Is Meghan Markle ‘bossing’ Harry around? Report makes explosive claims post Netflix breakup

Meghan Markle would allegedly boss around Prince Harry during Zoom meetings with Netflix, reported Variety, after the streaming platform cut ties with the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle brand, As Ever.

The Variety report, citing sources, said she would “talk over or recast” Prince Harry’s thoughts, and sometimes, when Harry would be mid-sentence, “she’d touch his arm or thigh” during virtual and in-person meetings with Netflix partners.

However, Markle’s lawyer, Michael J Kump, pushed back on the claims, calling it “misogynistic”. He wrote a letter to Variety, accessed by Page Six, saying that the outlet's claims “seem calculated to play into the misogynistic characterisation of her bossing her husband around.”

Harry also told Variety that the allegation is “categorically false.”

The report said that Meghan would allegedly “disappear” during Zoom meetings when she’d get offended.

Netflix teams, like the marketing department, were told that Markle’s long absences from meetings were because she was offended by something that was said, a source told Variety.

“The mood in the building is ‘We’re done,’” the Netflix inside said.

However, Kump contested the claim, saying that Meghan is a work-from-home mom of two young children aged 4 and 6, “and often encounters children who enter the space unexpectedly during a meeting.”

“Independent of being a parent who works from home, Meghan is also conscious of shielding her team from the distraction of children,” Kump said in his letter.

Defending Meghan, Kump said that nearly all professionals need to turn off the audio or camera during a virtual meeting at some point.

Sarandos wouldn’t sit for a call with Meghan unless a lawyer was present on the line, the report claimed. However, a Netflix spokesperson insisted that this was “absolutely inaccurate.”

“This is blatantly false,” Kemp rebutted Variety. “In fact, Meghan texts and speaks with Mr Sarandos regularly, and has been to his home, sans lawyers.”

The report also claimed that Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria has “grown weary” of working with the royal couple. But Bajaria herself told Variety she’s “really enjoyed” collaborating with the Sussexes.

A source told Page Six that Markle and Harry have a great working relationship with Sarandos and Bajaria.

They have since released projects like their hit 2023 tell-all documentary, “Harry & Meghan,” and Meghan's lifestyle series, “With Love, Meghan”, which will not be returning for a third season amid falling ratings.

According to media reports, the couple extended their partnership with Netflix, but for an amount “much” less than the original deal.

The Sussexes had several projects in the works, including adaptations of the books “Meet Me at the Lake” and “The Wedding Date,” before Netflix dumped As Ever.

According to Page Six sources, Netflix’s deal with the Sussexes is in a great place, and they have multiple scripted and unscripted projects that are in development.

As Ever spokesperson also confirmed to Page Six that the company, “grateful for Netflix’s partnership,” “is now ready to stand on its own.”