Everybody makes mistakes—but when you’re constantly under the scrutiny of the public eye, it can be hard to navigate those speed bumps. What has Duchess Meghan learned from those imperfect moments? “You learn not to do it again,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar for our December 2025/January 2026 cover story.
The Duchess of Sussex goes on to clarify, adding: “If it all goes swimmingly, you don’t learn from it. If you don’t learn anything, you’re not going to grow.”
With the launch of her recent lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan, the duchess might come across like the picture of perfect California cool. She moves around a serene Montecito, California, farm house, making homemade jams and putting together crafts for her kids, all while sporting quiet-luxury staples that sell out the minute viewers catch wind of the labels. But for Meghan, it’s never about maintaining an air of perfection.
“There’s also not a lot of fun in trying to be perfect,” she tells Bazaar. “I don’t like things that feel overly realized. If you overwork the dough, it’s not going to rise. And sometimes I think the stress that people put on moments… they are so consumed in them that you lose the fun of why you are doing something.”
For Meghan, it all comes down to being able to drown out the noise. She says: “I think the moment that you start making all of your personal decisions based on external judgment, then you lose your authenticity.”
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