Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Announce 2 New Netflix Series — Including a Cooking Show with the Duchess!

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions has new nonfiction series in production about subjects close to their hearts

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attend the Wheelchair Basketball preliminary match between Ukraine and Australia during day four of the Invictus Games

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the Invictus Games on Sept. 13, 2023. Photo:
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s latest Netflix projects are in the works.

On April 11, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions revealed two new nonfiction series are in the “early stages” of production at Netflix. Deadline was first to report the news.

A series curated by Meghan, who is also serving as an executive producer, will “celebrate the joys of cooking and gardening, entertaining and friendship.” The series will be directed by Michael Steed, who worked on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, while the showrunner is Leah Hariton, who was a producer on Selena Gomez’s Selena + Chef cooking show on HBO.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, has a well-documented love of cooking, from brining turkey for Thanksgiving on her now-defunct Instagram to collaborating with the Hubb Community Kitchen on a fundraising cookbook as one of her first projects as a member of the royal family.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visits the Hubb Community Kitchen in London on November 21, 2018 to celebrate the success of their cookbook. – The kitchen was set up by women affected by the Grenfell tower fire and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex wrote a foreword to the cookbook to help raise funds for the victims.
Meghan Markle visits the Hubb Community Kitchen in London on November 21, 2018. CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty
The other series will “provide viewers unprecedented access to the world of professional polo,” a sport that Prince Harry, 39, has played for decades. He often plays in charity matches, including a flagship fundraiser for Sentebale, the charity Harry co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 to help children and young people affected by poverty, inequality and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa.

“Known primarily for its aesthetic and social scene, the series will pull the curtain back on the grit and passion of the sport, capturing players and all it takes to compete at the highest level,” according to a statement.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are both serving as executive producers on the project, primarily at the US Open Polo Championship in Florida, while Miloš Balać (Welcome to Wrexham) is the showrunner.

Titles and release dates for the two shows are expected to be announced in the coming months.

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Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said at the Next on Netflix event in February that Meghan and Prince Harry had several projects in development.

“They have a couple of unscripted things they’re working on with Brandon [Reigg],” Bajaria said, according to Hello! magazine. “And they actually have like a bunch of development. They have a movie in development, a [scripted] series that they’re working on. So all very early development, with a movie, a TV show and a couple of unscripted shows. But yeah, the movie’s great.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a multiyear deal with Netflix (where Suits, which Meghan acted in for years before marrying Harry, surged over the summer) after stepping back from their royal roles and relocating to her home state of California in 2020. The New York Times reported that the couple’s production hub, later named Archewell Productions, would exclusively create documentaries, docuseries, feature films, scripted shows and children’s programming for the platform.

The couple’s projects for the streamer so far have included the intimate docuseries Harry & Meghan in December 2022, which made a splash as Netflix’s biggest documentary debut ever, the series Live to Lead about changemakers including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem, which also debuted in December 2022, and the docuseries Heart of Invictus about athletes preparing for Prince Harry’s Invictus Games at The Hague, released in August 2023.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend Invictus Games Vancouver Whistlers 2025’s One Year To Go Winter Training Camp on February 14, 2024 in Whistler, British Columbia.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend Invictus Games countdown event on Feb. 14, 2024.
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In August, author Carley Fortune also confirmed to The Independent that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Productions hub would be adapting her romance novel Meet Me at the Lake for Netflix.

“I’m so thrilled about working with Netflix and Archewell to bring Meet Me at the Lake to the screen,” she said in a statement. “Will and Fern’s love story is dear to my heart, and I can’t imagine a more perfect partnership.”

The latest update comes after Meghan shouted out Bajaria at the SXSW Conference in Austin on March 8. During the keynote panel “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen,” the Duchess of Sussex praised Bajaria as a woman working to improve diversity and representation in the entertainment space “so we can all feel more seen.”

Their Netflix news also comes after Meghan introduced her new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard. On March 14, an Instagram account and website went live for the venture, which marked the Duchess of Sussex’s return to social media after she and Prince Harry stopped using their @SussexRoyal Instagram page in 2020. The website’s landing page read “American Riviera Orchard Montecito” in gold script below a matching monogram, and the Instagram grid mirrored the same logo. The lifestyle brand will officially launch later this spring, PEOPLE understands.

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Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard logo, revealed on March 14, 2024.
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The brand name was seemingly inspired by the California coast that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex call home with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. According to Travel & Leisure, Santa Barbara has been nicknamed the “American Riviera” for over a century “because of its temperate climate and lush landscapes, as well as its robust food and wine culture.”

The Duchess of Sussex appeared in the social account’s first Instagram Stories on launch day, where she arranged flowers, mixed in a kitchen and wore a billowing black gown to the tune of “I Wish You Love” by Nancy Wilson. The montage was reminiscent of her lifestyle blog The Tig, which she shuttered in 2017 during her courtship with Prince Harry.

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Meghan Markle appears in a video for American Riviera Orchard on Instagram posted on March 14, 2024.
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In a hint of what might come, a trademark application revealed that American Riviera Orchard sought to sell tableware, cookbooks and edible spreads like jellies, jams and nut butters, with approval for retail store services.

Before she met and married Prince Harry, Meghan embraced her passion for taste making on her now-defunct blog The Tig. The site was named after her favorite wine, Tiganello, and dedicated to food, travel, style and adventures she found inspiring, plus personal reflections.

“What began as a passion project (my little engine that could) evolved into an amazing community of inspiration, support, fun and frivolity. You’ve made my days brighter and filled this experience with so much joy. Keep finding those Tig moments of discovery, keep laughing and taking risks, and keep being ‘the change you wish to see in the world,’ ” Meghan wrote in a farewell post when she shuttered the site in 2017.