Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reportedly been dealt another blow with a major project formerly in the works now being axed.
It’s the title I’m sorry about. My guess would have been it being called something like Flower. We, the good burghers of the internet, have today been denied ever reading the tell-all, feeling-feelings-all-over-a-page book long-mooted to be coming from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.
‘Flower’ was not only the duchess’ childhood nickname but you could really make the floral metaphor do some heavy lifting: Meghan, the rare bloom, transplanted to stony British soil where she wilted and withered. Now replanted in her homeland and watered by the nourishing balm of authentic support and all the cashew milk fit to drink, she has truly blossomed. It basically writes itself.
But no. Now Page Six has now claimed that despite Meghan and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s 2021 publishing deal supposedly being for three titles – one from the duke, one from the duchess and one from both of them – “there are no plans for any more books”.
It’s been reported that there are currently no plans for a tell-all book from Meghan Markle. Photo: Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP.
This is a surprise because it’s not like a Meghan book wouldn’t sell better and faster than some sizzling hot cakes fresh out of the oven. Harry’s Spare set a Guinness World Record and was the highest selling book in the UK last year. (Consider: In 2023, 707,000 Brits paid about $28 a pop to read about why a native born son found UK life so intolerable he had to relocate to the shadow of a Jamba Juice.)
What, you might ask, of the duchess’ most major bit of 2024 career developing and evolving, her lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard (ARO)? The concept and name was announced in March with a highly stylised Instagram video using a font best described as Westchester pony club. Then, a month after that, the duchess did an ultra exclusive and sugary jam drop to 50 select Hollywood and society sorts.
Meghan is focusing on other pursuits, according to a report from Page Six. Photo: RAUL ARBOLEDA / AFP.
Unfortunately, since then, we have been stuck in an ARO vacuum, all question marks and shrugging. In that same Page Six story as today’s book claims, it was reported that the ARO launch is “still up in the air.” One Sussex source said: “That is a whole other story.” In April a California-based source told the Mail that an “The initial CEO search has not panned out so far”. Then in August, the Mail’s Alison Bosshoff reported that “It is believed that Netflix … is taking over the commercial exploitation of the brand”.
After all, the streamer has some serious skin in the Sussex game. The figure bandied around with an abandon that is plenty gleeful is that the couple’s 2020 deal is worth about $USD100 million ($147 million). Except in August, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Mail “It was never the huge payday that the Press reported.”
“Rather than a massive lump sum” they were reportedly only paid about $4.4 million “to cover the overheads of Archewell” and “of which the Sussexes will keep a small portion personally.” In February, Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria enthused, “they actually have, like a bunch in development” only for, later the same month, the Mail to report that according to “a source with knowledge of the [Netflix] situation”, the “deal is a dead duck”.
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