Secrets of Meghan's show revealed by those who've seen it: They tell what Netflix insiders are really saying - and their verdict will shock you, reveals ALISON BOSHOFF

As she prepares to enactment Prince Harry astatine the opening of the Invictus Games successful Vancouver tonight, Meghan is – arsenic truthful often – contending with crises and criticisms.

Her caller Instagram video, successful which she bubbles implicit with excitement astatine securing a Billie Eilish T-shirt arsenic a 'good deed' for a teen who mislaid her location successful the Altadena fires, is simply a lawsuit successful point.

'A T-shirt, for a miss who's conscionable mislaid her home? What's she meant to do? Stick a mates of poles successful it, and usage it arsenic a tent?' asked 1 critic.

Others recovered responsibility with her posting the video connected Instagram earlier adjacent contacting the teen and her mother, portion immoderate felt that repeatedly referencing her celebrated friends, instrumentalist Adam Levine and his exemplary woman Behati Prinsloo, was besides ill-advised.

Oddly, neither Levine nor Prinsloo, who are credited with passing connected Meghan's dependable connection asking for assistance to vocalist Eilish, person retweeted oregon liked the post. Eilish is besides silent. Perhaps the vocalist prefers her philanthropy to beryllium private, oregon connected a larger scale.

Meanwhile, though we are lone a fewer weeks distant from the delayed motorboat of her Netflix TV show, With Love, Meghan, cipher seems to beryllium paying attraction to the societal media of her associated manner merchandising brand, American Riviera Orchard.

American Riviera Orchard, which inactive has lone 598,000 followers connected Instagram (against 1.6 cardinal for Meghan's idiosyncratic account), has been embarrassingly affected by a rejig successful the app's format arsenic it appears connected immoderate accounts. 

The grid, which erstwhile proclaimed 'American Riviera Orchard, Montecito' successful swirling golden script, present reads: 'Amen Riviera chard, ontecit.'

And, successful a further origin of consternation for the Duchess, who fiercely protects the privateness of her children, her aged friend, the activistic and writer Gloria Steinem, has accidentally shared a wide representation of some Archie and Lilibet.

In a photoshoot astatine her New York location for the mag Architectural Digest, a paper from the mates is prominently displayed connected a array by Steinem's desk, featuring the household of 4 seemingly lying down connected the lawn.

Archie is playfully resting his thenar connected Meghan's forehead arsenic she giggles. Both helium and Lilibet are looking straight astatine the camera.

The inadvertent work of a backstage paper – presumably a Christmas greeting – feels similar yet different misstep which Meghan could bash without. Indeed, the past of her media interactions since Megxit is fraught with nasty nationalist slaps.

There was South Park's 'Worldwide Privacy Tour' occurrence successful March 2023, pursuing work of Harry's memoir Spare, past Spotify brag Bill Simmons called her and Harry 'f***ing grifters' successful June that twelvemonth aft their woody with the level was dropped.

Last month, Vanity Fair published an unflattering illustration of the couple, with the screen line: 'Five years aft leaving the monarchy, Meghan and Harry are trying their damnedest to conscionable beryllium mean moguls.'

Now, with the aboriginal of the Netflix woody seemingly up successful the aerial (it expires aboriginal this year), it seems Meghan is pinning her hopes connected the manner amusement to claw backmost immoderate popularity. To that end, With Love, Meghan doubles arsenic a PR workout and aims to person the assemblage of her saintly qualities – arsenic a friend.

Her adjacent pal Abigail Spencer, a erstwhile co-star connected Suits who appears connected the series, has spoken astir Meghan's 'heart-song magical-thoughtfulness' and it tin beryllium revealed that this 'magic Meghan' is the taxable of the show.

Another person who features connected With Love, Meghan, foundation laminitis Kelly McKee Zajfen, has besides talked connected Instagram astir 'the magic that is Meg'.

A prime fewer person been capable to spot a preview of the series, and 1 told maine that a wand has surely been waved implicit Meghan's tricky nationalist image.

The root said: 'I deliberation the astir absorbing happening astir it is seeing the pains she takes to springiness perfectly nary offence.

'All her shows up to present person been Meghan with an docket – if you look backmost to the Oprah interrogation oregon Harry & Meghan. But this is her connected her ain and she takes pains to accidental perfectly thing which is successful immoderate mode arguable oregon newsworthy.

'What she does is make a beauteous dreamworld of candles and flowers and friends.'

The root adds: 'It's not a cooking show, it's astir however to beryllium a cleanable big and, by extension, however to beryllium a large friend.'

A cynic mightiness constituent retired that, with truthful galore of her household relationships successful ashes, she surely couldn't present a amusement astir hosting household gatherings. One of her archetypal guests is the make-up creator Daniel Martin, who did her make-up for her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.

Meghan is shown picking retired a posy of flowers for his impermanent room, which she manus ties. The root said: 'She shows you however to marque your impermanent country pretty, however to adust a home-made potpourri to enactment by the bed.

'She shows what she cooks for meal – but not truly how. There aren't recipes, she conscionable talks astir a beauteous crockery of pasta oregon baking bread. It's precise aspirational. Everything is perfect.'

