A British Michelin-starred chef who catered Meghan and Harry’s wedding has hailed the Duchess of Sussex’s kitchen skills.
Clare Smyth, the renowned chef behind Core, a restaurant in Notting Hill, London that boasts three Michelin stars, is scheduled to make an appearance in the latest season of the duchess’s Netflix series, With Love, Meghan.
Ahead of the release of the second instalment of the show, which will air on Tuesday, Smyth told The Times that Meghan is ‘pretty good at filleting a fish’.
Having taught the duchess how to make a poached halibut in a forthcoming episode, she says: ‘Meghan is actually really good at cooking and she’s creative, with a good palate.’
Smyth was first hired by Harry and Meghan to cook for 200 guests at their private wedding reception at Frogmore House in Windsor back in 2018.
She says Meghan later ‘personally reached out’ to ask her to be on the Netflix show, and she flew to California last year to film.
The Northern Irish chef became the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars when she presided over Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant on Royal Hospital Road, and was named the ‘world’s best female chef’ by the World’s 50 Best.
The Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show, where she hosts guests in a rented house near her Montecito mansion for privacy reasons, will return on August 26 – just as Netflix loosened its ties with the Sussexes.
A British Michelin chef who catered Meghan and Harry’s wedding has hailed the Duchess of Sussex’s kitchen skills
Meghan Markle and British chef Clare Smyth in With Love, Meghan
Clare Smyth, who runs Core, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill, London, is set to appear in the new series of the duchess’s Netflix show
With Love, Meghan was renewed for a second season just as season one was released in March. All the episodes were filmed at the same time, it is understood.
Guests on season two also include Chrissy Teigan and Jamie Kern Lima.
In a 27-second teaser, which dropped earlier this month, Meghan is seen eating cheese, prepping snacks and drinks with friends and even reveals the food her husband Prince Harry doesn’t like.
‘Do you know who doesn’t like lobster? My husband,’ she says as she prepares the seafood.
As the trailer comes to an end, Meghan reveals: ‘I love these moments of discovery and beauty. So let’s be curious together.’
Meghan’s lifestyle show failed to break into Netflix ‘s top 300 programmes for the first half of 2025 and was even thrashed by multiple seasons of Suits. The numbers watching were ‘dismal’, an insider at the streamer reportedly said.
Meghan has also filmed a Christmas special for broadcast in December, in a potential clash with the Princess of Wales’ annual carol concert at Westminster Abbey.
The first series showed the former Suits star, 44, inviting friends and famous guests to a California estate, where she shared cooking, gardening and hosting tips.
But it was panned by many reviewers who called it ‘sensationally absurd and trite’ with the Duchess of Sussex called ‘tone-deaf’ and punting a show that ‘vibrates with vacuous joylessness’.
The Northern Irish chef became the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars
With Love, Meghan was renewed for a second season just as season one was released in March. Pictured: Meghan with Smyth
It has an IMDB rating of 3.2 out of 10 and a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, indicates that the TV show is considered ‘rotten’.
Meghan was also lampooned for putting pretzels from the packet into a plastic bag, chiding one guest for using Markle as her surname instead of Sussex and one viewer threatened to sue claiming her recipe for homemade bath salts burned her skin.
It came as experts claimed that the Sussexes’ new Netflix deal is a ‘downgrade’ on their previous $100million five-year tie-up and more ‘we’ll call you’ than ‘here’s the chequebook’.
The couple signed a new ‘multi-year, first look deal for film and television projects’ with the streaming giant – understood to be worth less for the pair than their previous contract.
