As the long-awaited series With Love, Meghan, drops on Netflix today, Siobhan McNally says the Duchess of Sussex is so out-of-touch with the real world, she comes from another planet – Planet Hollywood

It was a terrible shame that With Love, Meghan was postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires because I really don’t know how we all coped so long without her gratuitously hypocritical and condescending cooking and lifestyle show, full of insufferable drivel dressed up as parenting advice.

But now that the Duchess of Sussex’s long-awaited eight-part series has dropped on Netflix, we really ought to thank Prince Harry’s American wife for uniting our nation in our condemnation of the new show.

The former Suits actress’s series has cost the streaming giant $100million – which is a lot of money for what feels like a comedy show. It should really be renamed With Lolz, Meghan because at least she’s given us all something to laugh about together as we teeter on the precipice of World War III.

While Harry’s mum Diana became known as the ‘people’s princess’ for her down-to-earth personality, Mrs Sussex – as she passive aggressively reminds one of the show flunkies who dares use her maiden name Markle – is so out-of-touch, she’s clearly from another planet – Planet Hollywood.

“We’re not in the pursuit of perfection, we’re in the pursuit of joy,” she says in her new show, before giving us a peek into her carefully curated flawless luxury life. But it really doesn’t take much talent or creativity to create an enviable lifestyle with a bottomless budget.

In the show, we see Prince Harry congratulating Meghan for organising her wrap party as they all smugly clink the finest crystal champagne glasses. “Well done. You did a great job!” her posh husband chunters.

Oh come now, Hazza. How hard can it be to phone up the local luxury florist and get them to send over $10,000-worth of white peonies for your table decorations?

What I’d like to see is his missus throw a party with a budget of $20 to spend on home decor from Matalan where the kids have helped decorate the house with their disturbing scribbles and made cupcakes from a mixture of bogeys and plasticine – because that’s real family life.

When my daughter Jesse was little she insisted on helping me make “can-of-peas” (canapés) for guests when I threw a party – and everyone went down with Norovirus the next day.

The show, which was filmed in a $5m rented California farmhouse rather than in Sussex’s Montecito house, features Meghan talking about the joys of playing in the sandbox with her children like she’s just a normal fun mum. Yeah well I bet she’s never had to check the sand pit for dog poo before letting her kids play in it.

I’m not alone in thinking the show is a load of fake nonsense – thousands of mums have been taking to social media to pour scorn on Meghan’s unrealistic parenting advice, as she tells us all how we can make breakfast time “more fun”.

Clearly Harry’s precious wife has never had to rush around at 7.30am making “healthy” school packed lunches for a child who only eats crustless beige food, or tried to dry a damp school shirt that was left overnight in the washing machine with a hairdryer, all the while trying to stop her youngest from feeding Weetabix to the hamster.

And then to add insult to injury, the Duchess’s inspiring breakfast hack to encourage Lilibet, 3, and five-year-old Archie to eat more fruit was creating a rainbow platter of exotic fruit which the Mirror has calculated cost £32. That sort of wasteful lavishness shows that money and sense is no object in the Sussex household, and is cruelly tone deaf during a cost of living crisis where hard-up parents often live on that for the entire week.

I used to stick googly eyes on apples and bananas instead to get my daughter to eat them – a lot cheaper but the downside is she may have ingested more plastic than fruit than current NHS guidelines allow.

Anyway, everyone knows breakfast times are not fun with children – they are to be endured until the kids are old enough to pick up a can of Monster energy drink on the way to school in the morning instead.

And no amount of sprinkling dried flower petals over their food like Meghan suggests in her “tips and tricks” is going to change that. In fact I have always had enough trouble with my own child picking bits out of her meals without purposely adding unidentified objects to them.

In a fawning interview with a magazine, the duchess said Archie had told her, “Mama, don’t work too hard”, during the filming of the show. So is this Meghan’s new career now? Whatever happened to that working actress who delivered UN speeches empowering girls to challenge the status quo and who refused to toe the line to the British monarchy.

Well, it seems they should now all be picking their own berries to make homemade jam and using their quiet “bee voices” because that radical feminist has been replaced by a trad wife Instagram influencer peddling uninspiring content with mawkish sentiments and corny platitudes.

Please don’t bless us with a second series, Netflix – a meteor would be preferable.