Meghan Markle reveals festive preparations for Archie and Lilibet

The Duchess of Sussex promotes her jam and locks lips with Prince Harry as she talks about ’embracing traditions’ in a glitzy new trailer for her festive Netflix show. Meghan Markle, 44, alongside the streaming giant, has released a short trailer celebrating the Christmas season with a special edition of ‘With, Love Meghan’. Describing the festive season as a time ‘to connect with the people we love’, the actress can be seen kissing her husband, Prince Harry.

Meanwhile, the mother-of-two gave the audience a glimpse into how she, the Duke, and their two children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, four, celebrate. Tennis champion Naomi Osaka , chef and judge Tom Colicchio, hospitality expert Will Guidara, philanthropist Kelly McKee Zajfen and longtime friend Lindsay Roth also join Meghan in the festive cheer. ‘Being a hostess or a host is about making people feel comfortable,’ she said, while noting the gift-giving season was about ’embracing tradition’.

In one part of the trailer, Meghan can be seen organising a plate of Christmas-themed cookies alongside milk in a personalised Santa mug with Archie and Lilibet’s names. Elsewhere, she can be seen grinning while painting snowflake sweet treats and preparing crafted advent calendars for them with notes and special gifts. While plugging a trio of her £27 ($36) As Ever jams, she encouraged fans to ‘unwrap the magic’. Similar to the main series of With Love Meghan, the Christmas edition was filmed in Montecito, where the Duchess lives with Harry, Archie and Lilibet.

The show is not filmed in the Sussexes’ California home, but in an $8million (£6.2million) farmhouse owned by Tom and Sherrie Cipolla – philanthropists. The couple live a stone’s throw away from the Duke and Duchess $14.65 million (£11.1million) home, the Decor reported. Meghan previously said in an interview with People in March that she opted not to film in their Montecito home to ‘protect [her family’s safe haven’. The latest edition of With Love, Meghan is due on Netflix on December 3 of this year.

But, the advert isn’t the first time the Duchess has given fans insight into how the Sussexes celebrate big events. In her latest newsletter for As Ever, the 44-year-old shared that she, Harry, 41, and the children harvest sage from their garden for their homemade Thanksgiving feast. Sage is among Markle’s ‘favourite’ flavours, according to the newsletter, and she’s been documenting herself ‘flowering sage’ in her backyard on Instagram over the last year.

‘Those photos you’ve seen this year on our Instagram of Meghan walking through what seems like lavender, with its gorgeous purple hue, actually share the beauty of flowering sage (Fun fact: the varietal is called Santa Barbara),’ the newsletter said. But this has not been a solo project of Markle’s, as it was revealed that the entire family has been involved in the backyard harvest.

She recalled ‘strolls’ through the garden with the family and their two pet dogs and how sage served as the backdrop of their family’s ‘sun-drenched moments’ together. ‘Those strolls, with Archie and Lili running in tow, her husband checking on the bees, Pula chasing the ball with Mia trying to keep up — those were the sun-drenched moments that made an everyday walk something a bit more magical,’ said the newsletter.

‘And that sage, that purple, that scent around the garden, was always there in the background.’ The sweet anecdote from Markle’s family life also served to promote As Ever’s new Sage Honey with Honeycomb, which retails for $32.00 (£24.48) for a 9oz jar on the official website.

The Duchess’s As Ever brand recently was accused of being ‘beige’ and ‘depressing’, despite previously claiming she had to ‘town down’ her style to fit into the Royal Family.