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Meghan Markle on MasterChef Australia

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Tom Sykes
Jul 15, 2026
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Less than a year after the With Love, Meghan holiday special seemed to have eradicated the Duchess of Sussex from our screens altogether (despite a baffling day time Emmy nomination for the wider show today) with a forced march of festive tablescaping from which some viewers have yet to fully recover, she is BAAACK.

Meghan will hit the airwaves down under with a guest judging spot on MasterChef Australia that will be broadcast on Sunday, July 26, at 7pm on Channel 10, and the premise is exactly as humble as you’d expect: contestants will be challenged to create “a dish fit for a Duchess.”

Suggestions and recipes for humble pie in the comments below please.

The former actress, 44, filmed the slot during the Sussexes’ quasi-royal tour of Australia three months ago, with hosts Poh Ling Yeow, Jean-Christophe Novelli and Sofia Levin.

Duchess à la Montecito (serves: herself). Take 3lbs of self-regard, 5lbs of resentful British princeling and an ounce of performative humility (organic, obviously, and lightly dusted with As Ever branding), then fold in a generous handful of family memories, being careful to remove the family first. Leave to marinate in its own grievance for six years, turning occasionally on Netflix, Spotify and Oprah. While you wait for it to rise, like, follow and subscribe to THE ROYALIST before 4 August.

What attracted me to the MasterChef Australia kitchen? Two things: my love of food and my love of Australia. It was an easy yes,” Meghan said in a press release, presumably with a straight face, given that easy yeses are rather a Sussex speciality when cameras and cheques are involved.

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