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Meghan Markle was called by her maiden name on Australian TV, after previously insisting that a close friend call her “Meghan Sussex”.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex surprised fans when she appeared in a teaser clip of MasterChef Australia in Melbourne on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Judge Poh Ling Yeow presented the 44-year-old to contestants using both her royal designation and birth name.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had MasterChef royalty in the kitchen before, but nothing like this,” Ms Yeow declared in a preview clip shared on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle called wrong name on Australian TV despite previous request<\/p>\n

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“All the way from sunny California, please welcome to MasterChef Australia…the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle!” she continued.<\/p>\n

The appearance, filmed during the couple’s current Australian visit, will air when the new series launches on Sunday, April 19.<\/p>\n

The introduction stands in notable contrast to an exchange during the duchess’s Netflix series With Love, Meghan, where she corrected friend Mindy Kaling for using her maiden name.<\/p>\n

When Ms Kaling remarked that “people wouldn’t believe that Meghan Markle ate at Jack in the Box,” the former working royal interjected.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle has filmed a guest judging role on MasterChef Australia, on her return to the country for the first time in eight years<\/p>\n

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“It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying ‘Meghan Markle.’ You know I’m ‘Sussex’ now,” Meghan responded.<\/p>\n

She emphasised that having children had made the shared family name deeply meaningful to her.<\/p>\n

Following that correction, the duchess was subsequently introduced as Meghan Sussex during an appearance on the Drew Barrymore Show.<\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex received their titles from Queen Elizabeth upon their wedding in 2018, retaining them after departing from official royal duties two years later.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle corrected Mindy Kaling over her surname during her show<\/p>\n

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Drew Barrymore introduced Meghan Sussex to her TV set<\/p>\n

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YOUTUBE: THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW<\/p>\n

Speaking to People in 2025, Meghan explained the significance of the Sussex name to her family.<\/p>\n

“It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognised how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,” she said. “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together.”<\/p>\n

During their Australian trip, the couple have taken a relaxed approach to formalities, with an aide telling hospital staff that “Harry and Meghan is fine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was called by her maiden name on Australian TV, after previously insisting that a close friend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,4866,111,139,69,9855,51066],"class_list":["post-381905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-royal","tag-sgg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}