Prince Harry Unexpectedly Crashes Meghan Markle’s Netflix Holiday Special at the Perfect Moment

Prince Harry knew just when to make a cameo in Meghan Markle’s Netflix holiday special.

With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration premiered on Netflix on Dec. 3, and the Duke of Sussex, 41, dropped onto the set just as Meghan was cooking her mother Doria Ragland’s beloved Christmas Eve gumbo with Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio.

As Meghan, 44, stirred the pot at the stove, Harry suddenly wandered into the kitchen with a breezy, “Hi, guys!” — and immediately leaned in to kiss his wife.

“I was like, there’s somebody buzzing around! This is my husband,” Meghan laughed as she introduced Harry to Colicchio. She explained she was “making my mom’s gumbo,” and Harry said he could tell by the scent alone.

Meanwhile, Colicchio was assembling a salad full of Harry’s least favorite ingredients — beets, black olives, fennel, anchovies and pickled vegetables — prompting the prince to deadpan, “Oh wow, that’s like the anti-salad.”

“Everything you hate,” Colicchio teased back. (Earlier, Meghan had told him: “If I gave you the top things my husband hates to eat — beets is one of them, though he would call them beetroot as they say in England, black olives, fennel and pickled vegetables.”)

Harry then revealed why he’d timed his cameo so perfectly: “You must have known that I was coming. And gumbo for me is like one of my favorites, especially her mom’s. But before the fish goes in.”

“She always saves a little portion on the side for him,” Meghan noted of Doria’s sweet tradition.

When Harry tasted Meghan’s slightly spicier version, his reaction was instant: “I can feel it puncturing through the top of my head!” — before admitting: “I’m not so sure it’s as good as your mom’s, but it’s certainly close.”

“What?! Oh my gosh,” Meghan said, bursting into laughter. “Well, my mom will love you for that. You know what? What a good thing to say for your mother-in-law.”

Elsewhere in the festive special, Meghan welcomes guests including tennis champion Naomi Osaka, hospitality expert Will Guidara and close friends Kelly McKee Zajfen and Lindsay Jill Roth for holiday crafts, cooking and conversation.

The special installment follows seasons one and two of With Love, Meghan on Netflix, which premiered earlier this year and showed Meghan share her longtime passions for cooking, creating, gardening and entertaining. 

Harry’s cameo marks a notable return for the Duke of Sussex, who last appeared in the Season 1 finale of With Love, Meghan, but sat out Season 2. The holiday edition continues Meghan’s expanding Netflix lifestyle franchise, following a headline-making 2025 that included her comeback to Instagram and the launch of her As Ever brand.

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While appearing at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. in October, Meghan was asked whether there would be a third season of her show.

“Well, the holiday special is coming out in November. It’s a really good one,” she said about what to expect.

With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration is now streaming on Netflix.