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Meghan's With Love, Meghan Table Setting, Shopped

Every napkin, bowl, plate and cutlery set behind Meghan's tablescapes in With Love, Meghan, from Anthropologie linens to a French Astier de Villatte bowl.

Court & Capital Editorial 7 min read
An elegant table setting with fine flatware, glassware and floral arrangements, in the spirit of Meghan's tablescapes on With Love, Meghan.
An elegant table setting with fine flatware, glassware and floral arrangements, in the spirit of Meghan's tablescapes on With Love, Meghan.

If Meghan’s kitchen has become required viewing, her table setting is the real masterclass. Across With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex lays her table with the same considered eye she brings to everything else on the show: pink Anthropologie linens for a tea party, unfussy Crate & Barrel china for everyday suppers, and one French bowl worth more than the meal served in it. Viewers have spent two seasons quietly identifying every piece.

Meghan has said her own approach to a table is to keep it “simple and crisp,” building out from white linens and letting flowers and a little gilt do the rest. What plays out on screen bears that out: nothing shouts, but everything is chosen.

Here is the full, verified breakdown of the table setting from With Love, Meghan, napkins to cutlery, and how to bring pieces of it to your own table.

The Anthropologie napkins and runner that started it all

The single most-shopped table-setting moment of the series arrived early: a tea party laid with Anthropologie’s Madeline napkins, a set of four in dusky pink, at £43, alongside the matching Madeline table runner at £58. Laid over a plain cloth with simple white china, the pink linens did most of the visual work: proof that a tablescape lives or dies on its textiles, not its price tag.

It is a classically Meghan move: reach for one directional colour and let it anchor the whole table. The Madeline collection has since become one of Anthropologie’s most searched-for homeware lines, entirely on the strength of this one scene, and it remains the easiest single purchase for recreating the look at home.

Crate & Barrel: the everyday china doing the heavy lifting

Beneath the occasional statement piece, the bulk of Meghan’s tableware is reassuringly ordinary. The coffee mug she and guests drink from throughout the series is Crate & Barrel’s Dover mug, a plain 12-ounce white porcelain piece at around £12. The bowls used to serve mixed vegetables in the very first episode are Crate & Barrel’s Mercer white porcelain low bowls, sold individually for a few pounds each or as a set of six, and the same Mercer line supplies the blue-rimmed dinner plates, sold in sets of eight.

It is a deliberately unshowy choice, and a telling one: a Duchess with access to any tableware in the world builds her everyday table around an accessible American high-street brand, saving the splurges for a handful of pieces that actually earn them.

A sweeter note: the Tulip ice cream bowls and the honey pot

Two smaller Crate & Barrel and Anthropologie pieces round out the dessert course. The scalloped Tulip ice cream dishes, sold for well under a pound each, appear whenever pudding is served, their fluted edge doing a lot of charm for very little outlay. On the table for tea, meanwhile, sits Anthropologie’s glass honey pot with dipper, around £18, a small tactile detail that turns a jar of honey into part of the display rather than an afterthought.

Neither piece is expensive, and that is rather the point: the finishing touches on Meghan’s table are as likely to come from a bargain aisle as a French atelier.

The heirloom on the table: an Astier de Villatte bowl

Our companion piece on the homeware from With Love, Meghan touched on the hand-thrown Astier de Villatte ‘Adélaïde’ bowl Meghan keeps filled with strawberries on her kitchen island. On the table, it does a different job: brought out as the centrepiece bowl for fruit and set pieces, the crackle-glazed white ceramic with its raised berry motif is unmistakably the room’s most expensive object, with the maker’s large bowls starting upwards of £300.

Astier de Villatte is a Paris ceramics house whose pieces are cast in nineteenth-century moulds and hand-finished, so no two are quite identical. It is the sort of considered splurge that anchors a whole table the way a good rug anchors a room.

A teapot with real pedigree: Grace’s Teaware ‘Violet Chintz’

For tea itself, Meghan reaches for Grace’s Teaware’s ‘Violet Chintz’ teapot, a vintage-inspired piece printed with a dense floral chintz pattern in violet and green, the sort of design that looks like a family heirloom even when it is a contemporary reissue. The pattern has proven so popular since the episode aired that the teapot has repeatedly sold out, with fans tracking restocks the way they might a limited-run handbag.

It is a useful reminder that “chintz” needn’t mean fussy: set against Meghan’s otherwise pared-back table, one patterned teapot reads as warmth rather than clutter.

