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This is the small detail in Meghan Markle’s cookbook that proves she is immersing herself in British life

The £9.99 book, called Together: Our Community Cookbook, has already become a bestseller on Amazon

MEGHAN Markle’s new charity cookbook to help those affected by Grenfell Tower is already a bestseller, and it hasn’t even been released yet.

But there's a subtle nod in the three-page foreward that shows the Duchess of Sussex, 37, is fully immersing herself in British life.

 The Duchess of Sussex is supporting a new charity cookbook as her first solo endeavour
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The Duchess of Sussex is supporting a new charity cookbook as her first solo endeavourCredit: PA:Press Association

Despite growing up in LA, the American actress chose to use English spellings for the book’s introduction.

This includes writing “favourite” with a “u”, unlike the US version, “favorite”, and also choosing "organisations" instead of "organizations".

It’s likely the book’s foreward will have been edited before it was released but shows Prince Harry’s wife’s dedication to her new country.

The £9.99 book, called Together: Our Community Cookbook, has already become a bestseller on Amazon, as numerous royal fans have rushed to pre-order a copy.

 The Duchess wrote the foreword for the book using English spelling
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The Duchess wrote the foreword for the book using English spelling
 The book contains 50 personal recipes from the women behind the community kitchen
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The book contains 50 personal recipes from the women behind the community kitchen
 The influences and styles for the recipes range from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean
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The influences and styles for the recipes range from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Together: Our Community Cookbook, Waterstones, £9.99 – 

It has even knocked JK Rowling’s latest Robert Gabbraith offering, Lethal White, and Jamie Oliver’s Italy down the charts.

The cook book includes 50 recipes from women who run the Hubb Community Kitchen, an initiative based near the site of the Grenfell Tower in London.

Some of the recipes are family favourites and all have been created by the cooks who support not only residents affected by the fire but others in the community.

 The kitchen was set up in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy
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The kitchen was set up in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedyCredit: PA:Press Association
Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle helps victims of Grenfell tragedy with support for cookbook

The Hubb Community Kitchen was set up to help people affected by the tragedy.

Meghan first visited the kitchen in January and has made a number other private trips to the centre to meet volunteers and learn more about their work.

She discovered that they could only open two days a week due to limited funding, so proposed creating a cookbook to raise money.

Meghan helped put the group in touch with a publisher and her Royal Foundation provided assistance with legal and administrative issues.

 Meghan first visited the kitchen – which ran for two days a week – in January 2018, and continued to make personal visits
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Meghan first visited the kitchen – which ran for two days a week – in January 2018, and continued to make personal visitsCredit: Reuters

Where can I buy the book?

The 128-page book, published by Penguin Random House, is on sale on the website.

The profits from the cookbook will go towards keeping the kitchen open seven days a week.

It’s hoped the book will sell 50,000 copies, and if it reaches this figure it means £250,000 will be raised for the Hubb Community Kitchen.

 is administering the transfer of funds from the sale of ‘Together’ to the Hubb Community Kitchen and related projects.

All proceeds will go back to the Hubb and the book will be available in stores this week.

"I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together," Meghan wrote in a foreword.

"Melding cultural identities under a shared roof, it creates a space to feel a sense of normalcy in its simplest form, the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy something we can all relate to."

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