Channel Seven cashes in on Prince Harry mania by airing 2019 Lifetime movie

Channel Seven capitalized on the publicity blitz surrounding Prince Harry’s explosive new memoir by screening a made-for-TV movie about his love affair with wife Meghan Markle.

The 2019 film Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal aired between 12pm and 2pm on Thursday, just days after Seven broadcast Harry’s interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.

Becoming Royal is the second installment of the ‘Harry & Meghan’ Lifetime movies and continues the Sussexes’ love story during their first year of marriage.

Its release came after the first film in the trilogy, 2018’s Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance, and was followed by 2021’s Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace.

Days earlier, seven viewers had seen Harry’s meeting with his good friend Bradby, which was recorded for ITV and distributed worldwide.

During the 90-minute interview to promote his new book, Harry sensationally accused his family of being ‘complicit’ in the ‘pain and suffering’ inflicted on his wife and compared them to ‘abusers’.

The 2019 film Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal aired between 12pm and 2pm on Thursday, just days after Seven broadcast Harry’s interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.

Becoming Royal is the second installment of the ‘Harry & Meghan’ Lifetime movies, continuing the Sussexes’ love story during their first year of marriage.

Its release came after the first film in the trilogy, 2018’s Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance, and was followed by 2021’s Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace.

He suggested that they helped “smash” his and Meghan’s reputations, forcing them to move to California and have “shown no willingness to reconcile.”

While he accused his family of “sleeping with the devil”, he admitted they were not racist, although he believes them guilty of “unconscious bias”.

Harry was not paid for the interview, which first aired in the UK on Sunday and saw him alternate between answering Bradby’s questions and reading sections of his memoir.

Days earlier, seven viewers had seen Harry’s meeting with his good friend Tom Bradby (right), which was recorded for ITV and distributed worldwide.

During the 90-minute interview to promote his new book, Harry sensationally accused his family of being ‘complicit’ in the ‘suffering’ inflicted on his wife, comparing them to abusers.

In a subsequent interview with CBS’s Anderson Cooper in the US, Harry also had harsh words for Camilla, whom he accused of being a “villain” who “needed to rehabilitate her image” at the expense of her own reputation.

He added that she was ‘dangerous’ and leaked stories to the media in an attempt to win the crown.

Neither the ITV nor CBS interviews fared well in television ratings in Australia, attracting less than half the audience that watched Harry and Meghan’s narration with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.

Harry was not paid for the ITV interview, which first aired in the UK on Sunday and saw him alternate between answering Bradby’s questions and reading sections of his memoir Spare.