Meghan Markle Makes Green Waffles at Home with Prince Harry and Kids on St. Patrick’s Day

Meghan Markle has once again shown off her baking skills as she made green waffles to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. 

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, shared a selection of videos to her Instagram story on Monday, using a waffle maker to create a delicious breakfast. 

Meghan expressed her enthusiasm for themes as she shared a post featuring a creatively designed waffle. The waffle was adorned with a kiwi for a mouth, blueberries for eyes, and whipped cream hair, specifically made ‘for the kids’ – her five-year-old son, Prince Archie, and three-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet.

For her and husband Prince Harry, Meghan served a plain green waffle alongside a dollop of cream and two strawberries.

‘For us! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!’ she shared. 

Despite the mixed reviews received by her Netflix cookery show, “With Love, Meghan,” which was criticized by reviewers earlier this month, the Duchess showcased her ongoing passion for baking.

Critics were not impressed with the show, as The Guardian labeled it a ‘gormless lifestyle filler’ that might be the Sussexes’ final TV venture, while The Telegraph called it ‘insane’ and an ‘exercise in narcissism’.

Taking to her Instagram story today, Meghan filmed herself whisking the green waffle batter, before pouring it into the waffle maker.  

She captioned her post: ‘About this morning…’ and scraped the sides of the waffle maker down with a spatula. 

Meghan had also made a green glass of milk to keep on theme, and finished her bake with a sprinkle of salt. She giggled as she put the final touches to the kids’ waffles. 

Though it appeared to be a standard model, the waffle maker may hold a special meaning for the Duchess and her family. 

In 2021, Prince Harry told James Corden that Queen Elizabeth had bought Prince Archie a waffle maker for Christmas, during an appearance on the Late Late Show. 

‘My grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas, and Meg said a waffle maker,’ Harry told Corden at the time. 

‘She sent us a waffle maker for Archie. So breakfast now, Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix’ and throws it in the waffle iron. Archie’s review? ‘He loves it.’ So much so, ‘Archie wakes up in the morning and literally just goes, ‘Waffle?” 

Meghan’s post comes just hours after the Princess of Wales attended the Irish Guards’ annual parade at Wellington Barracks in London. 

Kate, 43, made a triumphant solo return to the celebration, before putting drinks behind the bar for guardsmen and enjoying a toast inside the Wellington Barracks in Westminster – in her first time attending the celebration since 2023. 

It appears the two royals have both been celebrating the annual celebration thousands of miles away from one another.  

In With Love, Meghan, the former Suits actress gave hosting tips and cooks with celebrity friends including The Office star Mindy Kaling.

The Duke of Sussex makes just one appearance at the end of the first season’s final episode when he joins Meghan, her mother Doria Ragland and friends for an outdoor celebratory brunch.

Meghan said it ‘feels like a new chapter that I’m so excited that I get to share and I’ve been able to learn from all of you’, in what is likely to be seen as a nod to the restrictions she felt within the royal family.

She told People magazine that her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, visited her on set, which she called ‘really special because up until then, they hadn’t seen me at work’, and spoke about her and Harry having a daily ‘nightcap recap’, where they discussed their day.

‘My husband met me when I had (the former lifestyle website) The Tig, and I see this spark in his eye when he sees me doing the thing that I was doing when he first met me,’ she said. ‘It’s almost like a honeymoon period again.’

The Duchess also last week launched her lifestyle brand As Ever, with her website revealing her first products: raspberry jam, and the flower sprinkles she promotes throughout the show.

The second season of With Love, Meghan is coming in the autumn, and has already finished filming, according to Netflix. 

Viewers had been left baffled by some of Meghan’s tips and ticks, including ‘elevating’ foods by adding flower petals, transferring supermarket pretzels into a supermarket bag, as well as her unusual method of cooking spaghetti. 

Meghan shared a number of recipes throughout the series, including for spaghetti, a honey and lemon cake and a cooked breakfast. She said her new show had helped her to ‘find herself’ again.

But despite her huge two-million-strong following on social media, she insisted she instead saw as a ‘female founder’ and ‘entrepreneur’ rather than an influencer.

Since Harry and Meghan signed their $80million mega deal with Netflix in 2020, there has been one smash hit and three relative duds.

Meanwhile, the Duchess is also set to launch another podcast next month.  

The Duchess of Sussex signed a deal with Lemonada Media in February 2024 after her Spotify contract ended in 2023 after one series of her first podcast Archetypes.

Now, her first project called ‘Confessions of a Female Founder’ with Lemonada has been confirmed and is set to feature conversations with businesswomen and friends talking about starting a company.

Lemonada described the show as inviting listeners ‘to be a fly on the wall as Meghan sits down for candid conversations with female founders and friends about the success, the struggles, and the never-before-told stories of building a business’.

