Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, surprised the world with some of their business deals.
However, according to former staff members of the philanthropist, she might have had some surprises for her own spouse.
People, who were in close collaboration with Meghan Markle, dropped the bombshell via Page Six that she had been working on her Netflix project with David Furnish years before she stepped down from her royal duties and relocated to California with her family.
According to Meghan Markle’s team members, she and Furnish were in contact with the streaming service since 2018 and had active conversations about the projects.
The revelation left many baffled because Prince Harry shared another story during the controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey.
With his wife sitting by his side, Prince Harry explained that they never thought about signing deals with Netflix and Spotify until they left London in early 2020.
He said that friends suggested talking to the company to pay for their security, and Prince Charles cut him off financially.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, lamented: “I never part of the plan. That was suggested by somebody else to the point of where my family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us.”
Prince Harry went on to say: “I’ve got what my mum left me, and without that, we would not have been able to do this. What about streamers?'”
Meghan Markle jumped in to reveal: “We genuinely hadn’t thought about it before.”
The Duke of Sussex added: “We hadn’t thought about it. So, there were all sorts of different options. And look, from my perspective, all I needed was enough money to be able to pay for security to keep my family safe.'”
Recent reports suggest that the multimillion deals the Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed with streaming behemoths Netflix and Spotify might not be as glorious as the couple previously promised.
Even though Meghan Markle and Prince Harry brought the news about their deals with Netflix and Spotify about a year ago, so far, they have not produced much.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Meghan Markle disclosed some information about one of the Netflix projects that she and Prince Harry supposedly worked on — an animated series titled Pearl that would tell the story of a 12-year-old girl and her “heroic adventures.”
Apparently, with the news of Pearl, the number of projects that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are working on increased to two — the other one being Heart of Invictus — a documentary series that will reportedly follow the events surrounding the 2022 Invictus Games.
It appears that a lot of fans of the royal family are currently wondering how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex secured their lucrative £36m, close to 50 million dollars, contracts with Spotify when so far they have created only one 30-minute episode on “Archewell Audio.”
Professor Simone Ferriani, media expert, claimed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry probably signed lucrative contracts in order to establish their brand on the field, not to produce quality material.
The entrepreneurship expert stated, “Content-wise, I don’t think there’s any special capability as Harry and Meghan’s production company – as far as I know – has not developed anything so far, so they literally have zero production experience” and concluded that the lucrative contracts looked like a “big marketing hook.”
