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The Duchess of Sussex has offered her fans a sneak peek into her Thanksgiving festivities, posting a video where she is seen seasoning a turkey.
Meghan Markle, 44, took to Instagram to share a short video captioned ‘Let the game begin. Get It? #mom joke’ as she mixed an array of seasonings into a bowl.
In the brief clip, Meghan Markle is shown applying a blend of spices to the uncooked turkey before placing it in the oven. Notably absent from her preparation was any butter.
This culinary glimpse follows the release of a glamorous trailer for her holiday-themed Netflix special, where Meghan is seen sharing a kiss with Prince Harry and discussing the importance of ‘embracing tradition.’
The trailer, unveiled last week, teases a special Christmas edition of her series “With, Love Meghan.”
In the video, Meghan describes the holiday season as a period ‘to connect with the people we love,’ while sharing a tender moment with her husband, Harry.
The Duchess posted the trailer to her Instagram just moments before Prince William and Princess Kate were due to step out at the star-studded Royal Variety Performance.
The future King and Queen dazzled as they arrived at the annual charity event alongside stars at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Meghan Markle, 44, took to Instagram to share a short video captioned ‘Let the ‘game begin. Get It? #mome joke’ as she mixed an array of seasonings into a bowl
In the speedy video, the actress could be seen rubbing the mixture onto the raw bird before popping it into the oven
In Meghan’s Netflix trailer, she seemingly gave the audience a glimpse into how she, the Duke, and their two children, Archie, six, and four-year-old Lilibet, celebrate.
Tennis champion Naomi Osaka, chef Tom Colicchio, hospitality expert Will Guidara, philanthropist Kelly McKee Zajfen and longtime friend Lindsay Roth also join Meghan in the festive cheer.
‘Being a hostess or a host is about making people feel comfortable,’ she said, while noting the gift-giving season was about ’embracing tradition’.
In one part of the trailer, the mother-of-two can be seen organising a plate of Christmas-themed cookies alongside milk in a personalised Santa mug with Archie and Lilibet’s names.
Elsewhere, she’s spotted grinning while painting snowflake sweet treats and preparing crafted advent calendars for them with notes and special gifts.
While plugging a trio of her £27 ($36) As Ever jams, she encouraged fans to ‘unwrap the magic’.
Similar to the main series of With Love Meghan, the Christmas edition was filmed in Montecito, where the Duchess lives with Harry, Archie and Lilibet.
The show is not filmed in the Sussexes’ California home, but in an $8million (£6.2million) farmhouse owned by Tom and Sherrie Cipolla, both philanthropists.
The couple live a stone’s throw away from the Duke and Duchess $14.65 million (£11.1million) home, the Decor reported.
The Duchess of Sussex promotes her jam and locks lips with Prince Harry as she talks about ’embracing traditions’ in a glitzy new trailer for her festive Netflix show
Meghan smiling while painting snowflake cookies for Archie and Lilibet
A gift set of Meghan’s As Ever signature fruit spread, which retails for $42 (£31)
The Duchess Of Sussex, 44, revealed that she, Harry, 41, and their kids – son Archie, six, and daughter Lilibet, four – harvest sage from their garden to season their homemade feast
The advert isn’t the first time the Duchess has given fans insight into how the Sussexes celebrate big events.
In her latest newsletter for As Ever, the 44-year-old shared that she, Harry, 41, and the children harvest sage from their garden for their homemade Thanksgiving feast.
Sage is among Markle’s ‘favourite’ flavours, according to the newsletter, and she’s been documenting herself ‘flowering sage’ in her backyard on Instagram over the last year.
‘Those photos you’ve seen this year on our Instagram of Meghan walking through what seems like lavender, with its gorgeous purple hue, actually share the beauty of flowering sage (Fun fact: the varietal is called Santa Barbara),’ the newsletter said.
But this has not been a solo project of Markle’s, as it was revealed that the entire family has been involved in the backyard harvest.
She recalled ‘strolls’ through the garden with the family and their two pet dogs and how sage served as the backdrop of their family’s ‘sun-drenched moments’ together.
‘Those strolls, with Archie and Lili running in tow, her husband checking on the bees, Pula chasing the ball with Mia trying to keep up — those were the sun-drenched moments that made an everyday walk something a bit more magical,’ said the newsletter.
‘And that sage, that purple, that scent around the garden, was always there in the background.’
The sweet anecdote from Markle’s family life also served to promote As Ever’s new Sage Honey with Honeycomb, which retails for $32.00 (£24.48) for a 9oz jar on the official website.