‘Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal’ features a ‘90s sitcom star

The actress playing Meghan Markle in the new royal telemovie is spot on, but the casting of Prince Charles has raised some eyebrows.

Viewers in the US did a double-take when watching the new telemovie about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle when they realised who was playing Prince Charles.

Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal aired in the US recently and will be shown on Channel 7 tonight at 9pm.

Tiffany Smith plays Meghan Markle and Charlie Field plays Prince Harry in the film which is a follow-up to Lifetime’s Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance.

And viewers were delighted by the casting of Charles Shaughnessy aka Mr Sheffield from The Nanny as Prince Charles.

Charles Shaughnessy plays Prince Charles.

Charles Shaughnessy on The Nanny.

Wait...They got Mr. Sheffield to play Prince Charles?? 👀👀👀👀#BecomingRoyal pic.twitter.com/oWeyEruGt8

— Jennifer (@Paper_Heart_Jen) May 28, 2019

This is so odd seeing Charles Shaughnessy as Prince Charles. He didn’t even change his look. #BecomingRoyal

— Heather Abbott (@HAbbott4) May 29, 2019

Just realized the guy playing Prince Charles is the guy that played Maxwell Sheffield in #TheNanny (I don’t know his name). And now that’s all I can think about 😂 #BecomingRoyal

— Kaitlyn (@kaitlyn231) May 28, 2019

Even the star of the film herself, Tiffany Smith, was caught off-guard by the casting of the ’90s sitcom star.

“I didn’t know everyone who had been cast,” Smith told news.com.au. “I was in the makeup trailer and he came in and he was talking and I was thinking, ‘Man, why does his voice sound so familiar to me?’ And then it was a day later when I went, ‘Oh my gosh, he is Mr Sheffield!’”

Tiffany Smith plays Meghan Markle in the movie.

According to the synopsis, Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal continues the love story of newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, pulling back the curtain to reveal the untold joys and challenges of life inside the royal family during their pivotal first year of marriage.

Given very few people know what actually goes on behind closed doors with the royal family, the scriptwriters have used quite a bit of creative license in the film.

Harry and Meghan: Becoming Royal.

Charlie Field and Tiffany Smith.

“You get to see them (Harry and Meghan) do a lot of things publicly and in front of an audience and what really had to fill in were the gaps,” Smith told news.com.au.

Some of the “gaps” the film attempts to fill in are how Meghan told Harry she was pregnant, how Meghan was welcomed to Buckingham Palace and even what the Queen is like at playing charades.

So I am curious how the producers of #BecomingRoyal know all of these little details happened. Argument, how she told him she was pregnant, etc. Did they interview them or guessing? 🤔

— Brandy Smythe (@BeeS215) May 28, 2019

I swear lifetime will take a news clip or piece of tabloid gossip and make a whole world out of it 😜come on we don't know the inside and neither do you 🙄#BecomingRoyal

— Ivy league (@luvmebeautyluv) May 28, 2019

I doubt even half of this is accurate. For entertainment purposes mainly. 🍿 #BecomingRoyal

— Tam (@iamclonefree) May 28, 2019

I feel like they wrote this script directly from Twitter #BecomingRoyal

— Erin KM (@ErinKM23) May 28, 2019

Despite some of the creative scenes, Smith told news.com.au that she hopes the real Meghan and Harry would get a kick out of the movie.

“As an actress, if somebody did a movie about me, I would have to watch it,” she said.

“It was really important to me that we portrayed them in a really beautiful way. I hope that if they watched it they would feel uplifted and they would really feel a joy out of watching a piece of their story.”

Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 7