Party at Meghan Markle’s! Duchess’s guests on Netflix series enjoy cocktails, champagne and beer as she plays the perfect hostess

Meghan Markle proved she was just like the rest of us as she enjoyed a tipple now and again while cooking and enjoying the meals she’d made in her much anticipated Netflix series.

Showing how to be the perfect hostess, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, supplied a range of alcoholic beverages for her guests throughout the eight episodes of With Love, Meghan, which dropped today on the streaming service.

From drinking mimosas with best friends Kelly Zajfen and Suits co-star Abigail Spencer to sipping wine alongside chef Alice Waters, Prince Harry’s wife ensured her visitors were having a great time – all with the help of a little booze every so often.

But celebrity friend and The Office star Mindy Kaling appeared slightly taken back by the offer of an alcoholic drink when Meghan declared let’s ‘have a little beverage’ alongside their frittata in episode two.

‘I like just a wink of fruit flavour in my bubbles,’ explained the Duchess, before offering the actress an array of juices that could be added to the champagne.

‘I think this is the earliest that I’ve had alcohol in a long time,’ replied Mindy, to which Meghan joked: ‘Oh, welcome to Montecito.’

‘Am I going to get hammered?’ a concerned Mindy questioned – but the Duchess was quick to reassure her, adding: ‘No, that’s why I’m feeding you.’

Another amusing boozy moment came when Meghan and chef Roy Choi enjoyed tempura fried chicken paired with champagne in episode three. 

Meghan Markle proved she was just like the rest of us as she enjoyed a tipple now and again while cooking and enjoying the meals she’d made in her much anticipated Netflix series

‘Okay, since [the fried chicken] has time to do it’s thing… Sorry, did you just say I should pop a bottle? Okay. Yes chef,’ joked the Duchess.

‘Yes, champagne… I am going to risk my own embarrassment because I turn bright red when I drink, so… but for champagne and fried chicken, I’m down,’ replied a delighted Roy.

‘Just a little bit,’ explained Meghan before effortlessly opening the bottle of alcohol, to which the chef praised as ‘nice’. 

‘I may not be able to fry chicken, but I can open a bottle of champagne,’ said Prince Harry’s wife after receiving the compliment about her bottle-opening skills.

Elsewhere in episode three, Meghan showed off a recipe that included the use of beer and asked director Michael Steed if he would like some of the drink.

‘We’re working hard over here,’ joked the Duchess before pouring two glasses of beer for both herself and the director.

‘We really are’, replied Michael before Meghan added: ‘Working hard or hardly working?’ ‘That’s good’, she continued as she tried the beer.

To finish off her series, the former working royal hosted a brunch outside with her close friends and family members – including Prince Harry and her mother Doria Ragland – in which she shared several dishes and supplied champagne for a toast.

Showing how to be the perfect hostess, the Duchess of Sussex , 43, supplied a range of alcoholic beverages for her guests throughout the eight episodes of With Love, Meghan, which dropped today on the streaming service

From drinking mimosas with best friends Kelly Zajfen and Suits co-star Abigail Spencer (pictured) to sipping wine alongside chef Alice Waters, Prince Harry’s wife ensured her visitors were having a great time – all with the help of a little booze every so often

Meghan enjoyed a glass of wine with chef Alice Waters during the last episode of her series

She closed the last of eight episodes with a speech to her guests, saying: ‘I just want to raise a glass to you guys. 

‘This feels like a new chapter that I’m so excited that I’m able to share and I’ve been able to learn from all of you. So I just thank you for all the love and support.

‘And here we go, there’s a business! All of that is part of that creativity that I’ve missed so much, so thank you for loving me so much and celebrating with me.’

Meghan was also seen speaking to Harry about the party she organised for the show: ‘It’s good, right?’ He said: ‘Well done. You did a great job.’ Meghan added: ‘Thank you.’ And Harry then said: ‘I love it.’

