Yes, it's Full of Nonsense, Over-the-Top Hospitality and Self-Help Jargon. But I Do Love Meghan's Christmas Special.

No matter the season, it's always hunting season for scrutiny on the Meghan Markle's televisual offering, With Love, Meghan. Critics, expert and amateur alike, have hardly ever agreed so completely as when enthusiastically shredding the program's initial installments to pieces. The common opinion held that a greater royal outrage had never been witnessed than the now-infamous pretzel-bagging incident.

Presently, as a festive rebel, she has returned for another round with a "Holiday Celebration" (aka a yuletide episode). However on this occasion, things have shifted. The familiar ingredients we've come to expect – psychobabble word salads, intense hospitality – are still present, but set of a yuletide episode, the purpose becomes clear. The pieces have fallen into place; it's a flawless festive blizzard.

By this point, Meghan has become the eccentric aunt at Christmas celebrations everywhere – dispensing unsolicited, unnecessary advice, and supplying the periodic peculiar declaration. ("I love spinach!" … "A tradition has to have a beginning." … "A tree is part of my memory and love of the holiday season.") She's a bit of a character, but her aura is known and unexpectedly soothing. And she seems content; she's causing the slightest hurt.

She understands her all subtle gestures, syllable and gaze will be picked apart and scrutinized, but still appears carefree and too blessed to be stressed.

Maybe this is the only time in history where that clichéd phrase – "Don't listen, it's pure jealousy" – may well be true. Because, let's face it, all aspects in Meghan's Holiday Celebration honestly feels charming. Admittedly, it's all cringily ultra-extra, nonsense and extravagant – but doesn't that represent exactly what the holiday season is all about? And the words she speaks might be absurd, but the example she sets seems authentically impeccably styled.

Anything she attempts, she pulls off with panache. Her culinary efforts looks scrumptious, the holiday arrangement she creates is gorgeous, her gifts are almost too pretty to tear into. Nothing is mediocre or visually unappealing – even the way she fastens her apron is stylish and elegant. She doesn't bung a meal in the oven, it "takes a twirl", and she folds gift paper like an origami guru. She also seems to be completely savoring herself throughout. How could any hate-watcher not be charmed, filled with holiday spirit and left with a intense desire for personalized Christmas crackers or a vegetable display where broccoli is arranged in the form of a Christmas ring?

Meghan had a career in acting for a living, naturally, but even so, after the degree of attention she has weathered ever since she met Prince Harry, the love child of Meryl Streep and Judi Dench would find it hard to appear this authentically. Her unwillingness to change or even tone down her persona, even though it being so persistently, widely parodied, is strangely reassuring. In our uncertain world, here is one thing we can count on: Meghan will be like this, whatever happens. We will forever know where we are with her.

If you're still not buying what she's selling, a reminder that will undoubtedly come as a reassurance: you are not obligated to. The UK has abolished the draft anymore, and were it to return, it would be doubtful to include watching With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration. If, however, you willingly check it out and are gripped with longing about her flawless Christmas, there is hope either. Be you a royal or a everyday person, hardly any child completely grasps the effort and hard work their parent puts in in the holiday season. So you can find comfort by envisioning Archie and Lilibet's faces when they open a handwritten message that says, 'I love you because you are brave,' from a homemade Advent calendar, instead of a chocolate.

Terri Warren
Terri Warren

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