Netflix Boss Shuts Down Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Rumours

Netflix is once again shutting down speculation about its relationship with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

The streaming giant famously signed a big-money deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2021, around a year after their announcement that they were stepping away from their responsibilities as senior royals.

In the five years since, the couple have collaborated with Netflix on a number of occasions with varying levels of success, most notably on the documentary Harry & Meghan, a behind-the-scenes series about the Invictus Games and the polarising lifestyle series With Love, Meghan.

Earlier this week, Variety published a lengthy piece suggesting there’d been a “falling out” between Netflix and the Sussexes, which it blamed on poor viewing figures for the couple’s projects and bosses supposedly being “blindsided” when Meghan chose to do a sit-down TV interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.

Bela Bajaria, the chief content officer at Netflix, responded on Wednesday, urging people not to “believe whatever you read”.

“Maybe we should all do a little fact-checking,” she said, as reported by People magazine, insisting that the two parties still have a relationship and that Netflix is currently developing multiple films with Harry and Meghan.

She also pointed out that Netflix deals “come and go all the time”, but few have received as much attention in the media as Harry’s and Meghan’s “for obvious reasons”.

“I guess there’s no juicy story there,” she added.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Harry and Meghan said earlier this week that it was “categorically false” that Netflix was not made aware of the couple’s plans to be interviewed on network television by Oprah Winfrey.

In Variety’s original reporting, a Netflix spokesperson also said it was “not accurate” that details from the documentary Harry & Meghan were requested to be removed so that they would be fresh in the subsequent release of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare.

Undisclosed “sources” told the outlet instead that these details were asked to be omitted from the doc out of respect for the Royal Family in light of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.