{"id":865268,"date":"2026-08-23T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865268\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:18:12","slug":"meghan-markle-duchess-of-sussex-reportedly-dropped-from-acting-role-in-the-gentlemen-following-intense-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865268\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex reportedly dropped from acting role in The Gentlemen following \u2018intense backlash\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle<\/a> has been reportedly dropped from a plum acting role in the upcoming third season of Netflix series The Gentlemen.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex had been in talks<\/a> to star in director Guy Ritchie\u2019s<\/a> popular drama series, according to several reports, however hours later it emerged her rumoured casting had been promptly withdrawn.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle starred as Rachel Zane on the popular legal drama Suits.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and royal expert Tina Brown<\/a> wrote on X: \u00a0\u201cI learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie\u2019s\u00a0Netflix\u00a0series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a> earlier reported that the former senior royal was in advanced discussions to join the cast for the third season, but the decision was not yet official.<\/p>\n

The series is scheduled to film in the UK\u2019s Cotswolds, where Markle and husband Prince Harry are rumoured to be moving with their children.<\/p>\n

In a shock backtrack,\u00a0Harry\u00a0and Meghan are said to be returning to the UK to live and have enrolled\u00a0Prince Archie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Princess Lilibet<\/a>\u00a0in a British school, where they will begin next month.<\/p>\n

However, the latest announcement may have thrown these plans into \u201cchaos\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are planning to return to the UK.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers told Today that Markle was hoping to make this role her official return to acting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a little bit sorry for her… because the backlash, who is this coming from?\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne must think what a chaotic period for not only the Sussexes, but everyone around them at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndustry insiders are still saying there will be people queueing up to sign her, she\u2019s still a big name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markle found fame on the popular legal drama Suits before marrying Prince Harry and temporarily joining the British royal family.<\/p>\n

She also appeared in a short-lived Netflix lifestyle series, Made With Love, Meghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle has been reportedly dropped from a plum acting role in the upcoming third season of Netflix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-865268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}