The curse of the Harry and Meghan media empire: so much content, but we only care about the Windsors | Marina Hyde

Archetypes, synergies, books about benches - try as they might to move on, the eyeballs come only when they mine their royal pasts

If you enjoy podcasts in the victimless-crime genre, do take a few minutes to catch Spotify's head of podcast innovation and monetisation calling Prince Harry and his wife Meghan fucking grifters" . This chap Bill Simmons was speaking out shortly after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex parted ways" with Spotify, having made a single series as the result of a supposedly multi-year deal signed back in 2020, which was at the time valued at around $20m.

For whatever reason, Spotify and the Sussexes seem to have decided they simply couldn't face another backbreaking day down the content mine together, which means we are left solely with Archetypes. Should you have yet to download it, this is a 12-parter - though feels longer - presented by Meghan, and centred on a series of stereotypical labels that are attached to women to hold them back. Diva", singleton", ambitious" ... that sort of thing. Incredible to break things off here, just when the perfect season two opener presents itself in the form of the label fucking grifter".

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