Meanwhile, the Duchess’ pasta-cooking technique was unveiled in the first episode her series – and it might leave more than a few native Italians screaming ‘Mamma Mia!’. 

Ten minutes into ‘With Love, Meghan’ saw Meghan tackling a dish called ‘skillet spaghetti’, which she told viewers she regularly cooks for Prince Harry and their children.

The show’s first episode, titled ‘Hello, Honey!’, saw the former working royal reveal to her close friend, make-up artist Daniel Martin, how the US twist on the Italian staple is a favourite with Archie, five, and Lilibet, three. 

While there’s no expense spared in the utensils, the Duchess used a Le Creuset dish, beloved of the middle classes on both sides of the Pond, and a cooker that’s thought to have cost around £15,000, Italians might wince at the technique. 

Elsewhere in episode three, Meghan showed off a recipe that included the use of beer and asked director Michael Steed if he would like some of the drink

To finish off her series, the former working royal hosted a brunch outside with her close friends and family members – including Prince Harry and her mother Doria Ragland – in which she shared several dishes and supplied champagne for a toast

Traditional methods might see pasta submerged in a large pan of salted boiling water, but here, the Duchess simply poured ‘three cups’ of boiling water onto the spaghetti and then placed a lid on it. 

One Italian on X suggested that adding boiling water from a kettle onto ‘raw’ pasta went against ‘the basics’ of Italian cookery.  

Another moment that might besmirch an entire European nation? The Duchess called the popular Italian pasta ‘noodles’ more than once while prepping the meal. 

And when Parmesan cheese was grated to finish the dish, Meghan pronounced it ‘Parmigian’, a slightly tweaked version of the Italian word, Parmigiana. 

Meghan said: ‘When I make this, I make it for my family’ before clarifying ‘not that my children are eating heaps of noodles but I will make enough so that I can put leftovers in their lunchbox.’ 

Describing how the cherished dish harks back to her days of creating lifestyle content for her previous website The Tig, she said: ‘This skillet spaghetti would have been on there’.

To make the meal, Meghan removed the dry pasta from a jar and preceded to lay it into the dish, which had feta and cherry tomatoes already in a layer on the bottom of it.  

There’s scant detail on measurements, except to say ‘an entire pack of spaghetti’ is used – and ‘three and a half cups of boiling water, give or take’ should be added. 

Pasta disaster? Meghan explains her ‘skillet spaghetti ‘to her best friend and celebrity make-up artist Daniel Martin early on in the first episode of new Netflix series With Love, Meghan 

After adding lots of lemon zest, she told viewers: ‘You just pour boiling water on top and that’s it’. When the cooking is almost done, chard and kale are added. 

The ensuing dish, which looks delicious, saw Meghan again calling the pasta noodles, as she says she’ll leave it for ‘four or five minutes until the noodle is done, al dente…’

Describing the dish when it’s finished, Meghan said: ‘It’s like that Beyonce song… Cosy’. 

It’s not the only time Meghan cooked up a pasta storm in the series, making a rigatoni dish in episode four with her friend Delfina Blaquier, who is married to Prince Harry’s close friend Nacho Figueras.

The duchess filmed the series in a lavish reality TV mansion that’s just two miles from the £11million Montecito property she shares with Prince Harry and their children.

The mansion where the Netflix show was filmed last year, an idyllic $8million (£5million) estate nestled within a gated community, boasts eight acres of avocado trees and lemon groves and is owned by Montecito’s influential Cipolla family. 

Tom and Sherrie Cipolla, fixtures in the high society circles of the American Riviera, are both in their 70s. 

They are prominent philanthropists with a $20million property portfolio, which includes a physical therapy practice with over $1.3million in annual sales.

Their 4,500 sq ft home, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms, has stunning French doors that open to a patio, lawn, and breath-taking mountain views.

Meghan vowed to ‘share the joys of gardening, friendship, and entertaining’ with guests in the luxurious home of the Cipolla family.