With Love, Meghan: What we learnt from second series of Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle show

The second season of the Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle show With Love, Meghan, has been released.

Over the eight-episode series, which features celebrity guests including US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye's Tan France, Meghan opens up about what she misses most about the UK, the meal she cooked on the night Prince Harry proposed, and who said "I love you" first.

The premiere of the second series comes two weeks after Harry and Meghan announced a watered-down deal with the streaming giant Netflix.

Despite Harry not making a cameo in the show, Meghan does give some insight into her life in California with the prince, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.

Here is what we learnt from the duchess.

Harry saying 'I love you'

In one episode, with British fashion designer Tan France, Meghan says it was Harry who first said he loved her.

"He told me," she says before blushing and flicking her ponytail with her hand and saying: "She's still got it."

She adds that she fell in love with him while camping in Botswana, the pair's third date.

"We met in Botswana, and we camped for five days together," she says, adding: "You really get to know someone when you are in a little tent."

Missing one particular UK radio station

After first getting married, Meghan had planned to apply for British citizenship. But the pair later moved to the US after stepping down from their roles as working royals.

In episode three, with Tan France, Meghan admits one of the things she "misses the most" about the UK, after leaving five years ago.

She says: "Honestly, one of the things I miss the most about the UK is the radio station called Magic."

To which France quips: "Magic FM. Wow! Now, sorry to say this to you publicly, but that's such a grandma station."

A laughing Meghan replies: "I'll be that grandma."

Duchess 'not well' when away from her children

Later in episode three, when the pair are crafting aprons for their children, Meghan says she "always wanted to be a mum", which is now "better than she expected" after the birth of Archie, in 2019, and Lilibet - who they call Lili for short - in 2021.

Sympathising with France, who explained he gets heartbroken if away from his two young children for more than a couple of days, the duchess says the longest she and Harry have ever been without seeing their children is almost three weeks.

"I was... not well," Meghan says about the separation.

In Harry's 2023 memoir, Spare, he wrote of the "difficult days" after Queen Elizabeth II's death and how he and Meghan were separated from Archie and Lili for "longer than we'd ever been".

He said when they reunited at their home in Montecito, "for days and days we couldn't stop hugging the children, couldn't let them out of our sight".

'Terrible' chicken

In the fourth episode with American chef and TV host Samin Nosrat, Meghan reveals she tried to make a roast chicken on the night Harry proposed in 2017, but it didn't turn out how she expected.

"I will say when I made a roast chicken for my now-husband I was still having a lot of challenges with the conversion of Celsius and Fahrenheit. I made a horrible chicken that night. I mean, truly terrible," she says.

"The point is you can make a terrible chicken and someone is still going to appreciate the thought."

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Harry and Meghan's wedding menu

When chatting with British chef Clare Smyth, who cooked the food at Harry and Meghan's Windsor wedding in 2018, the duchess says "everyone still talks" about the meal - which included roast chicken.

"Remember, we had the map where everything was sourced? We really wanted people to appreciate where every ingredient was coming from," she says.

The three-Michelin-starred chef revealed that she also devised a special fried chicken recipe to serve as a "late-night bite" at the wedding, which she now serves as an "off-menu" item at her restaurant Core.

"Our off-menu item is the fried chicken at Core," Meghan says, adding: "If that's my claim to fame. I'm thrilled."

Archie and Lili use both British and American words

In another part of the sixth episode, Smyth says she always has to think about the American names for certain foods, including eggplant (aubergine) and cilantro (coriander).

The duchess then says: "My kids will say a little bit of both, but never cooking terms, because I guess papa is not cooking as much.

"They both say zebra instead of zee-bra."

Her time on Deal Or No Deal

In the episode with Chrissy Teigen, Meghan reminisces about her time working on the US version of the game show Deal Or No Deal as a briefcase model.

Teigen, who is married to singer John Legend, also appeared on the show and described it as a "really important, funny" chapter in their lives.

"I remember being a back-up girl," Teigen says, before Megan laughs, adding: "I remember us all standing in line to get our lashes put on.

"I was just so happy to get health insurance... How far we have come."

The duchess appeared on the show in 2006 and 2007, before landing the role she is most known for, Rachel Zane in the legal drama series, Suits.

'PH 40' hats and portable family photos

In one of the later episodes in the series, Meghan packs a bag for a trip to Malibu, to see her friend and pilates instructor, Heather Dorak.

Explaining what she is putting in her bag, the duchess shows a baseball cap with 'PH 40' on the front, which she says she made for Harry's 40th birthday last year.

She goes on to say she "always, always brings photos of my family" when she goes away, holding up a small selection of three framed black and white photos.

She says: "I went on a girls' trip recently and my girlfriends were like 'Oh my God, that's so sweet, you keep it by your bed!'

"You could just look at your phone, but I am just sentimental in that way."

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