March 8, 2025
Meghan Markle is just a regular mom like you, making fruit platters for breakfast
In the Telegraph, Camila Tominey writes: If the Sussexes really were genuine working parents, they’d have a better idea of what it actually entails.
It hasn't been a good week for Meghan...but is it ever?
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In the Telegraph, Camila Tominey writes: If the Sussexes really were genuine working parents, they’d have a better idea of what it actually entails.
It hasn't been a good week for Meghan...but is it ever?
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Calorougus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Injury Game,
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your host, Mark Francis. In The Telegraph, Camilla Tomedy writes,
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if Megan is an ordinary working mother, I'm mother to racer.
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If the Sussexis really were genuine working parents, they'd have
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a better idea of what it actually entails. Tomeny explains
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it happens to all female celebrities with an Instagram following
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once they have children. As well as becoming mothers, these
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screen stars turned influencers become self styled professors of parenting.
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It's like an open university course for women who do
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not know how to chop up fruit or have never
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encouraged a child to dip a carrot bat on into
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a pot of hummus? Did you know that you can
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make crudities out of cucumber and peppers? No, we didn't, Megan.
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Thank goodness you are here to guide us through this
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vegetable minefield. I'm not sure there are many working mothers
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out there who have the time to watch a series
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telling viewers how to are a good kids party, how
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to have girls brunch in the garden, and how to
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be present let alone re enacted on Planet Megan, where
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chefs make the food, stylists pick the wardrobe, hairstylists tease
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the locks, and make up artists perfect the smudged eyeliner.
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Working mothers bake for kartchure, salt baked fish, and single
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skillet spaghetti. They also craft mixed drinks in mason jars,
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learning Marjong, and indulging in their love of flower arranging.
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Back in the real world, bird's eye fish fingers are
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served with a beaker of squash. Marjong is the takeaway
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you call when there's nothing left in the fridge. No
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actual working mother would ever utter the words it's a
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real delight being able to be a present parent. There's
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nothing delightful about working from home when the children are there.
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Just ask anyone who endured the horror of COVID remote schooling.
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If the Sussexes really were genuine working parents, they'd have
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a better idea of what it actually entails. Postponed sex
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due to exhaustion and endless bargaining over the school run,
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repeated arguments about who is making dinner, patty squabbles involving
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loaded dishwashers, and never ending washing piles. In the New Statesman,
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Rachel Cook asks, this isn't her house. Are these people
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her friends? Can she really cook, or guard, nor do
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any of the things she coos about him? With love?
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Megan Rachel writes in the first episode, Daniel is visiting.
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Daniel is an old friend. He and Meghan met on
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the set of Suits when he did her makeup, and
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she wants to spoil him by prepping the guest room. Hmm,
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what might this involve exactly? If I have someone to
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stay ideally never I check for dust with a finger,
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and then I chuck a clean towel on the bed.
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Dada job done. For a few moments, I made them
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relax on, said bed myself. The better to admire the
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stain on the ceiling. But Megan has bigger ideas. What's
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by the bed for them? She asks, And no, she
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doesn't mean a bucket into which a guest may vomit
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quietly after a full day of flowers strewn doughnuts and
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syrupy platitudes about connectedness. Thank you for loving me so much,
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she announces in episode eight to a group that has
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been invited over for yet another of a crudet's platters.
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Far better to make a big jar of bath salts
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or if this seems laborious, Yes, it does. A few
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no faf late night snacks. Simply open a packet of
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peanut butter pretzels, tip a few of them into another
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small and non branded bag, and then customize it with
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a hand written label and a bow. Honestly, I'm not joking.
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Later she'll also tell us how to blow up balloons.
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Rachel Cook adds, I think she does know Daniel. Together
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they made a culinary abomination, she calls single skillet spaghetti.
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But about the other friends who drop by? Unless certain
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you're so tall, she says to her palat Alfina, a
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landscape architect, which I'm afraid did suggest to me a
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certain lack of familiarity. Alice Waters, the celebrated Californian Cook,
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appears at looking startled as well. She might be in
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this land of Let's pretend how on earth had they
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got Waters onto this stage set the house where a
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series is filmed. It's not Megan's. Was it a kidnap situation?
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Or did they bribe her with the promise of carrot
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top pesto and heirloom charred When Roy Choi and other
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chef is about to rock up, Megan whispers queerly. We're
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not friends yet, but we're going to my favorite friend. However,
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is Mindy Kayling, best known as one of the stars
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of the Office. According to Megan, Kling is a mum friend,
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and with this in mind, she's coming over to learn
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how to stage a children's garden party. In Britain and
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perhaps in most of America, children's parties involved in excess
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of fat and sugar, and maybe a trip to a
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soft play area. But again, Meghan has different ideas. Forget
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sausages on sticks, what about art Seene Christini or a
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rainbow made from fresh fruit used slice bananas for the clouds.
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Does Mindy know how to throw such a party? Meghan
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inquires as they begin. No, but the woman I hired does.
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Mindy replies a comment that put me on high alert.
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Was Kailing going to be lightly satirical throughout? Oh my god?
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She was. You may be wondering what Buckingham Palace thinks
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of all this, after the Netflix series dropped the first
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statement from Buckingham read as Royal Colonel of the Queen's
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own Yeomanry, the Duchess has visited troops based at Warcorp
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training center in Cumbria. The duchess in question was Sophie
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Palace intrigu right back. In the second episode with Love Megan,
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Mindy Keyley recalls the excitement of receiving the jam in
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the post, saying, when I received that in the mail,
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a box of your preserves, it was probably one of
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the most glamorous moments in my life. However, she confesses
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she became fixated on the numbering system as the jars
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were numbered one through fifty. I looked at the label
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and it said they were like fifty, and I, of course,
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having a very herachical person, was like, who are these
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other fifty? Does having a lower number make me more special?
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Or does having a higher number make me more special?
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She asks, began laughing and closing her eyes. Responds, oh
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my god. Kayling presses further, asking whether she had been ranked,
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Prompting began to insist I did not think about it.
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It was not a ranking. It was just let me
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share them, and then people started to take it personally.
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Kling jokes people like me. She admits to checking Instagram
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to see who else received jars and zooming in on
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the numbers, a confession that has likely resonated with many viewers.
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Meghan clarifies that the first jar went to her mother,
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Dorria Ragland, because it felt like the right thing to do.
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Kaeling playfully ads that many people wanted to taste her jam,
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but she refused, telling them get your own jar and
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