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After the well -traced retreat from his British royal family, the new Netflix show of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Mark something brand change for the former star of “costumes”, positioning her as a guru of lifestyle and a domestic goddess.
“With Love, Meghan” consists of eight brilliant episodes, each centered on Meghan hosting a different friend, offering advice and useful tips for being the ultimate hostess, the stove and the housewife.
The series, which was shot in Montecito and famous Living in California, was created Tuesday after its being delayed from his planned release January 15 due to forest fires that devastated the Los Angeles region.
Like most other influencers or content adjacent to the influencer, he is both ambitious and relatable, Meghan presenting the apparent ease with which everyone could achieve a perfect lifestyle.
Returning to this world is a familiar territory for Meghan, who previously directed a successful lifestyle blog titled The Tig, which she closed before marrying Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Here are five things we learned from the first episode of the new series.
The preparation of house allowances almost looks like a ritual for Meghan and she shares her advice for how to welcome them in your home.
You have to think about what is on the side of the bed for them and what is in the bathroom for them, she said, explaining how to be a thoughtful hostess.
In this vein, she is preparing a set of gifts for Daniel Martin – her close friend and long -time makeup artist – who is the guest in the first episode of the series.
She makes her own bath salts from a mixture of Epsom salts, arnica oil, lavender, pink salt and leaves a gap at the top of the pot for a “tea sachet” containing plugs of rose and dried lavender. In this way, dried plants will not be stuck in the drain. “You don’t want to have to clean this your bathtub after taking a good bath,” she says.
For the bedside, Meghan organizes a small bouquet of flowers and makes popcorn of truffles in case his guests want a “end of the evening scribble”.
Accompanied by close -up of yellow flowers, the series begins with Meghan watching the beekeeper Branden Aroyan is asking to open a hive to harvest honey inside.
“It is this reminder of doing something that scares you a little,” she said temporarily. “I try to stay calm because it’s beautiful to be so connected.”
Later, Meghan scratches honey from the hive frame, clearly in admiration in front of the whole process, and the seat to get rid of the honeycomb.
She never really took care of honey before keeping the bees, she said, but now she “appreciates” it so much after learning the process.
… And make candles in beeswax
The series also contains Meghan’s advice for crafts and, in the first episode, which takes the form of candle manufacturing.
She and Martin melt the remains of the beeswax of her hives and pour it into containers with scented oils to make the candles. To keep the wick motionless while the candles take place, she suggests sticking it at the bottom of the container with a little wax, then split the top through a stick of lollipop with a hole, placed on the edge.
They have to work quickly while wax remains at the right temperature. “We would be wonderful in” The Amazing Race “, they quip, referring to the reality TV show in which the teams compete for the race around the world.
Throughout the first episode, Meghan constantly returns to the idea of ”little details” make a difference during cooking, crafts and decoration, and offers advice to the public to raise their own house.
She is preparing a platform of raw people – “There is nothing so sophisticated in a platform of raw people, except his name is rawy”, she says – and makes it “more artistic” by adding small fresh flowers above the vegetables.
When cooking the spaghetti, she gives advice on the best way to ensure it: first put a little sauce on the plate, then twist the spaghetti around a fork so that it becomes a distinct shape rather than a simple piece of pasta. She then finished the look with tomatoes from the sauce, basil and a pinch of cheese.
And when cooking a cake, Meghan uses a serrated bread knife to even take each layer out before assembling them. Instead of using a piping bag for the butter cream, its “hacking” consists in using a plastic ziploc bag with one of the lower corners.
In this way, she kills the butter cream and raspberry jam in superimposed spirals between each layer to obtain a swirling frosting effect and make a “beautiful inside” cake.
The raspberry jam that Meghan uses to decorate the cake is homemade using bays in her garden, she says.
Viewers who continue in episode two of the show will learn that there are rows of berries in the Meghan garden which produce fruit baskets when ripe.
She then continues by revealing that her favorite reserve is apple butter because her grandmother did so that it is “sentimental”; She hopes that her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, will associate her own jam with soft smells that cross the house when they return from school.
To originally launch his lifestyle brand in April 2024, Meghan sent homemade strawberry jars to influencers and friends, each labeled with a number from one to 50.
But labeling jars of jam has made that “people … take it very personally,” Meghan told actress and writer Mindy Kaling, who is the guest in the episode two.
“It was not a classification. It was just “let me share them,” she said-adding, however, that she saved the pot labeled one of the 50 for her mom.