‘Working mom’ Meghan drops trailer advising parents to ‘find the fun’ in breakfast

“It doesn’t need to be big for a party. It’s how you can incorporate these practices every day.”

At the start of the trailer, the Duchess says: “This is about connecting with friends and just learning.”

The show will combine “practical how-tos and candid conversation with friends, new and old”, according to promotional material.

“Meghan shares personal tips and tricks, embracing playfulness over perfection, and highlights how easy it can be to create beauty, even in the unexpected,” it says.

“She and her guests roll up their sleeves in the kitchen, the garden, and beyond, and invite you to do the same.”

Guests include chef Roy Choi, actress and writer Mindy Kaling, and farm-to-table pioneer Alice Waters.

In an interview with People magazine to promote the show, the Duchess said it was “super joyful” making the series, and that it was particularly meaningful for Prince Harry and her friends to see her return to her lifestyle blogging roots.

“You have to imagine my friends’ experience through the past few years,” she said. “They spend all this time with me at home and at their houses or out at dinners. For them to see who they know to be reflected on screen, it brought them a lot of joy.”

Meghan, whose two young children have appeared on her social media, added: “As a woman, a mom and a wife, to be able to find yourself again … is a wonderful feeling.”

Emphasising that viewers should not strive for perfection, but simply aim to be “doing what you can do and doing it with love”, she revealed she liked to present Chinese takeaway food in an aesthetically pleasing way. “Even when I get takeout, I will try to plate it beautifully,” she said.

The Duchess of Sussex has said that filming the Netflix series allowed her to show her children the realities of being a “working mom”.

Meghan revealed that the Duke and their children visited her on set.

She told People: “I loved that my children were able to watch me working and see the balance of that and understand what Mama does and is working to create and share. It was really special because up until then, they hadn’t seen me at work.”

The Duchess said the development of her associated business venture, As Ever, set to launch in the spring, would also be educational for her daughter.

“Being able to have my own little girl, as I’ve spent so much of my life championing the rights of girls and women, and to be able to see this as a multi-generational story – Archie is, of course, included in that, my husband is, of course, included in that – but I love the heritage feeling of it and knowing this is something that I can create in front of my daughter and teach her what it’s like to be a working mom,” she said.

“This is something that hopefully can be part of her legacy too.”

The interview is billed as the Duchess’s “most intimate in years”.

Meghan shut down her previous lifestyle brand, The Tig, when it became clear her relationship with Prince Harry was serious.

It has been five years since the couple walked away from their roles as working members of the royal family in acrimony, but Meghan admitted that she cherished their royal titles, given to them by Elizabeth II on their wedding day.

The Sussex name was “part of our love story”, she said.

“It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognised how meaningful that would be to me until we had children. I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”

The Duchess insisted that she and Prince Harry lived normal lives in Montecito, California and were part of the community by going out for dinner, joining public yoga classes and inviting “school moms” and their children over for play dates.

Offering a glimpse of the domestic idyll she will soon promote, she said she loved making fried eggs and bacon for her husband and children.

The Duchess claimed that her newfound creativity had allowed her and Prince Harry to relive their “honeymoon period” because he loved watching her scribbling notes and newsletters and enjoying the development process.

“We’ve been such a close team for so long that we’re just in it beat by beat with each other,” she said. “And I love that. To be able to be a female founder and do that with my husband’s support means everything.”

She said they enjoyed “day dates” in the afternoons when they had lunch together, as well as “nightcap recaps” in the evenings when they enjoyed a drink and made lunch boxes as they chatted about their days.

They also love television shows including Shrinking, Black Doves and The White Lotus.

The Duchess said she chose to film her show on a nearby estate because she wanted to protect the “safe haven” of her family home.

“We’re a close-knit family, and I love those moments – putting Lili down for a nap, having lunch together, having sacred time together at the end of the day,” she said.

“Our kitchen is where Mama just cooks for the family, and with a crew of 80-plus people, that’s a lot of people to have in your house.”

The promotional material comes after it emerged the Duchess’s new Netflix show will be reviewed in advance by a journalist who recently wrote about the “lessons in success, resilience and grace” we can learn from Meghan.

Sophia A. Nelson, who writes for Forbes magazine, is among six or seven journalists hand-picked to watch the first few episodes of With Love, Meghan, ahead of its release.

Nelson revealed on social media she was “very excited” to have been chosen.

In a now-deleted post, she revealed that her review would be published on Monday afternoon after she had watched “a few advance episodes”.

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It is unlikely she will have anything negative to say. The journalist, who has written about her own mixed-race heritage in the context of Meghan’s, wrote a piece for Forbes in January in which she said that like many women of colour, she was “proud of her global impact and celebrity”.

She said she was “deeply disappointed” with how the Duchess had been treated by the “awful” royal family and British media.

“She is truly a remarkable woman, with so much good ahead of her,” Nelson wrote, before listing the five life lessons we can learn from this “successful millennial bi-racial woman, turned actress, and media powerbroker”.

They included practising “the power of the pause”, “leaning into love and healing” and not “dimming your light”.

The Daily Telegraph, London

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