The spectacular Netflix series of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been nominated for a Hollywood award.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex launched their $100 million docuseries Harry & Meghan with the streaming giant last December, which became the second-highest-ranked documentary on Netflix, behind The Tinder Swindler.
Meghan & Harry, directed by Liz Garbus, was the first project to emerge from the multi-year deal the couple signed with the streaming giant in 2020, shortly after announcing they would step down as active members of the royal family.
Now, the series has been nominated for a Hollywood Critics Award in the category of Best Nonfiction Broadcasting.
Announcing the news on Twitter, the organization revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are taking on Prehistoric Planet 2, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, Rennervations, The 1619 Project, and The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell Netflix series has been nominated for a Hollywood award
The nominees were chosen through an anonymous voting process by the HCA TV Awards Committee, which consists of 27 members.
The committee is made up of a group of 180 different members of the association, and it is unknown which 27 members made the decision regarding the Sussexes’ nomination.
The HCA TV Awards Committee and members of the Television Branch will also vote for the winners beginning July 18, 2023.
It is currently unknown when the award ceremony will be.
Meghan and Harry used their $100 million deal with the streaming giant to launch jabs at the Royal Family and Britain in shows that are being described as transatlantic “TV bombs” being dropped at The Firm.
The privacy-conscious couple have delivered a trove of photos and videos of their relationship, including the moment Harry proposed in 2017 and filming himself in the Heathrow lounge when he emigrated in March 2020.
The first three episodes contained a number of barbs that are believed to have upset his father, King Charles III, including Harry’s claim that he was ‘literally raised’ by a ‘second family’ in Africa, where he chose to spend three-year terms. months into her late teens and early twenties when she came to terms with her mother’s death.
Harry also describes a “great level of unconscious bias” in the royal family, with reference to Princess Michael of Kent wearing an offensive Blackamoor-style brooch in front of her wife at Buckingham Palace.
There is also a suggestion that the UK is racist and more obsessed with race than the US, with Meghan declaring that she “wasn’t really treated as a black woman” until she came to Britain.
And in a jab at his male relatives’ choice of wives, seen as an attack on his father and other royals, perhaps even his brother William, Harry insisted that his decision to marry Meghan sets him apart. from her family because it was ‘from her heart’ and not because she would ‘fit the mold’.

Meghan & Harry, directed by Liz Garbus, was the first project to emerge from the multi-year deal the couple signed with the streaming giant in 2020, shortly after announcing they would step down as active members of the royal family.
He said that the fact that his wife was an American actress “clouded” his family’s view of her, and they believed that she would not last.
The news comes after sources claimed that the couple are in talks to present a new Netflix documentary that will see them meeting with communities in South Africa.
He sunday mirror reported that Prince Harry and Meghan will be shown helping to build houses in the villages they will visit with the series intended to take a ‘humane’ approach as Meghan raises awareness of safe birth practices.
A source told the newspaper: ‘The cameras will continue to [The Sussexes] while visiting campuses and sharing medical education.’
They added that the production will be a combined project of Netflix and the couple’s Archewell Foundation.
The source revealed: “Meghan is particularly interested in sharing information about giving birth safely with the women she knows.”
Harry and Meghan’s reported project in South Africa will be their third joint venture with Netflix, following their explosive six-part docuseries in December 2022 and their ‘Live to Lead’ series, which aired on New Year’s Eve in 2022.
It will follow the couple’s ‘return to South Africa’, according to the source, following their royal tour which saw them visit the nation in 2019.
During the tour, the couple met community members in Cape Town’s townships while traveling with Prince Archie, and were photographed smiling and laughing as they danced with the locals.
Meanwhile, earlier this week, Meghan could be seen snuggling with her daughter Lilibet as they attended a Fourth of July parade in a video shared by a hotel owned by a friend of the Sussexes.
Prince Harry was photographed with his two-year-old daughter last week at the event in Montecito.
In a clip shared by local Rosewood Miramar Beach hotel days after promoting its Fourth of July celebration, Meghan can be seen alongside her husband and daughter as they wave to passersby.
The luxurious five-star hotel is owned by businessman Rick Caruso, who previously revealed how he first met the couple in May 2020 to discuss “charity work” and his future plans.
According The timesMeghan and Harry have since dined at the exclusive hotel, while the Duchess’s ex-husband Trevor also got married on the premises.
The clip shared by the hotel, which has 93,000 followers on Instagram, shows a car in the parade driving down the road, while those inside waved to parade spectators.
After a clip showing Meghan, Harry and Lilibet, the video moved on to the barbecue being held at the hotel for the celebration.
Other clips showed the beachfront bar, as well as a huge USA sign being covered in balloons.
The video, which is less than a minute long, was shared along with the caption: “A little Miramar magic for the 4th of July!”
Vanity Fair reported in 2020 that Meghan and Harry had been “making friends” with the hotel owner.
The couple reportedly met with the businessman and Caruso told him Vanity Fair: “I was very impressed with both. They are surprisingly realistic. We talked about his charity work and the work my company does.
“We share many things that we would like to do to improve people’s lives. We are very lucky to have them.