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Calorougu Shark Media at Lo and Welcome to Palace Intrigue Game,
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your host Mark Francis. People had an exclusive interview with
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Megan Mirkle Sussex's part of the lead up to Meghan's
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cooking show. People writes Megan michael Is called up in
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bed with her sleeping five year old son, Prince Archie,
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on a recent winter evening in Montecito. With her phone
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in hand, she catches up on emails finalizing details for
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the launch of her renamed lifestyle brand as Ever and
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her new Netflix series With Love Megan Harry is off
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in Vancouver. Archie begins to wake and tells the Duchess Mama,
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don't work too hard. Meghan Sussex will later recall that
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it was the sweetest thing. Meghan addressed the name change
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of the former American Riviera Orchid. There are tons of
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twists and turns even with the name. I was figuring
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it out in real time. I appreciate everyone who gave
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me the grace to make mistakes and figure it out,
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and also to be forgiving with myself through that. It's
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a learning curve, she says. Megan Sussex discussed her surname.
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It's our shared name as a family, and I guess
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I hadn't recognized how meaningful that would be to me
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until we had children. I love that that is something
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that Archie, Lily, h and I all have together. It
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means a lot to me. The name is part of
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our love story. As for life as a mother, when
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your children get to a certain age, when you're not
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just playing in the sandbox with them, but almost playing
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in your own sandbox again, it's super joyful as a woman,
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a mum and a wife to be able to find
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yourself again in a way that was always present but
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that you maybe couldn't put as much attention on as
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you now can when your kids are a little bit older.
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It's a wonderful feeling. Harry barely appears in the new series.
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One crew member tells people whenever Harry visited set, he
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was always super polite and friendly, but it was clear
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he wanted this to be Megan's moment to shine. The
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subject turned to Meghan's return to lifestyle content. Well, I
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love the tig, but I certainly loved my husband more,
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she says. So that was a choice I made at
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the time, and I wouldn't change that for a second.
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My husband met me when I had the TIG, and
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I see this spark in his eye when he sees
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me doing the thing that I was doing when he
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first met me. I was never really in front of
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the camera like this. Megan previously appeared in front of
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the camera on the TV series Suits and Recalls. It's
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a time capsule for me. I still have the pencil
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skirt from the first episode. That's the one thing I kept.
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I love that it gets a new breath of fresh hair.
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As for the new show, People explains this show isn't
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a traditional stand and stir format, an industry term Megan
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learned during filming to describe most cooking shows. It feels
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as though we're just spending time together, which is what
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it ended up being. I'd make a recipe and say
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everyone try this, and there are certain dishes where you
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just watch everybody flock in. I'd say we've run out
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of spoons. It ended up feeling so communal, and that's
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the spirit of the show. We also learned via a
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ten word sentence that Megan's podcast will return from the
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Ashes this spring. You can tell Meghan is excited about
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the podcast by how quickly the subject turned to Instagram.
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When I was last on social media, boomerang was the thing.
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Instagram stories didn't even exist, so it's been a minute.
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I see myself as an entrepreneur and a female founder,
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and if the brand ends up influential, then that's great.
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More palace in just a moment, Meghan tells us she
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doesn't consider herself a tradwife shorthand for traditional wife. I
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like being able to do a hybrid, but even when
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I get takeout, I will try to plait it beautifully.
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The series is about doing what you can do and
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doing it with love. People's flowing copy reads that outlook
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was first noticed by a friend who visited the set
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came up with the name of the show. Their takeaway
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was that they were so happy to see me as myself,
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Megan says. She said. It's like your lovely to all
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the things you've loved to do, and if you're signing
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off a love letter, it's with love. Megan, it felt right,
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and I loved that my friend helped create it. Receiving
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that kind of feedback from her friends, who have quietly
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supported her through the challenges of recent years, has been
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meaningful for Megan. You have to imagine my friend's experience
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through the past a few years. She says. They spend
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all this time with me at home and that the
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houses or out at dinners for them to see who
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they know to be reflected on screen. It brought them
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a lot of joy. We also learn more about life
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in Montecito. We hosted a little camp because winter break
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was long. We had several days with different families in
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our home and we were able to get to know
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the parents better and all the kids could play. It's
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a dream, but I also know that being part of
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a community means you put effort into it once you
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know us. I think you want us to have the
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same normalcy as parents and for our children as they do,
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despite however unique our situation is. We go to a
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lot of dinners, and not just in people's homes or
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private rooms. We just go into the restaurant. I really
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love that we can just have fun. I have a
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couple of girlfriends up here. These others stay at home
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mums and working women with normal jobs not in the
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public eye. She explains. We went from disconnecting through our
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kids to having girls night out or doing pilates together.
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The profile piece is sure to tell us about one
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of Meghan's new friends, people, writes. One confidant recalls how
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they first connected when Archie and her daughter became fast
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friends at school. Meghan reached out with a voicemail inviting
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her to a play date. You can see that as
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a unit, the friend says, of the Sussexes, they're all
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very connected. After her son's recent surgery, the friend recalls,
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Meghan sent a bouquet of balloons and a stuffed octopus
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from Archie and Lily with a handwritten note that said,
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we thought you could use a hug with eight arms.
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And when Meghan was invited to her low key birthday
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party at home, she showed up despite not knowing anyone else,
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in chatter with the other women about mum's stuff and life.
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Says the pal. It was just fun and natural. She
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was very comfortable, just chilling. We learned about Meghan's yoga pals.
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I go to yoga classes that sometimes have forty to
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fifty people in them just walk in and like hi.
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Of course, at the beginning, that felt like a lot.
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By the way, I think anybody walking into a yoga
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class with fifty people and everyone looks up. It's going
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to feel a little uncomfortable, but now I love it.
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It's the best I had missed it began shares that
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the series was not filmed at her home. I wanted
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to protect that safe haven. We're a close knit family,
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and I love those moments, putting Lily down for a nap,
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having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end
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of the day. Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks
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for the family, and with a crew of eighty plus people,
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that's a lot of people to have in your house.
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I'm up before my kids are, so I'm normally up
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at six thirty, and then I get them up and
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dressed for the day and we go downstairs. I love
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making breakfast for my family. My husband and Archie both
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love fried eggs. There's a lot of bacon around here.
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And then sometimes you don't have a time for all
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that and you just put a frozen waffle in the
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toaster and call it a day. And there's no shame
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in that either. Even before I was a mum, I
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loved being able to urcherr in that way. Some of
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my favorite childhood moments are the meals that my mom
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would make. She'd make a lot of soul food. I
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remember she'd taken a Thai cooking class, so every week
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we had Thai barbecue, chicken and spring rolls. I remember
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those flavors so well, and I want my kids to
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have those same formative memories of the things that I cook.
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We call them Mama meals, and those are the ones
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that I hope they come back to when they're older,
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when they're married and they have their own kids, and
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they go, oh, let's have a Mama meal, And it's
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the same roast chicken I've been making since they were little.
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We learned of Megan's TV favorites. I think all parents
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in this phase with kids with the same age. No,
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it's rinse and repeat. We love shrinking. We just finished
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Black Doves and we're excited for the new season of
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The White Lotus. And with one eye to the future,
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Meghan says, can you imagine this is just the beginning.
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Life is full of surprises, and my gosh, in ten years,
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Arn'tie will be driving and they have it. If you'd
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