Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance

Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance is a 2018 historical fiction television film about the meeting and courtship of Harry and Meghan Markle. The movie originally aired on the Lifetime Network on May 13, 2018, as a lead up to the royal wedding. The movie stars Murray Fraser and Parisa Fitz-Henley as the titular Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Burgess Abernethy and Laura Mitchell co-starring as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.[1]

Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance
Poster
Directed byMenhaj Huda
Written byTerrence Coli
Scarlett Lacey
Produced byKyle A. Clark
Jamie Goehring
Lina Wong
StarringMurray Fraser
Parisa Fitz-Henley
Burgess Abernethy
Laura Mitchell
Steve Coulter
Melanie Nicholls-King
Clare Filipow
Deborah Ramsay
Production
companies
Crown Productions
Cue the Dog Productions
Silver Screen Pictures
Distributed byA&E Networks
Release date
  • May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

The film opens with Harry as a young boy on an excursion in Africa with his family after his mother's funeral, where he has a dramatic encounter with a lion. The movie then cuts to Meghan as a young girl, grappling with issues of her biracial heritage and the media's depiction of gender roles. The movie jumps to the present where the couple are set up on a blind date and quickly fall in love. The movie follows their courtship and the intense global media attention surrounding them, as well as the reactions of family and friends to their romancing.[2][3]

Cast

Sequels

The sequel, Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal was broadcast by Lifetime on May 27, 2019, starring Charles Shaughnessy as Prince Charles; Charlie Field and Tiffany Smith in the title roles and covering their wedding and first year of marriage.[4]

A second Lifetime sequel, title Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace starring Sydney Morton and covering their withdrawal from the royal family and the birth of their son Archie, premiered on September 6, 2021.[5][6]

References
  1. Lowry, Brian (May 14, 2018). "'Harry & Meghan' gives 'A Royal Romance' requisite Lifetime movie". CNN. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  2. "Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance Archives". Channel 5.
  3. "Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance review – a brain-numbing charmer from Lifetime". The Guardian. 14 May 2018.
  4. "How Becoming Royal Tackles 10 Meghan Markle Mysteries". Vanity Fair. 28 May 2019.
  5. "Trailer drops for movie about Harry and Meghan – and viewers are utterly baffled". The Independent. 15 July 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09.
  6. "How 'Escaping the Palace' Handles Harry and Meghan's Royal Exit". Vanity Fair. 7 September 2021.
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