Meghan Markle has posted a clip of Prince Harry recreating a Great British Bake Off meme with a lip-sync video alongside US chat show host Stephen Colbert.
The Duke of Sussex and Colbert mimed the famous dialogue between Alison Hammond and contestant Mark Lutton on the Channel 4 show in December 2023.
Harry played the part of Hammond, who had asked Lutton in the original clip: 'If you was treated like a king for the day, what would you want me to do for ya?'.
Colbert mimed the words of Lutton, who has a strong Northern Irish accent and replied to Hammond: 'Um, bake for me probably' - but Hammond misheard him.
Hammond, with her thick Brummie accent, said: 'You'd want me to do what? Beg?' He replied 'bake', then spelt it out before she finally realised what he was saying.
The moment during a Christmas special for the hit show became a viral meme, and was recreated yesterday by Harry and Colbert in a video for The Late Show.
This was posted on Instagram by the Duchess, who has also been promoting her new Netflix special 'With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration' which came out yesterday.
It comes as the Daily Mail revealed Meghan's father Thomas Markle, 81, is in intensive care in hospital after undergoing emergency surgery in the Philippines.
Prince Harry plays the part of Alison Hammond in the Great British Bake Off meme from 2023
The Duke of Sussex filmed the lip-sync video alongside US chat show host Stephen Colbert
Harry mimes the famous dialogue when Hammond misunderstood contestant Mark Lutton
Mr Markle, who has been estranged from his daughter since her marriage to Harry in 2018, was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after being taken gravely ill at home.
He underwent around three hours of surgery yesterday and today remains in the intensive care unit. He now faces a second procedure to remove a blood clot.
During Harry's unexpected appearance on Colbert's show that aired last night, he also made jokes about US President Donald Trump and appeared in a comedy sketch, playing himself as he auditions to become a Hallmark movie 'Christmas prince'.
In the segment, the Duke wandered through the studio, joking that he has become lost while searching for an audition for the 'Gingerbread Christmas Prince saves Christmas in Nebraska'.
Colbert asks why a real prince would want to star in such films, prompting Harry to reply: 'You Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies, and you're clearly obsessed with royalty, so why not?'
When Colbert pushed back on the idea of an American 'obsession,' Harry quipped: 'Really? I hear you elected a king,' in an apparent reference to the 'No Kings' protests directed at the Trump administration.
Referencing CBS' recent settlement with Mr Trump, the Duke joked that he would 'do anything' to get the part, adding: 'I'll record a self-tape, I'll fly myself to an audition, settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House - all the things you people in TV do.'
Colbert replied: 'Hey, I didn't do any of those things,' to which Harry shot back: 'Maybe that's why you're cancelled.'
The sketch then transformed into a festive spectacle, with trees appearing and sleigh bells ringing as Harry urged Colbert to 'just believe'.
Harry made jokes about President Donald Trump during The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Harry played himself as he auditions to become a Hallmark movie 'Christmas prince'
Colbert later told Harry he 'got the role' of 'official Late Show prince of Christmas' to cheers from the crowd.
Colbert's other guests were Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon and Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley.
Yesterday's visit was the Duke's second Late Show appearance, having last appeared in January 2023 to promote his memoir Spare.
Harry's first appearance on the show set a two-year viewership record and made international headlines.
Harry and Meghan have been raising their children in Montecito, California, since announcing they were stepping back as working members of the royal family in January 2020.
But Meghan has been estranged for years from her father Mr Markle, who now faces a major health battle.
His son Thomas Jr said: 'I took dad to a hospital close to our home and they did various scans and the doctors said his life was in imminent danger.
'They raced us by ambulance, with the sirens going, to a much bigger hospital in the centre of the city. My dad has undergone emergency surgery. I would ask everyone around the world to keep him in their thoughts.'
Thomas's daughter Samantha, 61, said she believed the strain of the last few years had taken its toll on her father and added to his fragility.
She said: 'He is a strong man, but he has been through so much. I am praying that he is strong enough to survive this.
Alison Hammond and contestant Mark Lutton on The Great British Bake Off in December 2023
'My father has been through two heart attacks, a stroke and an earthquake. I hope he can pull through this.'
Mr Markle has been in poor health for years. He suffered two heart attacks on the eve of his daughter's wedding which prevented him from getting on a plane from his home in Los Angeles to London.
King Charles ended up walking Meghan part-way down the aisle at St George's Chapel in Windsor, an act Mr Markle later told The Mail on Sunday 'was the most gracious and kind thing to do. I shall be forever in his debt.'
Mr Markle, who has never met his son-in-law or grandchildren Archie, six, or Lilibet, four, suffered a massive stroke in 2022 which left him unable to speak. He regained some speech after months of therapy but has become increasingly frail in recent years.
This week's medical crisis unfolded around the time Prince Harry made a paid speech to a group of estate agents in Canada.
Yesterday, Meghan released her holiday edition of her Netflix show 'With Love, Meghan' in which she stressed the importance of family and friends.