Produced by Meghan and her squad astatine Archewell, with the assistance of a squad astatine the Intellectual Property Corporation – an offshoot of Sony – With Love, Meghan's promo worldly features the blurb: 'Create wonderment successful each moment.'

A root says: 'One of the moments of wonderment is decidedly her wardrobe. It's beauteous overmuch each white, pick oregon beige with masses of golden jewellery and diamonds. She is perfectly pristine throughout, and perfectly styled.'

Presented arsenic a blase Californian home-maker, with a ellipse of influential friends, determination is nary hint of the jobbing histrion who scrabbled her mode up via a relation arsenic a 'briefcase girl' connected Deal oregon No Deal.

Nor is determination immoderate motion of the philanthropist powerhouse who said she wanted to get her 'boots connected the ground' arsenic a caller subordinate of the Royal Family. Nor of the pistillate who chopped disconnected her ain begetter implicit his perceived media betrayal.

I'm told: 'She is sweetness and airy connected this show. No conflict, nary sadness. It's precise blase and elevated. Nothing folksy.'

Wisely, she acknowledges that she is filming the amusement successful the location 'next door' to her ain location and besides admits that, contrary to the content she whitethorn person fixed successful the trailer, she is not a bee keeper.

Nor is she the 1 who has raised those cleanable heads of lettuce which she picks.

She is, by immoderate distance, the astir celebrated idiosyncratic who features. A root said: 'She has a impermanent each week. Mostly it's a mate. A batch of them were antecedently connected her podcasts.'

They see histrion Mindy Kaling, writer Alice Waters and cook Roy Choi. There are besides a fig of idiosyncratic friends: arsenic good arsenic Daniel Martin, there's Delfina Blaquier, who is joined to Prince Harry's champion pal, polo subordinate Nacho Figueras, and manner decorator Tracy Robbins, who is joined to Paramount brag Brian.

Blaquier wrote connected her Instagram stories past month: 'Congrats for the emotion and hard enactment you enactment into this task of yours! So grateful to beryllium a portion of it – I can't hold to spot each you person to share.'

Tracy Robbins appears successful the promo for the show, wherever she's seen clinking glasses with her friend. She wrote connected Instagram stories: 'So excited to share! Congrats my friend.'

Meanwhile, Daniel Martin, who was astatine Meghan's New York babe ablution successful 2019, says connected his grid: 'My culinary assurance is owed to @meghan and I'm truthful excited for you each to ticker this!'

Fellow Suits histrion Abigail Spencer gushed connected Instagram past month: 'So elated for you @meghan! Happy New Year & 20twentythrive indeed! How fortunate are we to get a glimpse into your heart-song, magical-thoughtfulness & deliciously fantastic ways. Can't hold for each to autumn successful emotion with #WithLoveMeghan. Thanks for having maine implicit & being genuinely the astir fantastic person a gal could get. Joy & bubbles abound. Here to learn. I'll get the salt.'

And Kelly McKee Zajfen, who founded a foundation The Alliance of Moms aft the tragic decease of her son, wrote: 'Beyond excited for the satellite to spot you and your magic!!! As I say, 'Come on! It's conscionable truthful good!!' Thank you for including me. You are the champion hostess, mama, woman and champion friend. Shine bright. Stay tuned . . . to spot each the magic that is Meg.'

With Love, Meghan was expected to commencement streaming connected January 15 but was pulled from the schedules successful the aftermath of the devastating California fires.

In a connection astatine the time, the Duchess said: '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.'

It volition present motorboat connected March 4. And it tin beryllium revealed that the 'brand separation' for her and Prince Harry continues, with Harry 'barely glimpsed' and 'barely mentioned' successful the show, which is near to basal oregon autumn connected the charisma of the Duchess of Sussex alone.

This is surely wise, arsenic Harry has been little than palmy erstwhile it comes to Netflix. Aside from the epic score-settling of Harry & Meghan, he's made 2 shows for the streamer: Heart of Invictus astir the enactment of his foundation for injured servicemen, and Polo, astir the sport.

Heart of Invictus was 1 of the worst performing shows for the streamer successful 2023, drafting conscionable 300,000 views globally, according to figures released by Netflix.

No figures person been released for Polo, but it didn't marque immoderate of the planetary Top Tens astir the week of its release.

With the couple's £80 cardinal Netflix woody moving retired this autumn, With Love, Meghan could beryllium their past publication to the streaming giant. Numerous different projects, specified arsenic a movie adaptation of the chick-lit caller Meet Me At The Lake, person travel to nothing.

So, if they are to person immoderate accidental of getting the woody renewed, it indispensable beryllium a hit.

The stakes are adjacent higher due to the fact that With Love, Meghan is intended to enactment arsenic a launchpad for American Riviera Orchard, which is expected to commencement selling its archetypal products imminently, contempt ongoing niggles implicit trademark.

That business, which is understood to beryllium tally successful conjunction with Netflix, could beryllium the couple's fiscal lifeline. It each depends, of course, connected members of the nationalist worldwide really wanting to bargain what she's selling.

My root says that Netflix has large hopes for it. 'You travel distant from watching it feeling much affirmative astir her than erstwhile you went into it,' I'm told.

We shall find retired if that translates into an uptick successful her popularity – and a caller income watercourse – soon enough.