When your brand is built on bashing one thing, let’s just say quitting it and still being successful is not a given. Since Prince Harry and Meghan exited the Royal Family, they’ve seen financial and commercial gain just by reporting on the different ways the Royal Family treated them ill.
When Harry released his memoir “Spare,” filled with incendiary attacks on the Royal Family, of course it was successful and became a bestseller in the UK in 2023.
But this path they’ve chosen to walk on can only lead them so far, and now, even amid the rebrand, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are deeply faltering.
How Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Traded Longevity For Instant Success
As of right now, the Sussexes’ brand is aligned with royal bashing, and their fans feed off their victimhood. When that slips – for example, Invictus Games docuseries – not many of this fandom will be willing to consume it.
Mind you, the Netflix documentary was not entirely devoid of some form of royal attack, with Harry insisting that his family was no help at his most trying times.
Then comes the funny part. When Harry dropped “Spare” and did his round of interviews to promote the book, he harped on one thing: reconciliation with his family.
However, he quickly found it won’t come as easy as he hoped, with his father King Charles evicting him from Frogmore Cottage just days after the publication of his memoir.
His request to stay at Windsor Castle when he returned in September 2023 was also denied, leading to more sting to his ego. But apart from building a wall between him and his family, his repeated attacks on the Royals morphed his brand into a shallow one.
This, of course, is not only holding Harry back, but Meghan Markle as well, especially with the loss of her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” and the fact that she hasn’t landed a major brand deal despite her signing with top Hollywood agency WME.
To add to this, her Netflix animated series “Pearl” was axed before it could even enter production and so far, no other project of hers has been picked up by the streaming giant.
Perhaps Harry and Meghan will stick to their plan to rebrand no matter how hard it may prove, or simply go back to what they do best; royal bashing.
