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Meghan Markle is releasing a Netflix holiday special. The Duchess of Sussex announced Monday that a special episode of her lifestyle series With Love, Meghan, will arrive on the streaming platform in just a few weeks. “Embrace traditions and make new ones this holiday season. With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration arrives December 3rd on @netflix,” she shared to her Instagram account. Markle, 44, also teased a look at her festive holiday table in the post, wearing a green dress and looking over what appears to be a dinner table with candles, glassware, ribbons, and greenery. Netflix said in a statement: “This December, join Meghan in Montecito, California, for a magical holiday celebration as she shares how she likes to make this time with family and friends especially memorable and meaningful. Together, friends and family deck the halls, create holiday feasts, craft heartfelt gifts, and share lots of laughs — and give you simple how-tos to follow at home.” Markle, Prince Harry, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, moved to the California coastal town in 2020, and her show is filmed at a studio just down the road from the family’s $14.65 million mansion. Last month, the former Suits actress teased that the new holiday special would be “a really good one” while speaking at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, DC. She added that in the special, “lots of gift wrapping techniques” will be included. “You guys know I used to teach gift wrapping at Paper Source and advanced gift wrapping,” Markle said. “So you know, all of those things that you do as an auditioning actor. That’s not the full circle I was expecting, but here we are.” Ahead of the holiday season, the duchess’s lifestyle brand, As ever, also released a festive collection last month, featuring candles, flower sprinkles, and fruit spreads, which Oprah Winfrey included on her annual Favorite Things list. Markle’s reported $100 million partnership with Netflix is expected to launch her return to acting after an eight-year hiatus. She said at the summit: “What we’ve designed is being able to have so much robust support in year one, where you have the show complementing the brand or content and commerce or meeting, and then still enabling me to have autonomy, to build out my own team and scale it in the way that I envision.” With Love, Meghan premiered in March. The eight-part series features Markle share hosting tips and cooking with her celebrity friends like Chrissy Teigen and Mindy Kaling. The show’s second season aired in August and received mixed reviews, with The Independent’s Helen Coffey saying the show was like being gaslit by a multiillionaire.
