Meghan Markle spent years convincing America she was too good for the royal family.
Now Netflix has decided she is not quite good enough for them either.
And a comedian just explained exactly how a Duchess ends up slinging jam in Target.
With Love Meghan Ranked 1124th on Netflix
The Duchess of Sussex launched With Love, Meghan in March 2025 with all the fanfare of a coronation.
By August, Season 2 had collapsed to 1,124th on Netflix's most-watched list – below Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir and reruns of Downton Abbey.
Two million viewers.
For a woman who once had the entire planet watching her wedding.
Netflix confirmed on March 6 that it was pulling its investment from As Ever, the lifestyle brand Meghan built alongside the show.
The statement from Netflix was technically polite and completely devastating – they were "glad to have played a role" and looked forward to watching her succeed "independently."
That is the corporate version of "Don't let the door hit you."
Industry insiders were less diplomatic.
A source told Page Six the math was simple: since "her show did not go on," keeping the brand partnership made no sense.
Tim Dillon Called the As Ever Lifestyle Brand a Failure
Comedian Tim Dillon has been the most accurate forecaster of the Meghan Markle trajectory in America, and he told David Spade and Dana Carvey exactly what happened on their podcast this week.
"She's failed at the Martha Stewart route, which she wanted," Dillon said. "She was slinging jam in Target."
A woman who had a $100 million Netflix deal, who posed for Vogue covers, who gave Oprah an interview seen by 50 million people.
Dillon said the whole show was built on a lie.
"I think her idea was to come back to America and say, 'Listen, the British are really racist. But they do know a lot about dinner parties, and I've learned that. So I'm here to tell you how to live like a human being and what fork to use.'"
He called the Netflix show condescending – a woman explaining to American audiences what a saucer is, as if they were animals who had never seen a coffee cup.
"I think people got a little turned off by that," Dillon said.
They did.
Why Meghan Markle Failed Where Martha Stewart Succeeded
This is not the first celebrity to believe that fame, grievance, and a lifestyle brand could replace an actual skill.
Blake Lively launched a Gwyneth Paltrow-style website in 2014 with a Vogue cover story attached.
It folded within a year.
Jessica Simpson tried edible cosmetics that gave customers yeast infections.
The audience has to believe the person actually lives that life.
Martha Stewart built a billion-dollar empire because she was genuinely obsessed with thread count and pie crust temperature.
Gwyneth Paltrow – whatever you think of jade eggs and $75 candles – is clearly a woman who would pay someone $2,000 to steam her uterus.
Meghan Markle cooked jam in a Montecito mansion while telling Americans they needed to learn how to set a table.
The audience figured out the difference fast.
The Duchess of Sussex After Netflix Drops As Ever
Dillon speculated she may end up with a talk show – which is probably right, because talk shows reward the ability to make things about yourself, and that is genuinely Meghan's greatest skill.
She could also go back to Suits.
She already signed on for Suits LA, according to recent reports, despite having told the world she was done with acting after her royal exit.
That is the Meghan Markle move in its purest form – announce a dramatic farewell, then quietly return when the next thing does not work.
The raspberry spread still retails for $14 a jar – roughly three times what you would pay for a comparable product at any grocery store in America.
Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, called Meghan "underestimated" in a Variety cover story in March 2025.
He said people were "fascinated" with her.
A year later, Netflix pulled its equity stake from her jam company.
Ted Sarandos is a man who spent nine figures on the Sussexes and ended up explaining to reporters why he was glad to have played a role.
Tim Dillon saw the whole arc from the beginning: a woman who found a way to be a victim while living in a castle, married to a prince, with a streaming empire behind her, selling jam to people she considered beneath her.
The audience figured it out before Netflix did.
Sources:
- Lauryn Overhultz, "Meghan Markle's failed Martha Stewart dreams mocked by comedian," Fox News, April 10, 2026.
- "Netflix Withdraws Its Investment In Meghan Markle Lifestyle Brand As Ever," Deadline, March 6, 2026.
- "Netflix Out as Investor in Meghan Markle Brand As Ever," Variety, March 6, 2026.
- "Meghan Markle's Netflix show fails to crack top 1,000 most-watched programmes," Hello!, January 22, 2026.
- Tim Dillon, Megyn Kelly, "Tim Dillon Makes the Case for Why Meghan Markle Is a 'Huckster,'" MegynKelly.com, April 11, 2025.