Harry and Meghan ask Netflix cameras into their LA mansion to film Kardashians-style docu-series so streaming giant can get its 'pound of flesh' from $100M deal.

 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are filming an 'at-home docuseries' already branded a royal Keeping Up with the Kardashians for Netflix who have secured their 'pound of flesh' in return for their $100million Megxit streaming deal, it used to be claimed today.

The Sussexes are stated to have welcomed cameras into their $14million Montecito mansion for a reality-type sequence that may want to be in the mildew of The Osbournes - although it is now not but acknowledged if the couple's two children, three-year-old Archie and 11-month-old Lilibet, will additionally feature.

'I suppose it's honest to say that Netflix is getting its pound of flesh,' a Hollywood insider in the recognize about the mission claimed to Page Six.

The at domestic truth exhibit was once pioneered by using The Osbournes, which made Ozzy and Sharon the king and queen of actuality TV in the noughties. The mantle was once then taken on with the aid of the Kardashians, who are now in their 20th season and are worth a collective $1.4billion. The structure would likely go well with Harry and Meghan, who have demanded control over their media messaging for the reason that emigrating in 2020. But they additionally demanded privacy, so a actuality exhibit has raised eyebrows amongst royal specialists who have suggested it is a paradox.

And with just two weeks till the Sussexes all fly into the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the story in the US will increase anxieties at Buckingham Palace that the couple will use it to fireplace extra transatlantic potshots at the Royal Family.

The Queen's aides are said to have already banned Harry and Meghan's camera crews from her palaces as she marks her first-rate 70-year reign. The couple have additionally been barred from the Buckingham Palace balcony for the Changing the Guard on June 2. But the Netflix crew have been following them since remaining year, which includes a trip to New York compared to a royal visit and their outing to The Hague for the Invictus Games in April.

Sources suggest that the Sussexes are angling for the docuseries' broadcast to be delayed till early next year, around the time Harry is predicted to release his tell-all memoirs where he will probably have some other say on Megxit as nicely the Sussexes' claims that an unnamed royal was once racist in the direction of Archie and aides disregarded his spouse when she was once suicidal and pregnant.

'The timing is still being discussed, matters are up in the air,' a 'producer in the know' claimed, including that the cameras had been rolling at their grand home in Montecito.

Royal expert Angela Levin, writer of 2018 e book ‘Harry: Conversations With The Prince’, said today: 'Harry wanted privacy and to be ordinary. He also hated cameras. But he is ended up doing an at home docuseries for Netflix. Does he want to be searched for hidden cameras on Jubilee days? Will he steal the tournament from the Queen?’

Australian royal commentator Daniela Elser said: 'In only four years, the Sussexes have gone from being international darlings, resoundingly loved with desk drawers full of enterprising plans for charity projects, to lowering themselves to proto-Kardashians'.

The 'at-home docuseries' is one of the couple's fundamental media initiatives after Netflix, whose share charge has tumbled after subscribers dropped as the pandemic fizzled out, scrapped Meghan's animated show Pearl about a young girl stimulated with the aid of Meghan who takes on social injustices whilst highlighting the work of feminist icons. The Duchess of Sussex is said to be looking for another broadcaster to purchase it up.

Amid rumours that a fact show used to be in the offing, Meghan's half-sister Samantha Markle said last month: 'They're no longer the Kardashians. That's comparing apples to oranges. The Kardashians were an American enterprise empire and anyone is aware of their background'.

Exclusive DailyMail.com photos taken during Meghan and Harry's time out to New York and New Jersey in September confirmed a crew of two female and one man bundling camera gear hidden under coats and baggage out of the couple's high-end dwelling at 860 United Nations Plaza - and even becoming a member of them in an Airstream van on their way to a veterans' gala.

Another Page Six insider described the plans for the docuseries as Netflix 'getting its pound of flesh' from the Sussexes, who have but to create any actual content for the streaming massive - notwithstanding signing their moneymaking deal with the company in September 2020.

DailyMail.com has reached out to a Netflix spokesperson and Archewell Productions for comment.

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