Setting a place for the smallest guest

Among the most charming table-setting details in the series are the pieces sized for children. Earth & Element’s Blue Floral collection, a hand-painted blue-and-white pattern, supplies both a butter dish, around £52, and a smaller kid’s cup, around £32, alongside the brand’s blue floral plate that turns up elsewhere on the table. Setting a proper, pretty place for a child rather than reaching for plastic is a small gesture that says a great deal about how Meghan treats her table: everyone gets the same care, regardless of age.

The Blue Floral line sits comfortably alongside the show’s other blue-and-white china, giving the family table a cohesive, cottage-y warmth without a single piece matching exactly.

Texture and handmade charm: Pottery Barn and Stoffer Home

Two smaller stoneware ranges give Meghan’s table its handmade texture. Pottery Barn’s Artisan handcrafted bowl, rustic, unevenly glazed, deliberately imperfect, appears among the serving pieces, while Stoffer Home’s ‘Quinn’ stoneware bowls, sold for just a few pounds each, are the small bowls Meghan and a guest eat dumplings from in one of the series’ warmer, more informal scenes.

Both ranges lean into the current appetite for visibly handmade ceramics: pieces that look thrown by hand rather than stamped from a mould, in soft, food-friendly neutrals. Paired with the crisper Crate & Barrel and Anthropologie pieces, they stop the table from ever looking too matched, too perfect, or too much like a catalogue shoot.

The cutlery holding it together: Soho Home’s ‘Elgin’ set

The flatware running through the series is Soho Home’s ‘Elgin’ cutlery, an Edwardian-inspired design in ridged stainless steel with a deliberately antiqued patina, engraved with the Soho Home mark. It is a considered choice rather than an incidental one: where much of the table leans casual and mix-and-match, the cutlery brings a note of proper, old-world formality, sold as a set of five place-setting pieces at a time.

Soho Home, the interiors arm of Soho House, is a fitting source for it, too. Meghan has been a long-standing member of the private members’ club, and the Elgin range is one of its most enduring bestsellers.

Why the table matters as much as the food

What ties every piece together is not a colour scheme so much as an attitude: nothing on Meghan’s table is there purely to be looked at. The Astier de Villatte bowl holds actual strawberries; the Anthropologie linens get actually used, actually laundered, actually reached for again. It is a tablescape built for a working table rather than a photograph, which is precisely why so much of it has proven so shoppable: every piece was chosen to be lived with.

For the cookware and kitchen pieces behind the scenes, our companion piece on the homeware from With Love, Meghan rounds out the story, alongside the two aprons Meghan wears on the show. Browse more of our British Living stories for the homely side of royal-adjacent life.

Frequently asked questions

What napkins does Meghan Markle use in With Love, Meghan?

She uses Anthropologie’s Madeline napkins in pink, sold as a set of four, laid alongside the matching Madeline table runner for a tea party scene early in the series.

What plates and bowls are used in With Love, Meghan?

The everyday china is largely Crate & Barrel’s Mercer collection, white porcelain low bowls and blue-rimmed dinner plates, alongside pieces from Earth & Element’s hand-painted Blue Floral range.

What is the expensive bowl on Meghan Markle’s table?

The standout piece is Astier de Villatte’s ‘Adélaïde’ bowl, a hand-thrown, crackle-glazed French ceramic piece with large sizes starting upwards of £300, used to hold fruit on her kitchen island and table.

What cutlery does Meghan Markle use on the show?

The flatware is Soho Home’s ‘Elgin’ set, an Edwardian-inspired stainless-steel design with a ridged handle and antiqued patina, sold as a five-piece place setting.

What teapot does Meghan Markle use in With Love, Meghan?

She serves tea from Grace’s Teaware’s ‘Violet Chintz’ teapot, a vintage-inspired floral design that has repeatedly sold out since the episode featuring it first aired.

Are the table-setting pieces from With Love, Meghan still available to buy?

Most pieces, including the Anthropologie linens and Crate & Barrel china, remain in general circulation, though a few, including Grace’s Teaware’s teapot and a Pottery Barn bowl, have sold out or been discontinued and may only surface secondhand.

How can I recreate Meghan’s table setting at home?

Start with one directional linen, such as a coloured napkin set, over simple white china, then add a single considered splurge, a hand-thrown bowl or patterned teapot, and mix in a few handmade stoneware pieces for texture. The look depends on restraint more than expense.

Prices and availability are correct as of 2026 based on retailer listings and coverage of With Love, Meghan; ranges change, so check each retailer for current stock.

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