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Spotify Reels From Prince Harry’s Admission Of Hasty Deals

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Spotify executives were left reeling after Prince Harry admitted that he had signed numerous deals in a hurry to make money, as the Sussexes’ podcasting deal comes to an end.

In a conversation with Pals Confidential, Daily Mail’s diary editor Richard Eden recalled Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, where the Duke discussed his financial worries about his family’s security.

In March 2021, Prince Harry revealed that the multi-million pound deals he had signed with streaming giants Spotify and Netflix were never part of the plan and insisted that it was suggested by somebody else when his family cut him off financially.

A week after Spotify announced that it was parting ways with the Sussexes following just one series of Meghan’s podcast series Archetypes, Eden claimed that Harry’s admission left Spotify bosses reeling.

“It takes an awful lot of work to produce a podcast.

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    It’s serious work.

    It’s planning.

    You can’t just turn up and say, oh what shall we do today?

    That’s shown by, you know, I had to listen to these podcasts for the program so frankly, and I’m not surprised it’s coming to an end,” said Eden.

    The Daily Mail’s royal editor Rebecca English agreed with her fellow panelist, saying both Spotify and the Sussexes had put a brave face on the end of the deal, but it was undoubtedly a blow to the couple.

    “What gets to the heart of what it is, is what they can sell.

    I think anybody, even their biggest supporters, will admit people are not given multi-million pound deals with no track record in the industry on the basis that they’re going to produce some incredibly worthy programs over a number of years,” she continued.

    As the Sussexes’ next move appears uncertain, English said that despite rumors Prince Harry’s Netflix project about the Invictus Games had been axed, it’s still slated to go ahead this summer.

    Eden said, “To be fair, that could be really interesting.”

    Elsewhere in the episode, English teased a big launch from William on an initiative about homelessness in the coming weeks.

    Speaking about how the Prince of Wales is stepping up his game on the cause, the pair spoke about how William was introduced to the plight of the homeless from young ages when his late mother, Princess Diana, first took him to visit the passage charity.

    “He started going to homeless shelters like the passage with his late mother when he was kind of 11 years old and it’s something he’s always worked quite passionately on, in front and behind the scenes,” said English.

    However, both English and Eden agreed that a Sunday Times article in which William discussed the issue, which was published last Sunday, was unusual timing given that Trooping the Colour had taken place just one day earlier and risked overshadowing Charles’ first birthday celebration as monarch.

    “It was the King’s first birthday parade.

    It was a big, big occasion for King Charles and Camilla.

    And then what was pushed off the front pages by this interview, which had been given before, and was timed to come out on the Sunday, the day after Trooping the Colour,” explained Richard.

    He found the timing strange, adding it caused a lot of raised eyebrows amongst the King’s supporters.

    Rebecca agreed, adding the story was relevant enough to run on another day.

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