Fans and foes agree that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken measures to protect the privacy of their young children.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are the proud parents of Archie, three, and Lilibet Diana, who will be one year old on June 4th.
Archie has been seen in public about three or four times since birth. As for Lilibet Diana — she has only one picture released to the media.
For Christmas 2021, the couple shared an adorable holiday card where Lilibet Diana appeared in a lovely white dress and smiling from ear to ear as her mother held her.
However, now, some royal experts wonder how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will navigate their decision to keep their children away from the spotlight and appear in a docuseries/reality show.
This week, sources close to Markle and Prince Harry, who are apparently working on the Netflix project, spoke to Page Six.
In 2020, the pair signed a massive deal with Netflix that is rumored to be worth $100 million and has yet to produce anything.
Recently, Markle saw her first project, an animated series entitled Pearl, canceled by the company that has been hit with hard times, (a massive exodus of subscribers has led to the firing of hundreds of employees).
The people in the know said that the streaming giant would finally get the bang for their buck with the series. The royal renegades have accepted to film a series that will focus on life in their lavish $14 million California mansion.
The show, which is expected to show intimate details about the Suxesses’ lives, will air later this year or early 2023.
The goal is to release the program around the same time as Prince Harry’s memoir.
The Sussex duo’s big splash on the little screen has raised the alarm bells — many are asking, how much will they reveal about themselves?
Will the children, who were guarded all their lives, make an appearance? Will there be revelations about the royal family?
Royal biographer Angela Levin shared her thoughts on the series by saying, “it’s just really tacky,” and asked a few questions about the children’s participation.
Will the pair be forced to have the children on the show to keep their contract with the company?
She said: “We don’t know if they’re going to show their children that they’ve guarded so carefully and secretly. They might insist on that. If the money’s right or they risk losing their contract again, I presume they will do that.”
She added: “The thing is if you allow people in, they’re very experienced at getting what they want and cutting out a lot of the stuff for the people that are photographing what they want. They get an image, and it might be a disastrous one for them. It really has got such a bad taste to it.”
Thus far, there has been no information on whether Netflix has been authorized to feature Archie and Lilibet in the series.
The news comes just days after the Duke of Sussex teamed up with a foundation to talk about the negative effects of the digital world on children.
Prince Harry said that he was concerned for Archie and Lilibet and added: “As parents, my wife and I are concerned about the next generation growing up in a world where they are treated as digital experiments for companies to make money and where things like hatred and harm are somehow normalized. We want our children and all children to feel empowered to speak up.”
He continued: “I’m not an expert on law or technology, but I am a father—and I’m lucky enough to be a father with a platform. My kids are too young to have experienced the online world yet, and I hope they never have to experience it as it exists now. No kid should have to.”
Fans are waiting to see if the power couple can deliver great content.
