Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell Netflix series has been nominated for a Hollywood award.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released their $100million docuseries Harry & Meghan with the streaming giant last December, which became Netflix’s second-highest ranked documentary ever – behind The Tinder Swindler.
Meghan & Harry, directed by Liz Garbus, was the first project to emerge from the multi-year deal the couple signed with the streaming giant back in 2020, shortly after they announced they were stepping down as working members of the Royal Family.
Now the series has been nominated for a Hollywood Critics Award in the Best Streaming Nonfiction category.
Announcing the news on Twitter, the organisation revealed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are up against Prehistoric Planet 2, Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss, Rennervations, The 1619 Project and The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell Netflix series has been nominated for a Hollywood award
Nominees were chosen using an anonymous voting process from the HCA’s TV Awards Committee, which comprises of 27 members.
The committee is formed from a group of 180 different members of the association, and it’s unknown which 27 members made the decision with regard to the Sussexes’ nomination.
The HCA TV Awards Committee and Television Branch members will also vote on the winners beginning from July 18, 2023.
It’s currently unknown when the award ceremony will be.
Meghan and Harry used their $100million deal with the streaming giant to launch swipes at the Royal Family and Britain in shows being described as transatlantic ‘TV bombs’ hurled at The Firm.
The privacy-conscious couple handed over a trove of pictures and video from their relationship including the moment Harry proposed in 2017 and filming himself in the VIP lounge at Heathrow as he emigrated in March 2020.
The first three episodes contained a series of barbs that are believed to have upset his father King Charles III, including Harry’s claim that he was ‘literally brought up’ by a ‘second family’ in Africa where he chose to spend three-month stints in his late teens and twenties as he came to terms with his mother’s death.
Harry also describes a ‘huge level of unconscious bias’ in the Royal Family – with reference to Princess Michael of Kent wearing an offensive Blackamoor-style brooch in front of his wife at Buckingham Palace.
There is also a suggestion that the UK is racist and more obsessed with race than the US, with Meghan declaring that she ‘wasn’t really treated like a black woman’ until she came to Britain.
And in a swipe at the choice of wives by his male relatives, viewed as an attack on his father and other senior royals, perhaps even his brother William, Harry insisted that his decision to marry Meghan sets him apart from his family because it was ‘from his heart’ and not because she ‘would fit the mould’.
Meghan & Harry, directed by Liz Garbus, was the first project to emerge from the multi-year deal the couple signed with the streaming giant back in 2020, shortly after they announced they were stepping down as working members of the Royal Family
He said his wife being an American actress ‘clouded’ his family’s view of her – and they believed it wouldn’t last.
The news comes after sources claimed the couple are in talks to front a new Netflix documentary which will see them meeting communities in South Africa.
The Sunday Mirror reported Prince Harry and Meghan will be shown helping to build houses in the villages they will visit with the series thought to take a ‘humanitarian’ focus as Meghan brings awareness to safe birthing practices.
A source told the newspaper: ‘The cameras will follow [The Sussexes] as they visit compounds and share medical education.’
They added the production will be a combined project from Netflix and the couple’s Archewell Foundation.
The source revealed: ‘Meghan is particularly keen to share information about giving birth safely with the women she meets.’
Harry and Meghan’s reported project in South Africa will be their third in conjunction with Netflix, following their bombshell six-part docuseries in December 2022 and their ‘Live to Lead’ series, which aired on New Year’s Eve in 2022.
It will follow the couple’s ‘return to South Africa’, according to the source, following their royal tour which saw them visit the nation in 2019.
During the tour, the couple met with community members in townships around Cape Town while travelling with Prince Archie, and were pictured smiling and laughing as they danced with locals.
Meanwhile earlier this week, Meghan could be seen cuddling up with her daughter Lilibet as they attended a 4th of July parade in a video shared by a hotel owned by a friend of the Sussexes.
Prince Harry was pictured alongside his two-year-old daughter last week at the event in Montecito.
In a clip shared by local hotel Rosewood Miramar Beach days later promoting their 4th July celebration, Meghan can be seen alongside her husband and daughter as they wave to passersby.
The luxury five-star hotel is owned by businessman Rick Caruso, who previously revealed how he had first met the couple back in May 2020 to discuss ‘charity work’ as well as their future plans.
According to The Times, Meghan and Harry have since dined at the exclusive hotel, while the Duchess’ ex-husband Trevor also tied the knot at the premises.
The clip shared by the hotel, which has 93K followers on Instagram, shows one car in the parade driving along the road, while those inside waved to parade spectators.
After a clip showing Meghan, Harry and Lilibet, the video moved on to showcasing the BBQ on offer at the hotel for the celebration.
Other clips showed the beachfront bar, as well as a huge sign reading USA which was covered in balloons.
The video, which is less than a minute long, was shared alongside the caption: ‘A little Miramar magic for 4th of July!’
Vanity Fair reported back in 2020 that Meghan and Harry had been ‘cosying up’ to the owner of the hotel.
The couple reportedly held a meeting with the businessman, with Caruso telling Vanity Fair: ‘I was just very impressed by both of them. They’re surprisingly down-to-earth. We talked about their charity work and the work that my company does.
‘We just shared a lot of things that we’d like to do to make people’s lives better. We’re very lucky to have them.’
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