Archie and Lilibet will not appear in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new Netflix shows, which explore the couple’s love of “polo, gardening, entertainment and friendship.”
Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, made the announcement two new non-fiction Netflix shows, which are part of the ongoing £80 million deal with Netflix last week.
In one series, the Duke of Sussex delves into the world of professional polo, a sport he has played since childhood.
Meanwhile, the Duchess will focus on lifestyle-oriented topics such as gardening and cooking, in a way that will likely allow her to promote her new brand American Riviera Orchard.
But Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, will not appear in the shows, The sun reports.
Meghan and Harry pictured with son Archie in Cape Town in 2019. The couple are said to have decided not to include Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, in their new Netflix series
Harry pictured himself kissing Meghan as she presented him with a trophy after a polo match in Florida in April. One of the series of the new show will be dedicated to the sport
Harry and Meghan pictured with Archie and Lilibet for their 2021 Christmas card
The couple has rarely appeared in public, with the exception of official photos and a brief appearance in Harry and Meghan’s 2022 Netflix documentary.
The new shows will also be filmed outside the couple’s £11million mansion, with camera crews instead heading to a neighbour’s house in Montecito, California.
The announcement of the Sussexes’ latest Netflix series came less than a year after the couple revealed plans to produce a film adaptation of Carley Fortune’s Meet Me At The Lake, which reflects their personal story and features a character whose parent dies in a car accident.
Sources previously described the book as “right up their alley” because they “love love stories and rom-coms.”
The Sussexes wanted to tell their own ‘love story’ in their smash 2022 Netflix documentary ‘Harry & Meghan’.
In the first series of the new programme, Meghan celebrates ‘the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship’.
The show is produced by The Intellectual Property Corporation of Sony Pictures Television, the company behind Hulu’s The D’Amelio Show and A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the Invictus Games One Year To Go event in Canada in February
The new series, which is part of the ongoing $100 million deal with Netflix, will see the couple explore gardening and cooking, as well as polo (Pictured: Harry and Meghan gardening in 2020)
The second series will focus on the glitzy world of polo, with the prince (pictured, with Prince William in 2014) joining Meghan and Pysnik as executive producer on the second project.
The series is produced by Boardwalk Pictures, which is also behind the hit Netflix shows Chef’s Table, Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? and Sex, Love & Goop (photo: Harry at the Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany in September 2023)
The Duchess of Sussex will become executive producer for Archewell, alongside Chanel Pysnik, the company’s head of non-fiction.
Meanwhile, the second series will focus on the glitzy world of polo, with the prince joining Meghan and Pysnik as executive producer for the second project.
The series is produced by Boardwalk Pictures, which is also behind the hit Netflix shows Chef’s Table, Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? and sex, love and fuss.
The film was shot primarily during the US Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Florida, at the USPA National Polo Center.
The show goes behind the scenes of the sport and explores what it takes to compete at the highest level.
It’s a subject that Harry is extremely well versed in, having played the sport since he was a child – with both his father, King Charles, and his brother Prince William, also known to be big fans of the game.
The move comes despite committing to a £3million film adaptation of romance novel Meet Me At The Lake
Last month it emerged that the royal family would be put in a ‘difficult position’ when Prince Harry’s Invictus Games returns to Britain for the first time since he and Meghan moved to the US (pictured: the couple at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf in 2023 )
Senior royals should take a stand if they support the event, which they did at the first games in 2014 (pictured) when then-Prince Charles, Camilla and Prince William appeared alongside Harry for the opening ceremony
Last month it emerged that the royal family would be put in a ‘difficult position’ if Prince Harry’s Invictus Games returned to Britain for the first time since he and Meghan moved to the US.
Senior royals should take a stand if they support the event, which they did at the first games in 2014 when then-Prince Charles, Camilla and Prince William appeared alongside Harry for the opening ceremony.
Meanwhile, the Duke of Sussex said he would not feel comfortable bringing his wife and their children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, to Britain if he could not appeal a recent ruling that reduced his taxpayer-funded personal security. he visits Britain.