Commentator Says Meghan Markle Has ‘Exhausted the Team’ Working on Her Netflix Lifestyle Show
The reviews for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s new production for Netflix about the sport of polo are in, and they’re not good. Not only have critics panned the documentary, but it’s not a hit with fans and hasn’t been near the streaming platform’s Top 10 since it was released on Dec. 10.
Of course, this now puts enormous pressure on Meghan’s new cooking and gardening show, which has mysteriously been pushed back to 2025. Netflix has billed the show as a program that “celebrates the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship.” The series is directed by Michael Steed with Meghan and Chanel Pysnik serving as executive producers alongside showrunner Leah Hariton.
Now, there are rumblings that the former Suits star completely “exhausted the team” hired to work on the lifestyle show with her. Here’s more on that and the other claims Meghan has faced from numerous employees who worked for her.
Commentator claims Meghan has ‘exhausted’ entire team hired to help with Netflix show
Royal reporter and To Di for Daily podcast host Kinsey Schofield spoke about the Sussexes’ contract with Netflix following the duke and duchess’s latest flop and what she’s hearing about Meghan’s team on her lifestyle show.
During an appearance on Sky News Australia, Schofield said: “I am told Meghan has exhausted the team working on her lifestyle show and the delay in content is because nothing is ever good enough for her. Despite multiple professional failures, she continues to have incredibly unrealistic expectations of the people working around her.
Schofield continued: “[For Netflix] the return on investment isn’t there and Harry and Meghan’s professional reputations have suffered significantly over the last few years. I think Netflix is sitting back realizing that they made a mistake and there’s really no value in pursuing a relationship with the Sussexes going forward.”
The duchess has been labeled as extremely hard to work for in the past
This isn’t the first time it’s been reported that Meghan is not easy to work with.
When she was still a working royal, staffers reportedly referred to her as “Duchess Difficult.” And in September 2024, The Hollywood Reporter published a blistering account from several former Sussex employees who described how bad it was working for Meghan. Around a dozen former employees, who call themselves the Sussex Survivors Squad,” said Harry’s wife barked out orders like a “dictator in high heels” and was a “demon boss.”
One former employee, who was on Meghan’s staff in the run-up to her royal wedding, spoke to The Daily Beast and said: “I always thought she was a classic narcissist, and getting her staff to tell a magazine how amazing she is only confirms that in my mind. She is lovely when it is all going her way but a demon when the worm turns.”
And another former aide summed things up by explaining: “There have been plenty of difficult royals over the years, and I do think that after the ill feeling of Megxit, Meghan’s bad moments were amplified and distorted and blown out of proportion. Princess Margaret regularly got people to hold out their hands to use as ashtrays, for example, and that’s just laughed off as hilarious eccentricity. Look at Prince Andrew, he was unbelievable to the staff. That said, there definitely were bad, very bad, even psycho moments [with Meghan]. I witnessed people being chewed up in person and over the phone and made to feel like s***.”
