Royal chef slams Meghan Markle’s ‘pretentious’ Netflix series and says she and Prince Harry have become a ‘burden’ on King Charles

Celebrated chef Richard Corrigan has prepared food for the Royal Family, but he finds the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix cookery and lifestyle show unpalatable.

‘I admit I watched With Love, Meghan – it’s a bit pretentious,’ the Irishman tells me. 

‘I don’t like the pretence. California is all very Hollywood, it’s all very samey – Britain is not like that.’

Corrigan, 61, who runs Mayfair restaurants Bentley’s and Corrigan’s, says Prince Harry and Meghan have become a strain on King Charles, who is still being treated for cancer. 

The chef compares them to Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, another American divorcee. Edward abdicated in 1936 so he and Mrs Simpson could be married.

‘I don’t think anyone likes people doing cheap TV.

‘If you’re gonna leave [royal life], buy yourself a nice pad and entertain and enjoy yourself, but don’t become a burden,’ Corrigan says at the Murphia List 2025 at Number Six in Marylebone, celebrating Irish-born hospitality leaders ahead of St Patrick’s Day.

He sympathises with the King’s position. ‘You can never be responsible for who your children marry, and you shouldn’t be – they have to make their way in the world.’ 

‘With Love, Meghan’  is aimed at showing a new side to the Duchess of Sussex

Meghan’s eight-episode series, released on Netflix last week as part of the Sussexes’ reported £85million deal with the US streaming giant

Corrigan, 61, who runs Mayfair restaurants Bentley’s and Corrigan’s, says Prince Harry and Meghan have become a strain on King Charles (pictured)

He adds: ‘The royals are a nice bunch – we all have odd ones in the family.’

This is not the first time that Corrigan has expressed his disappointment with the former actress’s behaviour. 

‘I cooked for the Queen free of charge, of course,’ he said. 

‘And I’ll cook for anyone, but let me just say, some people will have to pay. I’d let [Meghan] in the restaurant, for sure, but the Queen had the red carpet rolled out. Would Meghan? I don’t think so.’

Meghan’s eight-episode series, released on Netflix last week as part of the Sussexes’ reported £85million deal with the US streaming giant, shows the duchess cooking, gardening and hosting while dishing out lifestyle tips to viewers.

But for a few select scenes, it was filmed not at the Sussex’s home but at a rented £6million farmhouse two miles down the road from their mansion in Montecito, California.