It all went so wrong. “There’s a feeling that the Sussexes could have done things differently, but they ignored good advice from people who knew better,” explains the source.
“Netflix got what it wanted out of them – their love story, including why and how they left the royal family,” which they chronicled in their first project for the streamer, the 2022 series Harry & Meghan. It remains Netflix’s most-watched documentary debut to date.
The problem, the source added, is that after that juicy endeavor, “Harry and Meghan didn’t have great ideas, and their value diminished.”
Netflix also partnered with Markle on the April launch of As Ever, her limited product line of fruit spreads, teas, cookies, honey, crêpe mix and flower sprinkles.
But according to a July 24 report, her newest offering, a rosé wine that debuted on July 1 with a minimum purchase requirement of three bottles for $90, was selling poorly enough that it became yet another “nail in the coffin” for the Netflix deal.
It’s far from their first failure.
The couple’s lucrative Spotify deal – reports at the time described it as worth as much as $20 million– ended prematurely in 2023 after just a single season of Markle’s first podcast, Archetypes.
In June, Markle said her second podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, which Lemonada Media debuted in April, wouldn’t be back for a second season – at least not yet.
