At home with Meghan.. just not HER home: Duchess rents 5m reality TV mansion a stone’s throw from her own Montecito mansion for new Netflix cookery show – kitted out with a 15,000 range, 600 pans and chopping boards a snip at 60 each! [Video]

20:59 EST 02 Jan 2025, updated 08:20 EST 03 Jan 2025

When the Duchess of Sussex revealed she was making a Netflix cooking show, the actress-turned-royal promised viewers an intimate ‘at home with Meghan’ experience with ‘wonder in every moment’.

But MailOnline can reveal she has chosen to film the eight-episode series ‘With Love, Meghan’ in a kitchen and home that isn’t her own – despite living around the corner.

The 43-year-old duchess chose a sprawling estate just two miles from the £11million Montecito property she shares with Prince Harry and their children, Archie and Lilibet. 

The mansion where her Netflix show was filmed last year, an idyllic $8million (£5million) estate nestled within a gated community, boasts eight acres of avocado trees and lemon groves and is owned by Montecito’s influential Cipolla family.

Tom and Sherrie Cipolla, fixtures in the high society circles of the American Riviera, are both in their 70s. They are prominent philanthropists with a $20million property portfolio, …