Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull

Meghan Markle (Photo: Netflix)

My experience of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and Muchness of Montecito, has I imagine been quite a common one. I started out full of enthusiasm that this apparently self-made counter-jumper (actually expensively educated by her poor doofus of a dad) was bringing a soupçon of style to the old Windsors. When it transpired that she was a liar (that ‘secret’ wedding before the public one) and a hypocrite (taking private jets like others take taxis while preaching about climate change) I naturally changed my opinion of her, as I’m not a dolt. I’ve loathed the lying, hypocritical bore ever since, and noted with pleasure the repeated failure that her ‘projects’ run into.

With Love, Meghan launches on Netflix today, and is very much thought to be her last chance to make good. As the Daily Mail had it: ‘Sources have said the Sussexes’ relationship with Netflix is on borrowed time, amid claims they have proven hard to work with. “The

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