Netflix will reportedly continue to release Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's highly anticipated docuseries later this year amid the delay reports due to the controversy "The Crown" Season 5 is facing. Multiple sources even confirm the show will drop in December.
U.K. Prime Minister John Major can't help but react to "The Crown" Season 5 premiere episode, featuring him and King Charles III's alleged meeting back in 1991 about taking over the throne. As the show gets heavily scrutinized, this allegedly alerts Netflix, deciding not to release Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's docuseries yet.
"The Crown" is now facing backlash, pushing back the Sussexes' upcoming project until 2023 due to the fears that it may also affect the show. However, despite these claims, insiders told Page Six that it would go on to its original December release date, confident that the issues surrounding the TV series had nothing to do with the docuseries.
It was previously revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to delete their negative comments about King Charles, Camilla, Queen Consort, Prince William, and Kate Middleton in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II's demise in September.
The couple allegedly wanted to delay the show's release until next year, not Netflix. Thus, an industry tipster claimed that the docuseries was still going ahead of its set release in December as "far as they were aware."
Anyhow, the streaming giant is yet to announce the project's release date officially, and rumors have it that the docs still have some issues, like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's comments that contradict what the former wrote in his much-awaited memoir.
Neither Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, nor Netflix is yet to comment on the issue.
Meanwhile, the "The Crown" Season 5 episode in question was the premiere episode where the then-Prince Charles allegedly summoned Major to complain about waiting for his reign as the king.
Titled "Queen Victoria Syndrome," it was reportedly based on the actual poll that the U.K. Sunday Times made, suggesting the monarchy was "dated" and Queen Elizabeth should abdicate so that Charles could take the throne.
It showed Charles (Dominic West) agreeing with the publication's report, saying an aging monarch could make people grow tired of her and the monarchy for reigning too long and being remote from the modern world.
He then held a secret meeting with Major, discussing how Edward VII "waited in the wings" for decades due to Queen Victoria's long reign. The premier insisted that no such thing happened, describing the episode as "malicious nonsense."
As this issue took the front-page stories, Netflix executives allegedly felt the need to move the release of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's docuseries.
