Meghan’s new Netflix series in which she offers cooking and home tips arrives next week. She’s just the latest high-profile woman to present herself as a lifestyle guru – and divide opinion in doing so.
The Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show is finally arriving on Netflix on Tuesday, after being pushed back because of the Los Angeles fires. sees her picking flowers, cooking with friends, and looking radiant in a huge, glossy Californian home.
The move into such well-worn domestic-goddess territory saw Meghan instantly dubbed “the millennial Martha Stewart of Montecito” in But of course, this being Meghan – the subject of a vast amount of criticism in the British media specifically and on social media generally – backlash flared the minute the trailer was released. She’s flaunting her wealth, said her critics: tone-deaf. She’s becoming a trad wife: bad feminist. She’s fake, she just wants to sell products, she’s unbearably earnest…