{"id":1460231,"date":"2022-05-02T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460231"},"modified":"2022-05-02T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:44:47","slug":"pretending-to-be-a-duchess-wont-buy-her-any-favors-netflix-cancels-meghan-markle-series-purportedly-based-on-her-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pretending-to-be-a-duchess-wont-buy-her-any-favors-netflix-cancels-meghan-markle-series-purportedly-based-on-her-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pretending To Be A Duchess Won\u2019t Buy Her Any Favors\u2019: Netflix Cancels Meghan Markle Series Purportedly Based On Her Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpretending-to-be-a-duchess-wont-buy-her-any-favors-netflix-cancels-meghan-markle-series-purportedly-based-on-her-own-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1211452971-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Netflix, which reported last week it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/19\/media\/netflix-earnings\/index.html\">lost<\/a>\u00a0200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, announced over the weekend that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10772951\/Meghan-Markles-animated-Netflix-series-gets-dumped-cutbacks.html\">canceling development<\/a> of a series created by British duchess Meghan Markle \u2014 \u00a0and some reports said the show would have been based on her own life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPearl,\u201d the animated series created by Markle, revolved around a 12-year-old girl inspired by various historical women. \u201cThe name Meghan originated in Wales, where it is traditionally spelled Megan, however it originally came from the Greek name Margaret, derived from the word margarit\u0113s, which translates to \u2018pearl\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-9791469\/Meghan-Markle-named-new-Netflix-herself.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted last year.<\/p>\n<p>Archewell Productions, Markle and Prince Harry\u2019s media company, first announced\u00a0<em>\u201c<\/em>Pearl\u201d in August 2021. Markle stated in a press release, \u201cLike many girls her age, our heroine Pearl is on a journey of self-discovery as she tries to overcome life\u2019s daily challenges. I\u2019m thrilled that Archewell Productions, partnered with the powerhouse platform of Netflix and these incredible producers, will together bring you this new animated series, which celebrates extraordinary women throughout history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British journalist Dan Wootton commented, \u201cMeghan is realising that pretending to be a \u201cDuchess\u201d won\u2019t buy her any favours in the cutthroat world of telly.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meghan is realising that pretending to be a \u201cDuchess\u201d won\u2019t buy her any favours in the cutthroat world of telly.<br \/>Netflix has axed her first series Pearl \u2013 based on her own life \u2013 before it ever aired.<br \/>Most likely because it was going to be worthy tosh.<br \/>Back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Wootton (@danwootton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danwootton\/status\/1520891315545907200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Archewell Productions signed a multi-year deal with Netflix in 2020. Soon after that, the royal couple signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/meghan-markle-spotify-launch-archetypes-podcast-what-to-know\/\">$20 million deal<\/a> with Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, Harry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/03\/meghan-markle-oprah-interview\">told<\/a> Oprah Winfrey in their interview on CBS, \u201cMy family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us. I was cut off in the first quarter of 2020. But I\u2019ve got what my mom left me and without that, we would not have been able to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At roughly the same time Netflix was canceling the Markle series, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/my-heart-is-broken-employees-at-prince-harry-run-startup-promoting-mental-fitness-furious-about-pay-cuts-report\/\">report<\/a> claimed employees at the startup promoting \u201cmental fitness\u201d which boasts Great Britain\u2019s woke Prince Harry as its chief impact officer were disgruntled about proposed modification of their contracts, even claiming that their \u201cheart is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BetterUp, a company valued at roughly $5 billion which hired Prince Harry last spring, enthusing they were \u201cenergized by his model of inspiration and impact through action\u201d as a \u201ctrue citizen of the world,\u201d employs over 2,000 professional coaches. The startup recently announced a modification of their contracts, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/a-revolt-is-brewing-at-prince-harrys-silicon-valley-gig-betterup\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, which prompted some employees to express their bitterness to the media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many of us now who are upset,\u201d one coach lamented, adding, \u201cI would say my heart is broken. And I think there\u2019s really questionable ethics going on.\u201d Another coach echoed, \u201cThey\u2019ve turned us into a commodity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, which reported last week it had lost\u00a0200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022, announced over the weekend that it was canceling development of a series created by British<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1481218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}