A trailer will be released on March 25 with the first episode on April 8, and it comes after her new lifestyle show ‘With Love, Meghan’ premiered on Netflix on March 4.

Posting a photograph of the cover work for the new podcast on her Instagram account today, the Duchess said she was ‘so excited’ to share news of the podcast, describing the experience as ‘absolutely eye-opening, inspiring…and fun!’

Meghan said: ‘I’m so excited to share with you something else I’ve been working on: ‘Confessions Of A Female Founder,’ my new podcast with @lemonadamedia!

‘I’ve been having candid conversations with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities, and scaled small ideas into massively successful businesses.

‘They’re opening up, sharing their tips, tricks (and tumbles), and letting me pick their brains as I build out my own business, As Ever. It has been absolutely eye-opening, inspiring…and fun! (Because what’s the point if we can’t have some fun on this wild adventure?)’

The Duchess also told Deadline in a statement: ‘I’m so proud of what we’re creating, and the candid conversations that I’m able to have with other female founders as we unpack the twists and turns of building a business.

‘Through my friendships and relationships, we’re able to dive into the type of insights that everyone wants to know as they’re building a business, and that I’m able to tap into as I’m building my own business with As Ever.’

Jessica Cordova Kramer, Lemonada chief executive and co-founder, added: ‘As female founders ourselves, Steph and I are grateful to get a chance to build alongside Meghan the exact podcast we needed when we started Lemonada.’

Lemonada’s chief creative officer and co-founder, Stephanie Wittels Wachs, said: ‘Meghan is such a warm and welcoming person, and you feel that in her interviews.

‘She creates a comfortable space for her guests to bring fascinating personal stories to the table and open up in a way they likely haven’t before publicly. Listeners can expect conversations that are way more break room than boardroom.’

Lemonada also said: ‘As Meghan herself navigates the world of entrepreneurship with the upcoming launch of her brand As Ever, be inspired by the real, unfiltered stories and lessons learned from notable female founders-from knowing your worth, to trusting your gut, securing investors, and investing in yourself.’

It follows Meghan’s Archetypes podcast about female stereotypes which ran for just one series and was part of the Sussexes’ previous deal with Spotify which ended in 2023. 

The second season of With Love, Meghan is coming in the autumn, and has already finished filming, according to Netflix.

Meghan signed the podcast deal with Lemonada Media in February last year after she and Prince Harry parted ways with Spotify.

It was announced at the time that she would host a new podcast series for the female-founded company and have Archetypes distributed to all platforms.

‘I’m proud to now be able to share that I am joining the brilliant team at Lemonada to continue my love of podcasting,’ Meghan said in a statement at the time.

Lemonada produces shows around sex, grief and LGBTQ issues to help ‘make life suck less’.

The company was launched in 2019 by co-founders Jessica Cordova Kramer and Stephanie Wittels Wachs who bonded after both losing their brothers to overdoses.

The pair now work with a host of celebrities from Sarah Silverman to Julia Louis-Dreyfus and have big backers including Stephanie Hannon, who served as chief technology officer for Hillary Clinton ‘s 2016 presidential campaign.

Wittels Wachs said in a 2022 interview that they realised ‘people are struggling and feeling really alone. The mission for Lemonada was born. Our desire to make the hard things easier’.

One of Lemonada’s most popular shows is Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which spent 29 days in a row at the top of the Apple Podcast charts.

In the podcast she sits down with Jane Fonda, Carol Burnett, Amy Tan, Diane von Furstenberg, Isabel Allende and Fran Lebowitz ‘to get schooled in how to live a full and meaningful life’.

Another podcast, BEING Trans, follows a group of transgender people navigating their daily lives. Also on Lemonada is Raised by Ricki which revisits the iconic 90s talk show, the Ricki Lake Show, hosted by Ricki herself.

Meanwhile Burnout, hosted by Connor Franta, looks at ‘how society reached a burning point and what we can do – really, actually do – to break the cycle.’

Before Lemonada, Cordova Kramer worked as a Wall Street lawyer and then Teach For America, while Wittels Wachs was working as a theatre director and writer.

The Duchess’s deal with Lemonada came a year after Meghan and Harry ended their $20million deal with Spotify, three years after it was signed.

Spotify and the Sussexes’s audio production company Archewell Audio released a joint statement saying they have ‘mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together’.

A top Spotify podcast executive then called Harry and Meghan ‘f***ing grifters’ after they produced only one series for the company.

Archetypes, Meghan’s original Spotify show, had around one million listens per episode and debuted as Spotify’s No. 1 podcast in 47 countries around the world when it launched in August 2022.

The series explored the labels that try to hold women back and included guests such as Mariah Carey, Jameela Jamil and Pamela Adlon.

The series won a People’s Choice Award for The Pop Podcast of 2022 and Meghan won best entertainment podcast host at the Gracie Awards.