Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ‘s decision to step back as senior royals is set to be made into a film.
Lifetime have announced it will be making a third made-for-TV movie under the working title Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace, which will follow the recent events surrounding the Sussexes’ fairytale romance.
The US cable channel has already released two flicks about the couple, Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance and Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal.
According to the official synopsis, Harry & Meghan Escaping the Palace will dramatise “the couple’s controversial conscious uncoupling from the crown, after the birth of their son Archie,” according to TVLine, and “details the struggles of the new parents and unique challenges of being part of the royal family, which ultimately led Harry and Meghan to give up their royal ties to forge a new life on their own terms.”
While no other specifics were announced, it’s likely the film will capture all the events that followed during the first year of Archie’s life as the couple publicly announced plans to become financially independent, the fallout within the family and their move to California, where they now reside.
rince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to step back as senior royals is set to be made into a film (Image: Getty Images)
The third film follows 2018’s Harry and Meghan: A Royal Romance, which explored the couple’s first encounter and blossoming relationship leading all the way up to their highly publicised wedding.
Its 2019 sequel, Harry and Meghan: Becoming Royal, pulled back the curtain to reveal the untold joys and challenges of life inside the royal family during their pivotal first year of marriage.
Lifetime used different actors in the first and second Harry and Meghan flicks, so it’s entirely possible that they’ll recast once again for the third.
Previously, Parisa Fitz-Henley and Tiffany Marie Smith played Meghan, opposite Murray Fraser and Charlie Field as Prince Harry.
Lifetime have announced it will be making a made-for-TV movie under the working title Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace (Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage)
It’s unclear when the movie will debut—or even when it’ll go into production, given that Hollywood has been shut down amid the pandemic.
The announcement of the third movie comes days after HarperCollins Publishers revealed that it has acquired the world rights for Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, a biography by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand that “goes beyond the headlines” to reveal unknown details of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life together.
Prince Harry and Meghan’s exit from their roles as senior royals happened on March 31.
After announcing their intention to step down in January, they revealed that they would work to become “financially independent”.
The US cable channel has already released two flicks about the couple titled Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance and Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal (Image: Getty Images)
The couple, who have in a short space of time relocated from Windsor, to Vancouver Island and now to Los Angeles, revealed that they will be “privately funding” their own security.
Prince Harry dated former Suits actress Meghan for more than two years before they announced an engagement in November 2017.
They got married on May 19, 2018 and later welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in May 2019.
Since leaving the Royal Family, Meghan has already provided a voiceover in a Disney documentary about elephants, and is working with The Gersh Agency to secure future roles.
However, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, film and TV production has largely been put on hold across Hollywood.
Maybe Meghan will end up playing herself in the pending Lifetime movie?
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
