The Tig 2.0: Meghan launches long-awaited lifestyle and cooking brand ‘American Riviera Orchard’ to coincide with new Netflix show where duchess will be ‘making and selling products such as jams’ – as insiders say book deal and blog are on the horizon

Meghan Markle has launched luxury lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard with a stunning Instagram video.

The Duchess is seen cooking in a stunning rustic kitchen, while a woman’s hands are seen arranging pink and white flowers.

Her new project is said to have been in the works for more than a year – and features ‘all the things that are close to her heart’.

The flash business is set to coincide with the launch of a new cooking show with Meghan for Netflix – where she will make and sell her own products.

It will lead to a book and blog to go along with her cooking shows.

An insider told the Daily Mail: ‘It’s a lifestyle and cooking brand called American Riviera Orchard.

The company will work as an extension of her previous lifestyle blog The Tig, an insider said Page six style.

A source told the US site: ‘She’s been working on this for over a year and it’s all the things that are close to her heart – all the things that she’s passionate about.’

The video starts with a washed out video of a woman arranging white and pink pastel flowers.

It then fades to reveal Meghan cooking in a stunning kitchen, with copper pots hanging over her head as she whips.

It continues with an image of a woman in a long dress, backlit through an Italian-style corridor leading outside.

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