Odds On What Meghan Markle Will Do Next

_{The Duchess of Sussex, is making headlines again with her latest Netflix documentary. (Image: PA Images / Alamy)}

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is a name rarely out of the news, such is the case after her viral return to Instagram at the beginning of the year and her new Netflix documentary series aired.

While many still know her as Meghan Markle, the duchess made it obvious in the new show, With Love, Meghan, that she is now Sussex.

During a conversation with her friend, actress Mindy Kaling, she said: "It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I'm Sussex now." The moment was one glimpse into Meghan's personal life that fans have plenty of access to via the new series. 

The release of With Love, Meghan comes as she is gearing up to launch her new lifestyle brand, As Ever, and the star has teamed up with Netflix to announce the first products.

Herbal peppermint tea, a crepe mix, flower sprinkles, and raspberry spread are among Meghan's new offerings, which will be available to purchase on As Ever's official website this spring.

Meghan's latest series and her new brand have sparked speculation about what her other future business ventures might look like.

Mama Meals

In the documentary series, Meghan talks a lot about food.

The duchess discusses how she loves cooking breakfasts for her and Prince Harry's two children, Archie and Lilibet, and says he also makes a "really good breakfast."

She says, "I find when I'm cooking bacon, my kitchen very immediately becomes full of a husband and three dogs."

Elsewhere in the series, she says on a couple of occasions that her "love language" is food. She explains in episode six: "I love feeding people. I think it’s probably my love language.

"Even before I was a mom, I loved being able to nurture in that way. Some of my favourite childhood memories are the meals that my mom would make. She’d make a lot of soul food.

"I want my kids to have those same formative memories of things that I cook. We call them Mama Meals, and those are the ones that I hope they come back to when they’re older, when they’re married, and they have their kids."

One way of keeping her signature dishes going could be to open her restaurant – and Mama Meals would be a fantastic name for an eatery.

Meghan is 6/4 to open her bar or restaurant next, and if she did, then one menu option would surely be the famous roast chicken she made Harry on the night he proposed to her. What's more, she is 4/1 to open her own frozen yoghurt, ice cream, or doughnut shop.

In With Love, Meghan talks about some of her previous jobs, which included being an employee at Los Angeles frozen yoghurt shop Humphrey Yogart and a doughnut seller. If she were to open a frozen yoghurt or doughnut shop now, this could be somewhere she could sell her jam range.

_{Meghan's new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, offers a personal glimpse into her life. (Image: ZUMA Press Inc / Alamy)}

Meghan previously sent strawberry jam from her American Riviera Orchard brand to friends Mindy, Kris Jenner, Tracee Ellis Ross, Chrissy Teigen, and John Legend, among others.

High St Meghan

Elsewhere in her new Netflix series, Meghan discusses her love of fashion—but admits she enjoys the high street as well as designer gear.

During the doc, she tells Mindy she likes to match affordable items with designer pieces. Could this inspire Meghan to create her own fashion brand soon? She is 2/1 to do so, and one of her offerings could be a dupe of the pencil skirt worn by her former character Rachel Zane.

She played the part for seven seasons in the legal drama Suits, and Meghan admits in her new series that Rachel's pencil skirt from episode one was the "one thing" she kept.

What's more, in With Love, Meghan's first episode, the star tells fans how she loves to make "a tea bag for the bath" out of salts, and she also visits a florist to pick up some blooms.

She's 5/2 to create her own bath salt range off the back of the doc, and 5/1 to start up a flower arranging business, after revealing in the series that flower arranging is one of her new hobbies.

Meghan has also previously dabbled in children's books, penning the picture book The Bench in 2021, and she's 3/1 to follow that up with another tome. But could a return to acting be on the cards? 

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Meg's Acting Comeback

The former CSI: NY star retired from the acting business upon her marriage to Harry in 2018.

However, in her new documentary show, she tells how she enjoyed the "consistency" of having a steady job in Suits from 2011 to 2018. While it looks unlikely for now, Meghan is 9/2 to return to acting.

If not, she could play out her character in real life to some extent by studying to be an attorney next (6/1).

In Suits, Rachel started off as a paralegal, but she eventually became an attorney, and Meghan would be in excellent company in Hollywood.

George Clooney's wife, Amal Clooney, is a barrister who specialises in international law and human rights; Kim Kardashian is training to be a lawyer, like her late father, Robert Kardashian. 

The reality TV queen announced her new career move in 2018, and last November, Kim posted a picture of herself bespectacled and studying. She captioned the image: "Law school."

But if that's not for Meghan, then she could always go into politics next, after previously dabbling in the diplomatic service.

_{Meghan Markle was best known for her role as Rachel Zane in Suits—and she still treasures that iconic pencil skirt. (Image: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy)}

During her younger years, Meghan interned as a junior press officer at the American embassy in Buenos Aires, but, according to Andrew Morton's 2018 biography Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, the duchess failed the three-hour Foreign Service Officer Test, which is a mix of politics, general knowledge, history, and maths.

She's 8/1 to launch a political career next, but perhaps she could turn one of her new hobbies into a career instead?

Mahjong Fan Meghan

In With Love, Meghan, the former actress, tells how she often plays the ancient Chinese strategy game Mahjong with her pals, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Tracy Robbins, and Victoria Jackson.

She explains, "What I’ve come to really love about Mahjong is that the game itself is really fun, but what was so great was the idea of learning something new together with your friends."

"It’s the feeling of community. It's become special for all of us. We’re all at such different chapters in our lives. It's wonderful that it’s just as meaningful for me as it is for Victoria or Tracy or Jennifer. We all really like it."

Meghan is 10/1 to become a professional Mahjong player, and while that seems somewhat unlikely, it is more likely she embarks on that career move than re-joins the Royal Family on a full-time basis anytime soon.

While it may happen one day, returning to full-time royal duties (33/1) looks to be one of the last things on Meghan's mind as she gears up to expand her new brand.