While Meghan, Duchess of Sussex might have raised a glass of her branded “As Ever” rosé to toast an unexpected new deal with Netflix, her husband should realise that his own media career is now finished.

Prince Harry was not born to front documentaries. He lacks the charisma to host lifestyle shows, and is wooden as a podcaster. He has neither the talent nor inclination to be a producer or a director. Most surprisingly, the Duke of Sussex appears bereft of the ideas or contacts to generate interesting programme formats.

Lord knows, Netflix executives must have tried. During a five-year, $100m (£74m) partnership with Meghan and Harry’s Archewell Productions, the only project they could really get to fly was Harry & Meghan, the series in which the couple trashed the Royal Family only for Harry to find himself estranged from the King after his father’s cancer diagnosis.

Beyond dishing the dirt on Harry’s relatives, Archewell’s most successful Netflix format has been the Duchess’s cooking show With Love, Meghan, which was monstered by critics, including one who said it was “toe-curlingly unlovable”.

When Archewell was launched in the wake of the couple’s “Megxit” from the Royal Family in 2020, its mission was to “build a better world, one act of compassion at a time”, making shows that would “uplift and unite communities”.
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