Meghan Markle-Backed Hubb Kitchen Halts Work
A community food initiative championed by Meghan Markle during her time as a working royal has ended its operations, with the west London-based Hubb Community Kitchen confirming its work has stopped. The group, formed after the Grenfell Tower fire, was supported by the Duchess of Sussex through visits and a high-profile cookbook collaboration.
Hello Magazine reported that a spokesperson for the Hubb Community Kitchen said the organisation’s work had “stopped”, after the project’s momentum appeared to wane in the years following Meghan and Prince Harry’s decision to step back from royal duties and move to the United States in 2020.
The kitchen began when volunteers, including survivors linked to Al Manaar mosque, cooked for bereaved families in the aftermath of the 2017 tragedy, which killed 72 people. Meghan, now 44, helped raise the profile of the group in 2018 when she collaborated with The Royal Foundation and Penguin Random House on Together: Our Community Cookbook, and hosted its launch at Kensington Palace attended by her mother, Ms Doria Ragland.
In 2020, the Duchess joined a video call from Los Angeles to mark the third anniversary of the fire, praising the volunteers for “put[ting] love in action” and calling them an “example of love in action”. Her last known outreach was reported to be in 2022, when the organisation shared on Facebook that it received a voice message from the Duchess on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy.
The closure comes as Meghan’s charitable activity has largely shifted to projects in California and through the Archewell Foundation, as she and the Duke of Sussex continue their work outside the royal system.
