Meghan Markle has opened up her world of luxury as part of the royal’s new Netflix cooking series, aimed at transforming her into a ‘domestic goddess’.
‘With Love, Meghan’ landed on Netflix this morning lifting the veil on the Duchess of Sussex‘s lavish lifestyle in California with husband Prince Harry and their two children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.
The eight-part series has been filmed inside a £5million mansion on a sprawling estate just two miles from the Sussexes’ £11million Montecito home.
The idyllic rented pad nestled within a gated community, boasts eight acres of avocado trees and lemon groves and is owned by Montecito’s influential Cipolla family.
Inside, Meghan is filmed cooking, baking, cocktail making, flower arranging and party planning using its kitchen’s lavish £15,000 eight-hob Thermador oven.
The 43-year-old royal also gets to show off some of her £80,000 designer wardrobe while she treats her famous celebrity pals to cakes and snacks.
Dangling elegantly from her wrist as she chops up fruit with a £134 knife is a luxurious £21,400 Cartier ‘tank Francaise’ gold watch and a £4,544 Cartier yellow gold bracelet.
Working on the hob of the Thermador oven, Meghan is seen preparing food in a top-of-the-range white Le Creuset pan, worth between £180 and £250.
In this picture, Meghan is seen wearing a £21,000 gold watch and £4,544 gold bracelet as she chops fruit. In the background, there is a designer blender worth about £300
Meghan is seen cooking on a pricey £15,000 eight-hob Thermador oven, using a designer Le Creuset pan worth between £180 and £250. On her wrist is a £4,345 diamond bracelet
In this shot, a beaming Meghan is seen sporting a colourful Emilia Wickstead ‘Sheila’ boat print dress thought to be worth around £856
As part of her outfit in the show, the mother-of-two sports an Ariel Gordon diamond hex tennis bracelet, worth about £4,345, and a dazzling Cartier ‘Juste un Clou’ necklace thought to be worth an eye-watering £30,800.
The rest of her wardrobe is equally as expensive. In one scene, Meghan is filmed sporting a colourful Emilia Wickstead ‘Sheila’ boat print dress, thought to be worth £858, as she gleefully eyes up a table dressed for afternoon tea.
Other episodes show the Duchess of Sussex in a £1,435 Loro Piana ‘Takao’ sweater, a £311 cashmere sweater and £740 Ralph Lauren ‘Adrien’ shirt.
There even appears to be a royal nod in some of the jewellery the duchess slips into, as she sports a Logan Hollowell ‘Queen’ emerald necklace, thought to be worth almost £8,500.
As part of her new Netflix show, Meghan has vowed ‘share the joys of gardening, friendship, and entertaining’ with guests in the luxurious home of the Cipolla family.
The property features the centerpiece of the estate: a spacious kitchen with Caesartone countertops, estimated to cost about £200 to £550 per square metre.
Behind her, cream-coloured Shaker-style cabinetry and a farmhouse-style sink is punctuated with contrasting black hardware.
Here Meghan is seen chopping up peppers with a £134 Shun classic ‘Blonde 7’ knife while wearing an Anine Bing ‘Mika’ oversized shirt thought to be worth around £191
Meghan, hand in hand with her daughter Lilibet, in the cover photo for her new brand’s website
Alongside other kitchen staples such as copper pans, for around £200 to £600 and her favourite Vitamix E320 Explorian Blender, which is loved by countless other stars such as Miranda Kerr, Gwyneth Paltrow and Zac Efron but will set you back £450.
Donning the back of the stove you see a selection of black walnut chopping boards, which provide an easy aesthetic vibe to the kitchen but each one should cost about £60.
In perfect influencer style Meghan also uses an array of state-of-art Le Creuset cookware, all in matching white. A single pot online retails for about £180-£250.
In one shot, the mother-of-two served a caprese appetizer – adorably made to look like ladybirds.
Sitting on small pieces of bread, the bodies were made of baby tomatoes with small black dots with olive heads and sat on a bed of mozzarella and salad.
They sat on a blue floral patterned plate, which is believed to be the Blue Peony Plate from Earth and Element, a female owned ceramics studio located in Los Angeles. The plate prices start from £32 ($40) for each bread plate and £57 ($70) for a dinner plate.
In another shot, a beautiful salad bowl sits on top of the stunning island bench.
The bowl resembles one found to be from Astier de Villatte – a line of ceramic made in Paris from black terracotta clay finished with a signature milky white glaze.
The websites notes that each piece is handmade and will feature unique variations, with the large Adelaide Salad Bowl retailing for £280 ($345).
Meghan also served guests a dessert that appears to resemble Eton Mess, containing strawberries, cream, mint and a berry coulis.
She serves the pink sweet in a old fashioned ice-cream dish, with similar versions found on Crate and Barrel for an affordable £3 ($3.95) per cup.
Speaking on Monday ahead of her new show’s release, Meghan insisted she was not an influencer, despite her two million-strong following on Instagram.
‘I see myself as an entrepreneur and a female founder and if the brand ends up influential, then that’s great,’ she told People magazine in an interview to promote her ‘make or break’ cookery show.
Meghan is speaking out on the eve of her new Netflix show being released on Tuesday. Pictured is her on the front cover of People magazine
Meghan Markle has today insisted she is not an influencer as part of a deeply personnel interview to promote her ‘make or break’ cookery show on Netflix
Meghan is pictured with husband Prince Harry, who is set to make a brief appearance in the final episode of her new Netflix show
The Sussexes are pictured together in a family picture ahead of the programme’s release
It comes as Meghan opened up about her family life in California and revealed how her five-year-old son, Archie adoringly tells her ‘mama don’t work too hard’.
‘It was the sweetest thing,’ the duchess adds as she recounts the advice from the young prince.
During her interview, Meghan also described how the Sussex title is now ‘part of our love story’ between herself and Prince Harry.
And she said filming her new show had helped her to rediscover her creativity – and that it had reignited ‘a spark’ in Harry’s eye.
Before she met the prince, the former Suits actress had been running The Tig, a blog on food, travel and wellness.
But as her relationship with the Harry deepened, Meghan shut the site down in 2017 before later deleting her Instagram when she joined the royal family fulltime.
She claimed that Harry – who only makes a fleeting appearance in the final episode of ‘With Love, Meghan’ – loved seeing her step back into her creative groove.
‘I see this spark in his eye when he sees me doing the thing that I was doing when he first met me,’ she told People.
