‘Quite mad and a little bit sad’: Meghan’s ‘insipid’ Netflix Christmas special is panned by critics

Ms Singh also said that the show reminded her of Pippa Middleton’s advice in her 2012 book Celebrate, which ‘recommended serving turkey on Christmas Day and going stargazing at night-time because that’s when it’s dark’.

The journalist added: ‘Meghan’s tips are imparted in an easy-breezy manner as she waxes lyrical about family traditions and spending the holiday with loved ones, determinedly ignoring the elephants in the room.’
Harry, who featured briefly in the first season of With Love, Meghan but not the second, makes his cameo near the end, when he walks into the kitchen while Meghan and visiting restaurateur Tom Colicchio are cooking.
Ms Singh wrote: ‘He is appalled at the sight of a beetroot, pickled vegetable, black olive, anchovy and fennel salad (“Oh, wow, that’s like the anti-salad,” he says) and who can blame him? Just give the poor man a sausage roll and let him have a happy Christmas.’
Another one-star review was published by the Independent today, whose deputy culture and lifestyle editor Hannah Ewens said the episode is ‘not fun, enjoyable or even aspirational’ and a ‘predictably insipid festive special’.

She added: ‘Now I like Christmas and I don’t have one of these weird royalist vendettas against Meghan Markle – I think she seems like a lovely, sweet woman!