Why 'The Crown' won't cover Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's latest developments
When Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex announced via their Instagram @sussexroyal that the pair would "step back as 'senior' members of the royal family," everybody had the same thought: this is going to be a dope episode of The Crown one day.
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Unfortunately for fans of The Crown (and drama in general), the Netflix show's creator already nixed the idea of having any plotline involving Meghan and Harry on the show.
In a December 2018 interview with Entertainment Weekly, creator Peter Morgan said he intends to end his dramatized depiction of the royal family "long before where we are now" to avoid the story getting "too close to the [current] moment."
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Morgan didn't say at which point in recent royal history he would end the series, but indicated that he knows exactly when the cutoff is.
He also stressed that the reason The Crown is interesting is because there's been enough time since the events depicted in the show for the audience to develop a sense of distance and hindsight; something we don't have regarding Meghan and Harry quite yet:
"I don’t know what there is to say about Meghan Markle at the moment. I wouldn’t know and I wouldn’t presume. She’ll only become interesting once we’ve had twenty years to digest who she is and what her impact has been. If I were to write about Meghan Markle I would automatically be writing journalistically. I’ve got nothing to say about Meghan Markle."
It's a huge bummer for those who wanted to see who would play Meghan and Harry, or the reaction of The Crown's versions of the royal family react in real time to the bombshell that one of their own would — gasp — move to Canada, but from a historical standpoint Morgan's logic makes sense.
We'll leave the dramatization of #Megxit to an inevitable Lifetime movie, or thinly veiled subplot in A Christmas Prince 4: Escape From Aldovia.
Alexis Nedd is a senior entertainment reporter at Mashable. A self-named "fanthropologist," she's a fantasy, sci-fi, and superhero nerd with a penchant for pop cultural analysis. Her work has previously appeared in BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and Esquire.
