Meghan Markle wrote a heartfelt letter to a podcaster to encourage her not to worry about potential criticism of her new Netflix show.
The podcaster, Amanda Hirsch, shared that Meghan had sent her a personal note on official stationery in response to Hirsch expressing concerns about Meghan’s authenticity in the show “With Love, Meghan.”
‘Oh my Duchess,’ she said alongside a picture of the letter.
Hirsch had previously shared a video where she discussed her worries that Meghan may not come across as genuine in the series.
She said: ‘You guys I’m scared for Meghan.’
Meghan then found Hirsch’s address and sent her a letter which read: ‘Dear Amanda, I heard you were feeling scared.
‘Don’t be,’ the letter continued. ‘This is the fun part – let’s enjoy it.’ She signed off with the phrase ‘as ever, Meghan.’
Meghan’s penmanship has sparked a stir among Hirsch’s 893,000 followers, many who said they couldn’t believe the ‘beautiful’ styling of the short note.
Hirsch herself said she’d ‘frame’ the letter.
‘Obviously framing this. Beyond shook. Beyond spiraling. Did I smell the paper? Yes. Do I want my own monogram? Yes,’ she said.
‘Am I absolutely flabbergasted and obsessed? F**k yes. Meghan, you have a fan for life.’
The letter was dated to March 2025. Back in January, after the trailer for Meghan’s show was released, Hirsch shared her initial thoughts.
‘I’m genuinely concerned for Meghan. I am not a Meghan hater at all, it feels like a Blake Lively situation where people just piled on this woman,’ Hirsch said, repeatedly dropping her head into her hand and grimacing.
‘I haven’t formed an opinion, I don’t hate her like a lot of the world does. I understand that some people are like ”she’s inauthentic” – I get it.’
Hirsch said she was scared that the Netflix show would only amplify claims of Meghan’s inauthenticity and ‘make those claims stronger.’
‘From the trailer, it looks like it might be kind of trying to be a Martha Stewart situation that feels a little forced,’ she said.
‘The trailer at least doesn’t seem like she’s going to come across relatable which I feel like she’ll want to try to be. I’m scared for her.’
Addressing Meghan directly, Hirsch said: ‘Meghan why did you have to go and do that? Consult with me, I would have told you.’
Since the show launched, Meghan has faced significant backlash after critics said it made her look out of touch and ‘tone deaf.’
But Hirsch’s following was largely impressed by Meghan’s correspondence, theorizing that she may be angling to become a guest on the podcast.
Dozens of fans responded to the post saying her decision to reach out to the podcaster made them ‘like her even more.’
‘I hated the show but I genuinely like her. This makes me like her even more,’ one supporter said.
‘That handwriting is rich,’ another said, while a third added: ‘I find myself Team Meghan all of a sudden.’
Others questioned why the Duchess continues to use ‘stationary with a crown’ given her longstanding terse relationship with the royal family.
‘Stationary with a crown when you fled the royal family is crazy work,’ one critic said.
‘Doesn’t wanna be “Royal” but has a crown on her personal stationary?’ another asked.
The Duchess of Sussex, who lives in a sprawling $14.65million Montecito mansion, insists she and Prince Harry are trying to be like other families with children at school.
‘Once you know us, I think you want us to have the same normalcy as parents and for our children as they do, despite however unique our situation is,’ she told People.
‘I have a couple of girlfriends up here – these are stay-at-home moms and working women with normal jobs, not in the public eye.’
Fellow Netflix stars have even taken to mocking the series, while the Duchess of Sussex has become a punching bag for some comedians.
During NBC’s The Tonight Show on Monday, Jimmy Fallon’s sidekick Steve Higgins asked the host the ‘number one question that mystifies scientists.’
Answering his own question, he said: ‘Why does Meghan Markle make her own pretzel bags? They don’t know why.’
They were referring to a moment in the show where the duchess transfers pre-packaged pretzels into another bag with a personalized label on to show visiting guests that she is thinking of them.
Despite being mocked, the series has been renewed for a second season, with Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, insisting the Duchess has been ‘underestimated.’
Since the couple signed the mega deal with Netflix in 2020, there has been one smash hit and three relative duds.
With Love, Meghan was watched by 526,000 households in the first five days it was available on Netflix since its release on March 4, according to data gathered by Samba TV.
The show sees the duchess trying to promote herself in a new way as a ‘domestic goddess’, baking cakes, arranging flowers and slipping into a beekeeper’s suit to collect honey.
She shared a number of recipes throughout the series, including for spaghetti, a honey and lemon cake and a cooked breakfast.
Meghan 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.
By comparison, the biographical ‘Harry & Meghan’ was the streaming service’s biggest documentary debut, viewed in almost 29 million households in its first four days, and proved a global sensation.
But Polo, a sports docuseries, Live to Lead – which focused on ‘global justice activists’ – and Heart of Invictus, about Harry’s games for wounded soldiers, proved lacklustre additions that failed to set the streaming service’s viewing figures ablaze.
