If you press play on With Love, Meghan, Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show that premiered Tuesday, hoping for some up-close-and-personal footage of her husband, Prince Harry, you’ll be waiting for a while. Until just four minutes are left in the show’s final episode, in fact.
With Love, Meghan, which features Meghan cooking, drinking from mason jars, gardening, playing mahjong with friends, and all but losing her ever-loving mind with joy while assembling a green salad with Alice Waters, among other sun-soaked Californian moments, largely leaves both Meghan’s past with the UK’s royal family and the physical presence of her actual family out of the frame. Her children Archie and Lilibet never appear on screen, Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland (No. 1 on Meghan’s American Riviera Orchard jam list, as we learned on the show) and Harry make only brief cameos in the final episode, similar to Harry and Meghan herself popping up in the final installment of Polo, the docuseries they produced with Netflix.
In the eighth episode of the show, “Feels Like Home,” Meghan declares that “Today’s a fun day. I’m just having some friends and family over for a little celebration brunch.” It’s purportedly an al fresco brunch toast in honor of her new business, recently rebranded As Ever after it initially soft-launched as American Riviera Orchard, bearing an ever-hazy product offering and launch date. Meghan announced, along with the new name, that Netflix is now also a partner in the business, and the updated trademark documents now mention streaming video capabilities among the homewares and foodstuffs that the line may offer. However, none of this is mentioned, not even the brand’s name. The brunch is the thing.
“My mom’s coming today, my lovely husband’s coming by,” Meghan says early in the episode.
And, indeed, at around the 31-minute mark, into the frame he saunters, wearing a light blue button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves, tucked into dark jeans, accessorizing with some facial scruff and aviator sunglasses.
While the show’s guests get helpful on-screen chyrons when they enter the Santa Barbara rental property where Meghan filmed the series (for example, “Abigail Spencer, Actor & Friend” for Meghan’s former Suits co-star, whom the Duchess of Sussex casually mentions as “my friend Abby” when she has her over to make salted Branzino), Harry needs no such captioning. We know who this guy is.
Meghan mentions her children a few times throughout the series (Archie caught two trout once, and her eggs are in a carton stamped with a custom “Archie’s Chick Inn” graphic; Lili helped her make this strawberry jam), and when talking about her dog, Guy, who the show is dedicated following the news of his death in January, she briefly mentions the period when she “lived in the UK,” a vague reference to marrying into the royal family in 2018 and then, with Harry, leaving it and moving first to Canada, then California, in 2020. Harry, whom she refers to casually as “H” and “my husband,” garners a few mentions: In the second episode, she alludes to his love of bacon, and in the fifth, reveals that he’s “a great cook” while discussing wanting to make “great formative memories” for her kids with time spent together in the kitchen and enjoying home-cooked meals. An archival home video clip of Harry popping out and startling her to laughter is shown in the fourth episode.
His long-awaited entrance, then, complete with a wave in the direction of the camera, is something of an exclamation point as guests arrive for Meghan’s toast, complete with hand-written menu and “estate honey.” Hey, we know that guy!
Ultimately, the fifth in line to the throne speaks, by our count, 17 words total, beginning with, “Yes, why not?” when his wife offers him “some bubbles.”
“Well done, you did a really great job,” he mumbles into her hair a few moments later, Meghan tucked under his arm as her friends enjoy the spread. “And I love it.”
Then, raising a glass: “To you!”
We’re also treated to a shot of Harry mischievously grinning at the camera while double-fisting strawberries straight into his mouth as part of the closing montage of Meghan’s friends and family saluting her jam al fresco, and the final shot of the closing episode is of the two of them hugging.
While we may not have been welcomed into Meghan and Harry’s actual home for the filming of the show (save that for the 2022 documentary, Harry & Meghan, also on Netflix; the two are nearing the end of a five-year deal), we do accompany Meghan to her home garden a few times throughout the series, and, as always, there’s the elusive “H,” never far from the viewers’ mind, if not actually on screen.
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