Ditched by Spotify and dubbed ‘grifters’ what next for Harry and Meghan?

It has been a fortnight to forget for the Sussexes. Not only did they lose their huge Spotify contract, but found themselves scorned by a company executive who called them ‘f****** grifters’. 

The Daily Mail’s Royal Editor believes that the couple are having to come to terms with the fact that for big media companies, their royal attachment is their appeal.‘I think anybody, even their biggest supporters, would admit that people are not given multimillion pound deals, with no track record in the industry on the basis that they are going to produce incredibly worthy programmes over a number of years,’ she tells our royal talk show Palace Confidential.

For the paper’s Diary Editor Richard Eden, the fallout shows that the Sussexes weren’t sufficiently serious about the job in hand. ‘In the Oprah Winfrey interview, Prince Harry [said] the only reason he’d signed deals with Spotify and Netflix was because he was in a hurry to make money after his father had withdrawn their multimillion pound security. He thought “how can I make a quick buck?”’ he tells the programme. ‘This has horrified Spotify and executives like Bill Simmons because it takes an awful lot of work. Frankly I’m not surprised it’s coming to an end.’ 

Our panel also discuss the coverage clash: when Prince William’s big interview took his father off the front pages. 

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