Meghan Markle is just a regular mom like you, making fruit platters for breakfast

0:03 Calorougus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Game, your host, Mark Francis. In The Telegraph, Camilla Tomedy writes, if Megan is an ordinary working mother, I'm mother to racer. If the Sussexis really were genuine working parents, they'd have a better idea of what it actually entails. Tomeny explains it happens to all female celebrities with an Instagram following once they have children. As well as becoming mothers, these screen stars turned influencers become self styled professors of parenting. It's like an open university course for women who do not know how to chop up fruit or have never encouraged a child to dip a carrot bat on into a pot of hummus? Did you know that you can make crudities out of cucumber and peppers? No, we didn't, Megan.

0:51 Thank goodness you are here to guide us through this vegetable minefield. I'm not sure there are many working mothers out there who have the time to watch a series telling viewers how to are a good kids party, how to have girls brunch in the garden, and how to be present let alone re enacted on Planet Megan, where chefs make the food, stylists pick the wardrobe, hairstylists tease the locks, and make up artists perfect the smudged eyeliner. Working mothers bake for kartchure, salt baked fish, and single skillet spaghetti. They also craft mixed drinks in mason jars, learning Marjong, and indulging in their love of flower arranging. Back in the real world, bird's eye fish fingers are served with a beaker of squash. Marjong is the takeaway you call when there's nothing left in the fridge. No actual working mother would ever utter the words it's a real delight being able to be a present parent. There's nothing delightful about working from home when the children are there.

1:41 Just ask anyone who endured the horror of COVID remote schooling. If the Sussexes really were genuine working parents, they'd have a better idea of what it actually entails. Postponed sex due to exhaustion and endless bargaining over the school run, repeated arguments about who is making dinner, patty squabbles involving loaded dishwashers, and never ending washing piles. In the New Statesman, Rachel Cook asks, this isn't her house. Are these people her friends? Can she really cook, or guard, nor do any of the things she coos about him? With love? Megan Rachel writes in the first episode, Daniel is visiting. Daniel is an old friend. He and Meghan met on the set of Suits when he did her makeup, and she wants to spoil him by prepping the guest room. Hmm, what might this involve exactly? If I have someone to stay ideally never I check for dust with a finger, and then I chuck a clean towel on the bed.

2:31 Dada job done. For a few moments, I made them relax on, said bed myself. The better to admire the stain on the ceiling. But Megan has bigger ideas. What's by the bed for them? She asks, And no, she doesn't mean a bucket into which a guest may vomit quietly after a full day of flowers strewn doughnuts and syrupy platitudes about connectedness. Thank you for loving me so much, she announces in episode eight to a group that has been invited over for yet another of a crudet's platters. Far better to make a big jar of bath salts or if this seems laborious, Yes, it does. A few no faf late night snacks. Simply open a packet of peanut butter pretzels, tip a few of them into another small and non branded bag, and then customize it with a hand written label and a bow. Honestly, I'm not joking.

3:15 Later she'll also tell us how to blow up balloons. Rachel Cook adds, I think she does know Daniel. Together they made a culinary abomination, she calls single skillet spaghetti. But about the other friends who drop by? Unless certain you're so tall, she says to her palat Alfina, a landscape architect, which I'm afraid did suggest to me a certain lack of familiarity. Alice Waters, the celebrated Californian Cook, appears at looking startled as well. She might be in this land of Let's pretend how on earth had they got Waters onto this stage set the house where a series is filmed. It's not Megan's. Was it a kidnap situation? Or did they bribe her with the promise of carrot top pesto and heirloom charred When Roy Choi and other chef is about to rock up, Megan whispers queerly. We're not friends yet, but we're going to my favorite friend. However, is Mindy Kayling, best known as one of the stars of the Office. According to Megan, Kling is a mum friend, and with this in mind, she's coming over to learn how to stage a children's garden party. In Britain and perhaps in most of America, children's parties involved in excess of fat and sugar, and maybe a trip to a soft play area. But again, Meghan has different ideas. Forget sausages on sticks, what about art Seene Christini or a rainbow made from fresh fruit used slice bananas for the clouds.

4:29 Does Mindy know how to throw such a party? Meghan inquires as they begin. No, but the woman I hired does. Mindy replies a comment that put me on high alert. Was Kailing going to be lightly satirical throughout? Oh my god? She was. You may be wondering what Buckingham Palace thinks of all this, after the Netflix series dropped the first statement from Buckingham read as Royal Colonel of the Queen's own Yeomanry, the Duchess has visited troops based at Warcorp training center in Cumbria. The duchess in question was Sophie Palace intrigu right back. In the second episode with Love Megan, Mindy Keyley recalls the excitement of receiving the jam in the post, saying, when I received that in the mail, a box of your preserves, it was probably one of the most glamorous moments in my life. However, she confesses she became fixated on the numbering system as the jars were numbered one through fifty. I looked at the label and it said they were like fifty, and I, of course, having a very herachical person, was like, who are these other fifty? Does having a lower number make me more special?

5:29 Or does having a higher number make me more special? She asks, began laughing and closing her eyes. Responds, oh my god. Kayling presses further, asking whether she had been ranked, Prompting began to insist I did not think about it. It was not a ranking. It was just let me share them, and then people started to take it personally. Kling jokes people like me. She admits to checking Instagram to see who else received jars and zooming in on the numbers, a confession that has likely resonated with many viewers. Meghan clarifies that the first jar went to her mother, Dorria Ragland, because it felt like the right thing to do. Kaeling playfully ads that many people wanted to taste her jam, but she refused, telling them get your own jar and they have it. Email us addresses The Palace Intrigue at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice and leave us a review of five stars. If you're enjoying the show, don't forget.

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