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Left, from Anna Jones's book, right from With Love, Meghan

There have been a lot of very funny and very cruel articles in the British press this week tearing into Meghan Markle’s new show With Love, Meghan.

Oh, sorry, Meghan Sussex, as she insists she now is, at one particularly toe-curling point in the show.

I’m not going to join in with that too much, because frankly it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s a terrible programme. Delusionary is about the kindest thing I could say.

My daughter Peggy put it brilliantly, saying ‘It’s like Amandaland…’.

She’s referring to a hilarious tv series that has recently come out on the BBC, a sequel to the equally brilliant Motherland. They are both sooooo good.

The eponymous Amanda is an indescribably pretentious but actually totally hopeless yummy mummy, who fancies herself as an influencer – with hilarious results…

The cast of Amandaland, with Amanda in the middle. Note her mother, second from the right, played unbelievably brilliantly by Joanna Lumley.

I didn’t have high expectations of Meghan’s sh…

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