love, Meghan finally dropped on the streaming platform on Tuesday

The Duchess of Sussex’s long-awaited lifestyle series finally dropped on Netflix on Tuesday

Meghan shared her excitement in the run-up to With Love, Meghan’s premiere, as she surprised fans at a special screening in New York on Monday.

A whole host of the Duchess’ closest-friends and celebrity guests joined her at a glamorous estate in California to exchange cooking, gardening and hosting tips – including fellow Suits star Abigail Spencer, her makeup artist Daniel Martin and Office actor Mindy Kaling.

Meghan’s husband, Prince Harry, also made a brief cameo during the show.

The eight-episode series was originally meant to drop on the streaming giant in January but the show was delayed until 4 March amid the LA wildfires, with Meghan saying in a statement that she wanted to “focus on the needs of those impacted”.

Episode one – Hello, Honey!

Meghan Markle kicks off her show with a visit from her good friend and makeup artist Daniel Martin. The pair meet to bake cakes, make beeswax candles and ‘cosy’ pasta – with the Duchess revealing several details about her life along the way.

The highlights include her love of beekeeping, something that she and her father-in-law King Charles share, as well as the main thing that she does to make every house guest feel welcome when staying at her home – homemade bath salts.

She also revealed that her friend Daniel is called “Uncle Daniel” by her children, Archie and Lilibet, and that he has been there for “before, during and after” major events of her life, alluding to her time with the royal family. However, despite their long friendship, the episode is full of revelations – including how Meghan learned that Daniel is actually left handed!

The pair met when Meghan starred in Suits, and she personally reached out looking for a makeup artist before she even had a publicist. The pair have since become very close, with Daniel even accompanying Meghan for the cake tasting ahead of her royal wedding to Prince Harry, where the pair opted for a lemon and elderflower taste.

The mum-of-two also shared that she loved making popcorn with her children, and will often make tasty, healthy pasta for their dinner which she’ll then put in their lunchboxes for the next day. Despite her love of cooking, she also revealed that baking isn’t her favourite thing to do – but made a cake anyway thanks to her friend’s love of sweet treats.

Meghan invites Office star Mindy Kaling over to share her tips and tricks to really elevate your children’s party – from colourful intricate balloon arches, to rainbow fruit platters and botanical-themed gift bags.

Chatting about the soft launch of her then-called American Riviera Orchard brand last year, the Duchess revealed the numbers on the 50 jars caused some friction: “It was not a ranking, it was just ‘let me share them’ and then people started to take it very personally.”

She added: “I did save one of 50 for my mom of course, felt like the right thing to do.

“And then I just thought, anyone who got one of those 50 jars that I was making on my stove in my actual kitchen at my house, I hope they all felt like ‘I want to share this with you’.

Meghan shares she has happy memories of her grandmother making apple butter, and how she hopes that her own jam-making will remind Archie and Lilibet of coming home from school. “There she is, oh mom’s making some preserves again,” she jokes.

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it certainly seems that way in the Sussex household.