Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s multi-million-dollar Netflix deal is rumoured to be ending in September, with the couple taking a major financial blow
Prince Harry and Meghan’s Netflix contract is reportedly ending in September(Image: PA)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are taking a “big risk” after reports their Netflix deal is not being renewed. It is understood the Sussexes penned a multi-million-dollar deal with the streaming giant in 2020.
The contract was said to have been worth around $100 million and saw them producing a raft of content, including the Harry and Meghan docuseries. However the follow-up programmes failed to echo its success, with reports With Love, Meghan, failed to make the top 300 most-watched shows for 2025.
The couple’s deal with Spotify, thought to be worth around $20 million, was “mutually” scrapped in 2023.They released Archetypes, presented by Meghan on the platform, which reached number one in the streaming charts.
Daily Mail Royal Editor Rebecca English has now questioned what the Sussexes next move will be. She believes that relying mostly on Meghan’s As Ever lifestyle brand poses a “big risk”.
Speaking on the Palace Confidential, she said: “Harry’s got a couple of paying gigs now, he’s still the Chief Impact Officer of the therapy company Better Up, he’s got his travel firm, but these are not the sort of things that would pay for or afford the sort of lifestyle they have become used to.
“You have to ask yourself, is another book in the offing or are they literally betting everything on the As Ever brand and the rose and jams and teas affording that lifestyle in the future, that is a big risk.”
The Daily Mail’s Diary Editor Richard Eden believes it is “dawning” on the Sussexes that they could have had taxpayer-funded security as well as multiple homes if they stayed as working Royals. However the couple decided to step down from their roles in 2020 to start a new life in Montecito, California.
Eden said: “Remember, if they’d stayed in the Royal Family, what they would have had. You would have had all that security, paid for by taxpayers, they would have had a home in Scotland, a home in London, a country home, all that would have come with their positions.
“They’ve chosen to give that up and I think it might be slowly dawning on Harry and Meghan what they have lost.”
Harry and Meghan now live in California(Image: Getty Images for 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala)
While there has been no official statement from Netflix, a source told The Sun that the deal had “run its course”.
They added: “Netflix execs are well aware Meghan’s priority now is her own brand, and they won’t play second fiddle to that.
“Publicly, there will not be a statement, and of course, if things change dramatically, they’d be open to a one-off project down the line. But for Harry, especially, this will be a blow. It’s a huge loss of revenue.”
Prince Harry and Meghan’s representatives have been contacted for a comment.
