{"id":712143,"date":"2026-07-26T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:04:08","slug":"meghan-calls-prince-harry-a-charmer-during-masterchef-australia-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712143\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan calls Prince Harry &#8216;a charmer&#8217; during MasterChef Australia appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early on in the episode, Meghan was asked what her favourite dish is to make at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it was &#8220;a tough one because I have a lot of palettes to appease&#8221;, with her British-born husband favouring &#8220;meat, potatoes and cream sauce&#8221; while she preferred grilled fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their two children, Archie and Lilibet, often help with meal preparation and are &#8220;great eaters&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really lucky on that front,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She then urged the chefs to cook something they felt connected to. &#8220;What&#8217;s the story behind it?&#8221; she asked them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Prince Harry dialled in later on during the episode, Meghan told them: &#8220;My husband&#8217;s here,&#8221; prompting cheers and shocked faces from contestants and spectators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wish you could try these, these dishes are fantastic,&#8221; she told him, before showing him the food. He signed off by telling her to go and enjoy, adding: &#8220;Very sorry to disturb you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The duchess\u2019s appearance on the latest season of the show was well received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1PeHMwPYEx\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Hello Magazine, external<\/a>, which shared a video of the episode online and complimented Meghan for the way she interacted with the chefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Duchess of Sussex gave personal time calls to all the contestants, proving that she&#8217;s always so effortlessly elegant,&#8221; it wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/article\/meghan-masterchef-australia-review-sc3m2gmw5\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Writing in The Sunday Times, external<\/a>, Charlotte Ivers was less impressed, saying her appearance on the show &#8220;told us nothing about what she likes or who even will leave the competition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social media users were also split, with one viewer writing that Meghan was &#8220;warm, gracious and a delight to watch&#8221; while another called Prince Harry&#8217;s cameo appearance &#8220;cringe&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early on in the episode, Meghan was asked what her favourite dish is to make at home. She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}