Meghan Markle is surprise guest at Kerry Washington's birthday with newly single Jessica Alba

Meghan Markle was a astonishment impermanent astatine Kerry Washington's 48th day enactment this week - days aft a damning Vanity Fair nonfiction astir her and hubby Prince Harry was published.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was captured precise concisely successful a amusive video showing day cakes being presented to Washington, who was besides joined by a recently azygous Jessica Alba, 43.

Meghan, dressed successful a sleeveless achromatic top, was filmed smiling and clapping arsenic they sang Happy Birthday astatine the intimate meal enactment held connected Thursday.

While Washington and Alba shared galore photos and clips from the festivities, the erstwhile moving Royal was not disposable successful immoderate of them. 

Alba is presently navigating a marital divided aft separating from Cash Warren. 

The quality comes astatine a challenging clip for Meghan and Harry, who were precocious dealt a challenging stroke by the bombshell Vanity Fair article.  

According to the magazine, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex ran into respective snags that saw their lucrative woody with the streaming service, reportedly worthy £18million, illness successful conscionable 3 years.

The mates reportedly failed to output consistent, palmy contented for the platform, with 1 erstwhile employee, claiming they were dissimilar different personage podcasters, who volition 'turn connected the mic and talk'. 

Instead, the root said, the mates 'wanted a large taxable that would explicate the world, but they had nary ideas'.

Some of Harry's bizarre concepts ranged from reviewing blistery cocoa each week to interviewing the likes of Putin and Donald Trump astir being 'sociopaths'.

Meanwhile, Meghan recovered it hard to perpetrate to ideas earlier 'backtracking' and 'watering them down', meaning each occurrence had to beryllium 'completely reimagined precocious successful production', the nonfiction states.

Even erstwhile Meghan yet premiered her podcast Archetypes - aimed astatine empowering women by breaking down sex stereotypes - it failed to instrumentality disconnected amid rumours that Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion each declined to look connected it.

The damning illustration successful the mag - headlined ‘American Hustle’ - besides stated that the Duchess of Sussex could beryllium ‘really, truly awful’ erstwhile things did not spell her way.

Elsewhere, the illustration elaborate allegations from erstwhile employees of Meghan who reportedly felt mistreated during their clip moving with her.

Elsewhere, the illustration elaborate allegations from erstwhile employees of Meghan who reportedly felt mistreated during their clip moving with her.

The mates aboriginal dismissed the allegations arsenic 'distressing', according to claims successful The Times. 

Launched successful August 2022, Meghan's podcast intended to research the labels and stereotypes that clasp women back.

Despite a star-studded impermanent database that included Serena Williams and Mariah Carey, the podcast's archetypal buzz dwindled. In June 2023, Spotify and the Sussexes' accumulation company, Archewell Audio, announced they were parting ways.

Reports of behind-the-scenes disagreements surfaced, with immoderate sources alleging that Spotify had higher expectations regarding the magnitude of contented produced.

Then, successful February past year, Meghan signed a caller podcast woody with Lemonada Media, which appeared to suggest that caller episodes were connected the cards via Instagram, writing, 'We are SO Back!'

'With caller episodes of Fail Better, Boneheads, Pop Culture Debate Club AND MORE coming retired this week, which podcast are you excited to perceive to this week?'

Nestled successful the representation of podcasts shared by the media radical was Markle's Archetype podcast, possibly indicating that fans tin expect caller episodes aboriginal this year.

Fans flocked to the post's remark section, expressing their tendency for caller episodes.

The erstwhile episodes of the podcast, dating from August to November 2022, are disposable to watercourse connected each platforms. 

Meghan's Archetypes podcast astir pistillate stereotypes ran for conscionable 1 bid earlier her lucrative woody with Spotify ended successful 2023. 

The aboriginal woody came a twelvemonth aft the Duchess and her hubby Prince Harry ended their $20million woody with Spotify and 3 years aft it was signed. 

'I'm arrogant to present beryllium capable to stock that I americium joining the superb squad astatine Lemonada to proceed my emotion of podcasting,' Meghan said successful a connection successful February past year. 

Spotify and the Sussexes's audio accumulation institution Archewell Audio released a associated connection saying they person 'mutually agreed to portion ways and are arrogant of the bid we made together'. 

A apical Spotify podcast enforcement had called Prince Harry and Meghan 'f***ing grifters' aft they produced lone 1 13-episode bid of a podcast for the company, and past split.

In a connection astir her caller podcast, Meghan added: 'Being capable to enactment a female-founded institution with a roster of thought provoking and highly entertaining podcasts is simply a fantastic mode to footwear disconnected 2024. 

'Our program to re-release 'Archetypes' truthful that much radical tin present person entree to it, arsenic good arsenic launching a dynamic caller podcast are good successful the works. I'm truthful anxious to beryllium capable to stock it soon, and americium overjoyed to beryllium joining the Lemonada family.'

Earlier this month, it was revealed Meghan had made the determination to postpone With Love, Meghan owed to the devastation of the wildfires successful her hometown of Los Angeles.   

The Duchess and Prince Harry visited survivors of the wildfires and were spotted handing retired nutrient packages. 

They were besides said to person opened their location successful Montecito - astir 90 miles distant from LA - to victims and donated wealth and indispensable items.

A connection issued by the Duchess of Sussex connected Sunday, 3 days earlier the bid was scheduled to debut, read: 'I'm thankful to my partners astatine Netflix for supporting maine successful delaying the launch, arsenic we absorption connected the needs of those impacted by the wildfires successful my location authorities of California.'

With Love, Meghan reportedly includes tributes to the California-based royal's location authorities and her idiosyncratic ties to it. 

Since officially leaving the Royal Family and moving to California successful 2020, the Duke and Duchess person pursued a fig of antithetic avenues to bring successful revenue.

This includes Prince Harry's bombshell memoir Spare, which helium created arsenic portion of a $20million woody with Penguin Books. 

The mates besides teamed up with Netflix to produce the docu-series called Harry And Meghan, with the streaming elephantine reportedly paying the brace $100million for the six-episode series.