Netflix cancels its documentary on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

It is urgent to wait. This is the logic of Netflix with the documentary on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, while season 5 of The Crown already cringe. To avoid offending the royal family even more, the broadcast of the program co-produced by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex via their company Archewell, whose title has not yet been revealed, has therefore been postponed.

No date had yet been announced, but there was talk of scheduling it just a few weeks after the broadcast of the series on the reign of Elizabeth II.

“They are shaken at Netflix, they wanted to take the lead and decided to postpone the documentary,” a source told Deadline.

Nonsense

Concerns about the documentary relate to heavily criticized scenes in The Crown. One, in particular, shows then-Prime Minister John Major and then-Prince Charles trying to force Queen Elizabeth II to abdicate in favor of her son.

Nonsense, according to the former British Prime Minister, who copiously crushed the program.

“It’s a barrel of nonsense, in damaging and malicious fiction,” he said in a statement relayed by CNN.

“Discussions between the monarch and the Prime Minister are completely private and – for Sir John – will always remain so. But none of the scenes you describe are accurate in any way. They are purely and simply fiction. There was never any discussion between Sir John and the then Prince of Wales about the late Queen Elizabeth II’s possible abdication – and the Prince of Wales (or Sir John) never raised this unlikely subject and moved,” added a spokesperson for John Major.

As for the documentary series produced by the Sussexes, there is no doubt that it also reserves its share of controversies and reproaches towards the British monarchy.