Tom Markle Jr. ,59, who has been his father's primary caregiver since the stroke, said: 'My only wish is that Meghan shows my father some compassion. He is literally fighting for his life.'
Mr Markle and his son moved to the Philippines in January of this year partly, Mr Markle said, to 'escape' from the constant reminders of his estrangement from his daughter.
He told the Mail on Sunday: 'Every day there was some story or other about Meghan and Harry. It was a constant reminder that my daughter is no longer speaking to me. I still do not understand why she continues to ghost me. My only wish is to see my grandchildren before I die.'
Meghan's father Thomas Markle, 81, is in intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery
Thomas Markle at his home in the Philippines in October. He was rushed to hospital on Tuesday
Meghan with mother Doria and father Thomas in a photo in the Sussexes' 2022 Netflix show
Thomas Markle Jr, pictured in 2018, told the Mail that he took his father to hospital on Tuesday
Mr Markle, a retired Emmy-award winning Hollywood lighting director, said his daughter was furious with him when he posed for paparazzi pictures on the eve of her wedding.
He later said he was convinced to pose for the photographs because he believed they would show him in a 'better light'.
He said: 'Meghan and Harry did nothing to prepare me for the attention I was getting. The paparazzi were getting pictures of me every day and they were very unflattering. I believed the photographer when he said putting nice pictures out there would show me in a better light.'
Mr Markle was in hospital after suffering two heart attacks - he had a stent placed in a blocked artery - when he claimed Prince Harry called and chastised him for co-operating with the pictures.
'He and Meghan were angry with me and when I said I was in hospital and had nearly died from two heart attacks they didn't even ask how I was,' Mr Markle said.
'I reached out every way I could. I appealed to them publicly and I wrote private letters. They cut me dead. It broke my heart.'
Mr Markle split from Meghan's mother Doria - the only person from her side of the family to attend the wedding and to whom she remains close - when Meghan was three.
But the pair remained amicable and Meghan lived with her father from the age of 11 to 18 while her mother travelled the world.
Mr Markle later paid the $250,000 tuition costs for Meghan's education at Northwestern University.
He continued to pay off the debt even when she landed her role on the TV drama Suits.
Meghan is seen with restaurateur Will Guidara in the new Netflix Christmas special
Alongside Kelly Zajfen (left) and Lindsay Roth in With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration
By the final season she was earning a reported $40,000 an episode.
Mr Markle said: 'I said I would pay for her education and I did. She went to private schools from kindergarten on. I finished paying her university debt when she was already well established as an actress and making good money.
'But I believed it was my duty as a father to give her the best education and the best start possible in life.'
Before she met Harry, Meghan's blog The Tig was full of praise for her father.
She recounted one story about how he bought two sets of Barbie and Ken dolls on Christmas, one black and one white. He mixed the sets together to create a blended family which mirrored their own.
Later, when she was asked at school about her ethnicity and was given boxes marked 'black or white' she asked her father which box she should check.
He replied: 'Draw your own box.'
Mr Markle said: 'We were always so close. Being shut out of her life is the biggest tragedy of my life. I don't understand what I did so wrong that she never talked to me again. I have been upset at my daughter, I have been angry at her at times - but I have never stopped loving her.'
Mr Markle's son said he expected his father to remain in hospital for 'a long time' and that he would face a 'gruelling' recovery.
He said: 'I would ask Meg, on a week when she has released a TV show talking about the power of love and family, to reach out to our dad. She needs to start showing the compassion she preaches about.'
With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration was out yesterday with a running time of 56 minutes
The duchess with tennis star Naomi Osaka in a segment one reviewer described as 'awkward'
Yesterday, critics slammed the Christmas special of Meghan's Netflix show, with one review calling it 'quite mad and a little bit sad' and another advising viewers to take anti-nausea pills before watching.
The Duchess shares the UK's 'sweet' tradition of pulling crackers and reveals she puts a love letter inside the one she makes for Harry in the episode.
Reviews have been as brutal as they were for the first two series of With Love, Meghan.
The Daily Mail's Annabel Fenwick Elliott branded the special as a 'sad, self-indulgent, cringy wash of beige' and hit out at the duchess for striving 'to be relatable', calling her and tennis star Naomi Osaka's interactions 'thoroughly awkward'.
The Telegraph gave it one star, while the Guardian advised British viewers 'to take as many anti-emetics as medically advisable, then assume the crash position' prior to pressing play.
In the show, Meghan urges people to try to make 'every day' of December 'special' as the year moves to an end, adding: 'But don't feel like you have to do it all.'
She recommends adding wax seals to wrapped presents to elevate them, and letting tree ornaments 'find their light' as she offers up tips for the festive season.
The 56-minute one-off episode comes after the Sussexes signed their new watered-down, first-look deal with the streaming giant in August.
With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration aired on the same day the King and Queen hosted the German state visit, and just hours after the Princess of Wales published a personal letter to guests attending her annual carol concert tomorrow.
