Royal biographer, Tina Brown has claimed that the royal family has an “amazing convening power”, but “all of that is gone” for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after they resigned from their royal duties. Ms. Brown also suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s resignations have not gone according to plan and also talked down their Netflix and Spotify deals.
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Speaking in a recent chat with Washington Post Live, Ms. Brown said, “They both completely underestimated what it was going to be like to be without the palace platform. The palace has amazing convening power, every major invitation in the world comes through that conduit.
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All of that is now gone. Meghan doesn’t really have a brand – you feel that she is grasping at the ‘Twitter caring‘ of the moment. Vaccinations, Ukraine, Women’s rights, my 40th birthday, let’s have a mentoring scheme.
Nothing is really going anywhere for Meghan”. She went on, “And the whole problem, with entertainment deal is you have to produce. They’ve signed with Netflix but what have we seen? Nothing. Creating entertainment that works is very hard to do. Their Spotify podcast is going nowhere. Netflix is not doing so well are they going to renew that contract?”
The Sussexes infamously resigned from their royal duties over two years ago and moved to America soon after. The royal couple eventually secured profitable contracts with Netflix and Spotify after their resignation. However, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have only published a single podcast episode on Spotify.
And this has raised eyebrows among the public. In March, Meghan Markle launched her first podcast series known as Archetypes. The former ‘suits’ star will be talking to people who have experienced being stereotyped. Speaking about the series, the mother-of-two said, “This is how we talk about women: the words that raise our girls, and how the media reflects women back to us… but where do these stereotypes come from?
And how do they keep showing up and defining our lives? This is Archetypes – the podcast where we dissect, explore, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back. I’ll have conversations with women who know all too well how these typecasts shape our narratives. And I’ll talk to historians to understand how we even got here in the first place.”
