{"id":488738,"date":"2026-03-22T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488738\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:31:09","slug":"prince-harrys-friend-slams-spiteful-move-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488738\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry&#8217;s friend slams &#8216;spiteful&#8217; move | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior executives at <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> reportedly warned its CEO, Ted Sarandos, against working with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>. Despite these warnings, Mr Sarandos pushed forward with a $100 million deal, believing it would be successful.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex&#8217;s deal with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> have emerged in recent days after a number of damaging claims appeared in a piece by <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/meghan-markle-harry-netflix-partnership-struggling-1236690802\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Bible, Variety<\/a>. Speaking on an explosive episode of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/daily-expresso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Daily Expresso<\/a> show, host JJ Anisiobi, revealed that all 10 of Sarandos&#8217;s chiefs of staff advised him that the enormous deal was not a good investment. Mr Sarandos was <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2184317\/netflix-ted-Sarandos-harry-meghan-latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly even warned not to &#8220;not work with this woman&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the show, Mr Anisiobi explained: &#8220;Sarandos was warned in advance, &#8216;don&#8217;t do this deal&#8217;. But he&#8217;s the top dog. And he said, &#8216;No, this is going to be great.&#8217; And they released a documentary, Harry and Meghan, and it was super successful, right? The most-watched documentary on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior executives at Netflix reportedly warned its CEO, Ted Sarandos, against working with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,983,173005,5051,70611,124668,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-harry-friend","tag-prince-harry-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry-royal-family","tag-prince-harry-security","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}