Meghan Markle has been ridiculed by the BBC – with Prince Harry also given the same brutal treatment – on a primetime comedy show where the audience appeared to jeer her new lifestyle brand As Ever.

The Duchess of Sussex was mocked up wearing a chef’s hat while cooking jam on Have I Got News for You, which was watched by almost 3million people on Friday night.

There were groans and jeers from the audience as host Alexander Armstrong read Meghan’s description of the launch of her brand as a ‘pivotal moment’ and her jam jars as ‘time capsules’. 

One gag at her expense suggested that she had only sold out of her ‘fruit spread’ online because there were hardly any for sale.

‘It has immediately sold out, which I thought was good, unless there is only two jars’, team captain and journalist Ian Hislop said sarcastically.

A top comedian then suggested that Meghan was inauthentic and may not keep bees because she looked so repulsed when she was collecting honey on her Netflix show.

‘She held each honeycomb like it was covered in s**t’, stand-up Phil Wang said. Putting on an American accent he went on: ‘And she’s like: “I love coming out and getting in touch with nature” but you could see she was about to throw up’. 

Prince Harry was also not immune from a TV pasting as the panel lampooned him over the scandal at Sentebale – the African children’s charity he set up in his mother’s honour – after the chair accused him of bullying and took legal action.

Citing how Meghan has advised customers to keep her jam jars and use them to store love notes, keepsakes and treasures, Mr Hislop said: ‘It would also make a lovely holder for writs from charities that your husband has been involved in’.

Meghan Markle was mocked up in a chef’s hat cooking jam on Have I Got News for You, which was watched by almost three million people

Ian Hislop cracked jokes about Meghan’s cooking shows and also poked fun and her husband Prince Harry

Comedian Phil Wang questioned whether Meghan really keeps bees, claiming she looked like she was holding ‘s**t’ when she held some honeycomb 

The panel also poked fun at the standard of her cooking on her new Netflix TV series, With Love, Meghan, saying it only amounted to her buying some pretzels and putting them in a plastic bag.

There was also laughing and some jeering during a gag about how As Ever looks like ‘A Sever’ on the label, ‘which is what she did to the Royal Family’, comedian Mr Wang said.

The panel then moved on the crack jokes about her Netflix show With Love, Meghan, which has been widely panned by critics.

‘At one point she says that a brilliant thing you can do is serve pretzels. And she got out a bag of pretzels and poured them in another bag. And then put it on the table. That was it, that was cooking’.

Host Alexander Armstrong also poked fun at her Instagram claim that lemon tart is a British tradition on Mother’s Day, joking that he’d never seen that sold in a petrol station. 

It came after New York Magazine – a former champion of the Sussexes’ – said that Meghan Markle wants to be a ‘fairy-tale princess’ and is ‘insulting’ people with her advice on how to make a cup of tea from her As Ever range.

The Duchess of Sussex is in the midst of an ‘identity crisis’ where she lurches between being a British duchess and a California mum feeding her children chicken nuggets, the publication claimed.

In a stinging feature, Margaret Hartmann says that people who are unsure about her new lifestyle brand, hawking quintessentially British staples such as tea, jam and shortbread, are probably ‘annoying’ to the former Suits star. 

Meghan’s decision to buy pretzels and then put them in a bag was the subject of jokes

The moment the audience jeered during the section on Meghan and Harry

‘Meghan felt the need to explain (twice!) that tea is prepared by steeping bags in hot water. 

‘Don’t I understand her journey from super-relatable mildly famous person to literal royal who is still very relatable?’, the writer adds sarcastically.

And as well as not knowing who exactly she is, Meghan is not clear on who her customers are either, she says, adding that Meghan is ‘wavering between acting like I’ve never made tea and assuming I regularly throw together Champagne-honey vinaigrette for my ladies’ lunches’.

Ms Hartmann remarks on how she’d like to know if Meghan sprinkles her edible flowers on the Tater Tots – an American bite-sized frozen hash brown – that she claims she serves to Archie and Lilibet, or on her husband’s breakfast.

New York Magazine has previously praised Harry and Meghan as ‘perfect for eachother’ and celebrated her for her speaking out on the rights of women and against racism.

But it has today published an excoriating review of her new As Ever brand with its $28 (£21.60) honey, $14 (£10.80) raspberry jam, $15 (£11.60) flower sprinkles and three types of tea that could easily be from the shelves of Harrods or Fortnum and Mason in London.

The range appear have a British influence. But are in stark contrast to a recent claim made by a source close to the Duchess of Sussex that she ‘never felt at home’ in the UK and ‘never wants to set foot again in England’. 

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend the Christmas Day Church service with the Royal Family at Sandringham in 2018. The couple are now estranged from most of Harry’s relatives

Meghan says by using her edible flowers ‘adds a finishing touch worth smiling about’

When it comes to tea, Meghan says: ‘Steep in hot water and share with loved ones’

Harry and Meghan have also fallen out spectacularly with the British Royal Family and just one in five of the British public have a positive view of them, a recent poll revealed.

In a piece entitled ‘Meghan Markle’s As Ever is selling an identity crisis’, New York Magazine says: ‘Who, exactly, is Meghan? An expert homemaker graciously sharing her recipe for homemade dog biscuits or a novice eager to learn from her celebrity friends? Real-life fairy-tale princess (okay, duchess) or chill-yet-stylish California girl espousing the joys of Jack in the Box?’

The publication goes to town on her British-related products and the lifestyle and serving suggestions the duchess offers up with them.

‘These ping-ponged between insultingly basic and depressingly out of reach’, the writer says.