Losing ‘truth bombs’ may blow up Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal

Without their spicy little ‘truth bombs’ about the royals, Harry and Meghan have nothing to sell Netflix, argues Joe Hildebrand.

Just when you thought 2022 couldn’t get any better, it emerged this week that Netflix has shelved Harry and Meghan’s documentary series and may even axe the $US100m love-in altogether.

It’s enough to make a blind man want to see again!

Apparently Netflix has postponed the Harry and Meghan release after the angry backlash from viewers to the latest season of The Crown because it depicted some less than savoury aspects of the royal family.

This is about the dumbest reason one can think of for sparing the world another Megxit monstrosity but, hey, why look a gift horse in the mouth?

And, indeed, the reason itself is the perfect exemplar of the Gordian knot of narcissism and hypocrisy in which Harry and Meghan and Netflix are bound.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Picture: Misan Harriman

Already we had heard reports that Harry was desperately trying to tone down his memoir out of “respect” for the Queen. Apparently having failed to spare his grandmother the ignominy of he and Meghan’s endless airing of the royals’ dirty laundry while Her Maj was alive, he’s decided to do the decent thing now the old girl’s dead. What a guy!

But herein lies the rub, because apart from being absurdly precious and overprivileged brats with the capacity to dump a bucket on the House of Windsor, Harry and Meghan have no discernible talents that set them apart from anybody else.

And, so, if they’re not dropping their spicy little “truth bombs” about the royals, what on earth is the point of listening to them?

But as Netflix has just found out from the public response to a fictionalised depiction of the royals, any criticism of the royals will be met with global fury.

And thus poetic justice has finally come for Harry and Meghan: They can no longer be nasty and nobody cares if they’re nice.

Maybe God really is on the King’s side after all.

Originally published as Losing ‘truth bombs’ may blow up Harry and Meghan’s Netflix deal