Harry’s new Netflix series is ‘last-ditch chance to remake image’, says critic

Posted on : August 17, 2023
Harry’s new Netflix series is ‘last-ditch chance to remake image’, says critic
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    Prince Harry's new Netflix series is a "last-ditch opportunity to firmly remake his image", according to a royal expert.

    Harry and wife Meghan Markle released a six-part docuseries titled Harry & Meghan on the streaming platform last year. In it they detailed how they met, their whirlwind romance, their struggles with the Royal Family and their exit from the firm in 2020.

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex look set to work with Netflix again as they adapt Carley Fortune's novel Meet Me at the Lake for the screen.

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    But another project is coming before that – Harry's limited series Heart of Invictus (which will become available to watch on Netflix from August 30).

    It will document the journeys of veterans from around the world competing in Harry's Invictus Games. The first trailer for the series dropped on Wednesday (August 16).

    According to royal expert Daniela Elser, writing for news.com.au, Heart of Invictus could be Harry's last chance to overcome his and Meghan's "deeply charged, complicated positions in the US public landscape".

    She said the series could remind the world "he had actually achieved something unimpeachably great" with the Invictus Games, prior to the controversies that have surrounded him in recent years.

    Elser wrote: "[Heart of Invictus] constitutes is the 38-year-old’s last-ditch opportunity to firmly remake his image into one of a diehard, dedicated humanitarian and not the view of him as a whiny, over-privileged boy who spent the final years of his grandmother’s life laying into his family."

    She went on to say there could be a "shiny gold award" awaiting Harry after its release, but warned it could be "another instance of a one-off successful outing" for him "like Spare or Harry & Meghan".

    "He never had to go out and find an actual idea or come up with some fresh subject matter himself," Elser said.

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    • Meghan Markle
    • Prince Harry
    • Netflix
    • Royal Family

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