{"id":884689,"date":"2026-10-16T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:30:10","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-shrink-their-hollywood-business-as-layoffs-hit-archewell-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884689\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Shrink Their Hollywood Business as Layoffs Hit Archewell Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> have reportedly been quietly cutting staff at Archewell Productions.<\/p>\n

“They cut staff over the last 12 to 18 months,” an insider told Page Six<\/a> on Thursday, October 15. The source added that so many employees have been let go that the company’s Raleigh Studios office in Los Angeles is now down to just a small number of people.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first round of belt-tightening for the Sussexes: In December 2025, their Archewell Philanthropies arm let go of three employees, which accounted for 60% of the staff. A spokesperson for the couple told Page Six<\/a> at the time that the roles were made redundant and that the move was “inevitable.”<\/p>\n

\"<span<\/p>\n

The latest wave of downsizing comes as questions swirl about the couple’s future in Hollywood<\/a> after their move back to the United Kingdom<\/a> with their children Prince Archie<\/a>, 7, and Princess Lilibet<\/a>, 5.<\/p>\n

Harry, 42, and Meghan, 45, launched Archewell Productions in 2020, not long after stepping back from royal duties and relocating to California. That September, they inked a multi-year deal with Netflix.<\/p>\n

The partnership produced the 2022 docuseries Harry & Meghan, which set a record as the streamer’s biggest documentary debut. In March 2025, Meghan’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan<\/a> premiered, with a second season following in August of that year. Around that time, Netflix scaled back the relationship to a first-look deal, and the streamer has yet to greenlight a third season.<\/p>\n

Netflix also shelled out $3 million in August 2023 for the rights to the novel Meet Me at the Lake, which Archewell Productions planned to turn into a film. Three years later, there haven’t been many updates on its status. In June 2026, author Carley Fortune told Jenna Bush Hager<\/a> on Open Book<\/a> that an unnamed director had been hired, and the project finally appeared to be gaining momentum.<\/p>\n

This story Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Shrink Their Hollywood Business as Layoffs Hit Archewell Productions<\/a> first appeared on InTouch Weekly<\/a>. Follow InTouch Weekly<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly been quietly cutting staff at Archewell Productions. “They cut staff over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-884689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}