Archie and Lilibet will not appear in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new Netflix shows, which will explore the couple’s love of “polo, gardening, entertaining and friendship.”
Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, announced the two new nonfiction Netflix sample, which are part of the couple’s current £80m deal with Netflix, last week.
In a series, the Duke of Sussex will enter the world of professional polo, a sport he has practiced since he was a child.
Meanwhile, the duchess will focus on lifestyle topics such as gardening and cooking, in a move that will likely allow her to cross-promote her new American Riviera Orchard brand.
But Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, will not appear in the shows. Sun reports.
Meghan and Harry photographed with their son Archie in Cape Town in 2019. The couple reportedly decided not to include Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, in their new Netflix series.
Harry was photographed kissing Meghan as she presented him with a trophy after a polo match in Florida in April. One of the series of the new program will be dedicated to sports
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 photographs and a brief screening in Harry and Meghan’s 2022 Netflix documentary.
The new shows will also be filmed outside the couple’s £11million mansion, with camera crews heading to a neighbour’s home 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 echoes their personal story and includes a character whose father dies in a car accident.
Sources previously described the book as “great for them” because “they love love stories and romantic comedies.”
Famously, the Sussexes wanted to tell their own ‘love story’ in their explosive 2022 Netflix documentary ‘Harry & Meghan’.
In the first series of the new show, Meghan will “celebrate the pleasures of cooking, gardening, entertaining and friendship.”
The show is being produced by Sony Pictures Television’s The Intellectual Property Corporation, 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 couple’s 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 will be produced by Boardwalk Pictures, who are also behind the hit Netflix shows Chef’s Table, Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? and Sex, Love & Goop (pictured: Harry at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany, in September 2023)
The Duchess of Sussex will executive produce 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 of the second project.
The series will be produced by Boardwalk Pictures, who are also behind the hit Netflix shows Chef’s Table, Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? and Sex, love and goop.
It was primarily shot during the US Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Florida, at the USPA National Polo Center.
The show will go behind the scenes of the sport and explore what it takes to compete at the highest level.
It’s a topic Harry is well versed in, having played the sport since he was a child; Both his father, King Charles, and his brother, Prince William, are also firm fans of the game.
The move comes despite committing to a £3m 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” if Prince Harry’s Invictus Games returned to the UK for the first time since he and Meghan moved to the US (pictured: the couple at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf in 2023)
Royals would have to 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 the UK for the first time since he and Meghan moved to the US.
Royals would have to 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 children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, to Britain if he could not appeal a recent ruling that downgraded his taxpayer-funded personal security when visiting Britain.