Netflix today announced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first TV series following their £ 1m deal with the network, which will be a documentary series about the Invictus Games.
The program, Heart of Invictus, will follow participants around the world for the Games in The Hague, which are expected to take place in 2020, but have been delayed until next year due to the pandemic.
Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Productions are teaming up with director Orlando von Einsiedel and producer Joanna Natasegara on the series that the athletes and organizers will follow as they prepare for the event.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, who appears on camera and is an executive producer, has been living in a £ 10 million mansion in Montecito, California, with his wife Meghan, 39, since last summer, after both retired as senior royals. has.
The couple, who also signed a £ 1million deal with Spotify and gave Oprah Winfrey a bomb interview last month, are expecting a baby girl while their son Archie turns two next month.
Commenting on the new show today, Harry said: ‘Since the first Invictus Games in 2014, we have known that each contestant would contribute in their exceptional way to a mosaic of resilience, determination and determination.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex speak to Oprah Winfrey in their bomb-tell-all interview that aired for the first time on March 7
‘This series gives communities around the world a window into the gripping and uplifting stories of these competitors next year to the Netherlands.
As the first series of Archewell Productions with Netflix, in partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation, I could not be more excited for the journey ahead or proud of the Invictus community to continually inspire global healing, human potential and continued service. ‘
Harry previously explained the Netflix and Spotify deals in the Oprah interview, saying, “My family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us.”
Dominic Reid, CEO of the Invictus Games Foundation, said: ‘We are very excited about the opportunity to shine the global spotlight on Netflix on the men and women we work with, to ensure that more people can be inspired. . by their determination and strength to bring about their recovery.
‘This partnership will also provide significant funding for the charity. We are very grateful to our founding patron for his continued efforts to support the military community and to bring about this partnership. ‘
And Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix and chief content officer, said: ‘The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Archewell Productions team are building an ambitious page that reflects the values and causes that are close to their hearts.
‘From the moment I met them, it was clear that the Invictus Games had a very special place in their hearts, and I could not be happier that their first series for Netflix would show it to the world in a way that never been seen before. ‘
The announcement comes hours after Piers Morgan accused the Duke and Duchess of Sussex of ‘complete hypocrisy’ over their interview with Oprah, saying he had the ‘universal support’ of the British public.
Morgan left his job at Good Morning Britain last month after saying he did not believe what Meghan told Oprah.
The duchess said she was being ignored when she expressed her concern about her mental health and that racist remarks had been made before the birth of her son, Archie.
Netflix today announced Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first TV series for the network on the Invictus Games
Prince Harry’s postponed Invictus games in 2020 have been pushed back, were announced today. In the photo: the couple in 2018
In his first TV interview since his departure from Good Morning Britain, Morgan spoke to American conservative news personality Tucker Carlson and stood by his comments, accusing the couple of the ‘most extraordinary insignificant smear, work’ on the royal family.
Piers Morgan beats ‘stand-in weather guy’ Alex Beresford for ‘pre-meditated’ Meghan Markle attack that cost him his job at ITV’s GMB
Piers Morgan accused Alex Beresford of launching ‘premeditated councils’ during their Meghan Markle series, which cost him his job at Good Morning Britain (GMB) in his first TV interview since leaving the show .
The 56-year-old journalist caused a firestorm on social media last month after saying he did not believe a word of what the Duchess said during her extraordinary interview with American chat show legend Oprah Winfrey.
Piers Morgan gave an hour-long interview with the Tucker Carlson Today program on the Fox Nation streaming service
This led to an explosive collision in the air with GM weatherman Beresford, who accused Morgan of ‘messing up’ the Suits actress before storming off the track. Later that day, columnist MailOnline left the ITV breakfast show.
Morgan sat down with American TV presenter Tucker Carlson on Monday to tell ‘MY truth’ about the controversy surrounding his criticism of the Sussexes, and Morgan said Beresford’s comments were part of a ‘premeditated attack’.
During his hour-long interview with the Tucker Carlson Today program on the Fox Nation streaming service, Morgan stopped by Beresford and called the 40-year-old ‘the stand-in-again-old’ and ‘not a journalist’.
He also revealed that he was ‘disappointed’ by his co-host Susanna Reid’s apology after storming the set – but said he believed she was ‘in the grip of fear’ of a ‘big Twitter pile’ ‘acted as she would defend. him.
Morgan even poured cold water on allegations that Meghan had received racist coverage in the British Press, saying ‘I never saw it, I do not believe it’, as he pointed to the media’s positive coverage of the Royal wedding in 2018.
Instead, he doubles down on his original comments, saying he is right not to believe the Duke and Duchess in their interview with Oprah, as 17 of their allegations have since been proven false, exaggerated or unfathomable.
And he said he has the support of the public. Morgan said: ‘Old, young, black, white, it did not matter. They come to me every day all day in my herds. ‘
Morgan said people agree with his comments on Meghan or that they defend his right to freedom of speech. “The British people have been through this,” he told the Tucker Carlson Today program on the Fox Nation streaming service.
Morgan said he has had quite a few job offers since leaving Good Morning Britain and investigating the circumstances surrounding his departure. He walks short of the set after a confrontation with weather presenter Alex Beresford.
Morgan describes his former colleague as ‘the stand-in-weather guy who does the weather occasionally’. He added: ‘He is not a journalist. But he is someone I have helped with his career a few times already when he asked me. ‘
Morgan accused Beresford of ‘premeditated counseling … on a personal level’.
He said he should not have walked off the set. And Morgan addresses his former Good Morning Britain co-host, Susanna Reid, on the aerial statement about his departure. He said he “did not like it very much” but suggested she was “in the grip of fear”.
Morgan added: ‘I honestly think she was in the grip of fear. I think she was afraid that if she went too far to say nice things about me, the same thing could happen to her, that there would be a big Twitter pile. ‘
In his interview with Carlson, which lasted more than an hour, Morgan describes Meghan, who gained notoriety in the TV drama Suits, as the ‘wandering duchess who is going on’.
Morgan criticized the couple for their commercial dealings with the likes of Spotify and Netflix, “they do not earn all this money through talent – Meghan was a good actress in a program that not many people watched”.
And of Harry, Morgan praised his work in the military before adding, ‘What happened to that man? That he turned into this whining brat in his mid-thirties and complains that his father still does not finance everything he does. ‘
Asked by Carlson what the future holds for the Duke (36) and Duchess (39), Morgan said: ‘She has a good record that she disappears all and sundry if they stop being useful to her, so my advice to Harry is to make sure you stay in use.
“And his primary use, it seems to me, is that he has a royal title and that she uses the title mercilessly to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.”
He accused the couple of telling ‘so many ridiculous whoppers’ in their interview with Oprah in March and denied allegations that he was racist because he did not believe them.
He said the interview was ‘tough, tasteless, unobstructed, and I fear that in some cases I am simply lying on a global scale’.
And Morgan uses his appearance in Carlson’s show to track down what he described as the ‘awake mob’, urging the public to ‘get up and say’ no ‘.
He cites Sharon Osbourne’s recent departure from an American chat show as an example of the so-called cancellation culture. Osbourne left The Talk after defending Morgan against allegations of racism over his comments on Meghan.