Netflix deal, looking like it may be over for H&M

[Thedom]

The rumours have been doing the rounds for a while, but Puck News now reporting it, which means it is very likely that their contract with Netflix will not be renewed.

"The streamer is not expected to renew its five-year, $100 million deal signed in 2020 with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Meghan’s passion project, the animated kids show Pearl, has already been canceled, and the unscripted cooking and polo offerings didn’t connect the way the royal couple’s Harry & Meghan did. "

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Prince Philip is known for his outrageous racist comments

Using the present tense would suggest you didn't.

He attacked Camilla and Catherine so I really don’t see how he can have a ‘seat at the table’ ( to quote his missus) within the RF, when KC and PW and their wives head up that table.

Have a friend who is a black cab driver. Prince Philip had one apparently and used to go and meet up with them in some cafe (caff!!) to get the mood of what was happening. He said they had nothing but praise for him and came out when he died or at his funeral (sorry can’t remember) in their cabs to honour him. I was surprised that he was so well regarded tbh!

I agree with this. I hope they haven’t split for their children’s sake at least. Parents on different continents cannot be good for the dcs.

Agreed.

....for money.
How low can you go?

I don’t see how they can be living separately though. The Press would have got wind of it somehow and anyway how could they possibly afford another household with separate security at each? I don’t believe that. Harry probably has to come back to the UK if he wants to live apart from Meghan as he’ll have more chance of being given a free house somewhere and maybe some security, if not the level he’s used to. He will then have to pay for Meghan and the children to live in the US and for their security, presumably from his inheritance. The timing is interesting as it coincides with him inheriting from the QM. So maybe he feels he would be in a better position to pay maintenance now. He would get the children sent out from America in school holidays I’m guessing. After all he takes enough private jets himself as it is. Of course all of this could be made up nonsense, but judging by the interaction and body language in their two ‘tours’, things aren’t going well for him. Meghan ordering him to hold her hand for a start.

On the other hand watching a miserable, sidelined father being humiliated by their mother isn’t good for them either. Neither is being estranged from all the family apart from one grandmother.

They were fools to think that their popularity and fame was anything other than their links to the royal family. Hubris.

Yes I can see that also. When you are estranged from both sides it starts looking like the problem is you. However after the some of the Markles have behaved I’m not sure I blame Meghan for being estranged. Still a bit odd though not to meet your potential father in law before the wedding!

What about the children being completely cut off from their father’s side?

That’s not what the Mail reported. They reported Harry didn’t wish to come back permanently but to spend some more time in the Uk and start doing working royal activities.

so half in half out. What they’ve always wanted

i tnink this is no more than they have failed so miserably in the us, they realise being royal is where the money is for them, so if Harry can get back in then they can monetise it. No more. No less.

half in half out has always been their desire as they know that’s where the money is for them. They need to capatilise on it.

i think they will now attempt harry is a working royal and Megan isn’t, she can then leverage it to make money and he tags along with her. The royals still won’t allow it, they’d be idiots to

He really needs the royal connections. What is he without them?
However, he'll be too tempted to sell more secrets/privacy if they let him back in, so it's high risk for them.

The issue might be also that even if Harry comes back alone, Meghan will be milking the children for inside info every time they visit, to use for her own ends.

@GorgeousTulips I actually think that that (H & M getting closer to royal info through their kids) will be a problem when A & L are grown up as well. The RF won't want to rebuff them, I expect, but also would anticipate that anything they say to A & L would get back to their parents and, from there, out into the world...

Also, everything, even innocuous remarks, will get interpreted in a negative way, to support the continuing victimhood narrative.

Again, no one is suggesting this is a split or he’s coming back permanently or alone. Simply he wants to spend more time here and wishes to be a working royal, or at least be part of it all. He will continue to live in the us.

It's impossible to be a part time working royal when he lives in the US and has dragged his family through the mud. He wants the tax payer to fund his lifestyle whilst he cuts a few ribbons here now and then . Disgusting.

Much as the DM is criticised, it very often has more than a grain of truth in their articles . I understand that Richard Kay has good contacts within the Institution.

Agree. But it’s what they’ve always wanted. Half in half out. From day 1. That’s what they requested. There is nothing new here. They are just trying again

Harry doesn't seem to realise the RF don't need him. The country doesn't need him 🤷‍♀️ He is placing too high a value on himself.

I think for so long he had this incredible status; he had so many doors open, so many opportunities, he was feted wherever he went, the RF protected him, he lived in luxury at others' expense. It must be quite a change of lifestyle.

Everything else aside, isn’t it just very low rent to go about as a ‘royal’ couple flogging pay-tv shows, jam and handbags?

I know Sarah Ferguson stooped, but let’s face it, she’s been a figure of fun for years.

I don’t see how a close-ish heir to the throne can imagine anyone’s going to think well of him and Meghan for this. Apart from some gullible Americans I suppose.

Well, the change of lifestyle was what he wanted . It’s not like he wanted to try out veganism and realised he didn’t like it and is now free to eat a sausage, is it?

I have to say though, they have proper shit the bed. They left and went all guns blazing, thinking they were the big I am, so important, and outfits like Spotify, and Netflix chucking money at them, Oprah wanting to do their interview, the hype was enormous and they beleived it, not for one moment could they see what most others could see, it was all about the selling royal gossip , the modern day Edward and Mrs Simpson wanting to cash in.

and now it’s all over and no one wants to touch them. They are trying to crawl back, but they shit the bed so hard there is no one is going to get in it with then, much less the royals.