After a catastrophic 2023, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken some time to regroup and rethink. Now they have decided to grace us with their decision on to how to re-enter the public sphere in glory once again. Send for Netflix!

Not that they’ve put it quite like that. Instead, Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, has announced that their $100 million (£78 million), five year deal with Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Productions will continue through 2024. Speaking at an industry event in Hollywood, Bajaria commented that the pair ‘have a bunch [of projects] in development’. These are expected to include a mixture of features, potentially including an adaptation of the romance novel Meet Me At The Lake to which the couple bought the rights last year. Most ominously, Bajaria also said the pair had ‘a couple of unscripted things’ in the works. Yes, it’s looking likely that there will be some sort of follow-up to 2022’s interminable series Harry & Meghan. Let joy be unconfined.

Meghan and Harry’s solipsistic and money-grabbing existence is one predicated entirely on former glories

It is surprising that Netflix are still attempting to promote the Montecito dwellers as one of their best assets, given that most other media companies who found themselves sucked into their orbit have long since cut and run. The most high profile instance of this was Spotify, who not only cancelled the much-derided Archetypes podcast series, but decided that ending their overall deal with the Sussexes was the sensible move. They had perhaps been mindful of the comments made by the leading talent agency Nicholas Zimmer that ‘turns out Meghan Markle was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of talent…just because you’re famous doesn’t make you great at something.’

Just as this was true of their spiritual forerunners, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who spent decades travelling the world in first class whinging about their lot in life, so it remains true of these particular disenfranchised former royals.