The documentary Harry & Meghan is broadcast this Thursday, December 8 on Netflix. While the couple at odds with the royal family are counting on the six-part show to tell their story, there’s also a big bucks story behind this production.
Harry and Meghan are once again shaking up the British royal family. The documentary that bears their names is available from this Thursday, December 8, 2022 on the platform netflix. The six-part production traces the history of the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex, from their meeting to their exile in California through the rupture consumed since 2020 with the British monarchy. It is of course this last part which is expected at the turn after the various accusations brought by the youngest son of King Charles III and his wife against the Firm. But behind the staging of their romance and the sequences that could be like settling scores with the British Crown, it is also a story of money that is at stake with this documentary.
Main protagonists, Harry and Meghan are also the producers of the mini-series. It is their names that are hidden behind the company Archewell Production, which signed an agreement with Netflix in 2020 that could bring in up to $ 100 million over five years for the couple for the distribution of their documentary. While the six episodes of the program have been shot, edited and are ready to be broadcast, the prince and the actress have not yet received a penny of this tidy sum, but the retributions should fall soon.
A nice check, but a price to pay?
100 million dollars is a tidy sum for the production of an autobiographical documentary. Especially since the production is also shown to be a marketing project for the couple. Starified since the formalization of their relationship and strong in their notoriety, the Prince of England and the American actress offer themselves visibility to tell their version of the facts of the family and royal quarrel, without directly confronting the opposing party. . But despite the check for tens of millions of dollars, the couple could pay a high price after the broadcast of their documentary which risks exacerbating tensions within the royal family, just three months to the day of the death of the Queen Elizabeth II. Buckingham Palace found itself in a crisis meeting two days before the release of the series to be ready for any eventuality, while the British press, which is not used to being kind to the ex-royal couple, is ready to make ink flow.