Netflix’s new show With Love, Meghan is Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex‘s attempt to rebrand herself as an aspirational lifestyle guru in the mold of Martha Stewart, Joanna Gaines, or the Pioneer Woman. All of these are wealthy women who have built retail empires with TV shows offering everyday women a double whammy of escapism and homemaking hacks. Unfortunately, With Love, Meghan won’t make you feel like you’re watching the arrival of the millennial Ina Garten, but rather the second coming of Marie Antoinette.
Throughout the eight episodes of With Love, Meghan, we see one of the most famous women in the world play at feeding chickens, harvesting food, and homemaking in a way that quite simply reminded me of stories about the doomed French queen swanning about her bespoke rustic cottage in peasant garb for kicks. Sure, historians debate whether or not Marie Antoinette did that for
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