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| Written by | Terrence Coli Scarlett Lacey |
| Directed by | Menhaj Huda |
| Starring | Murray Fraser Parisa Fitz-Henley Burgess Abernethy Laura Mitchell Steve Coulter Melanie Nicholls-King Clare Filipow Deborah Ramsay |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Producers | Kyle A. Clark Jamie Goehring Lina Wong |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Production companies | Crown Productions Cue the Dog Productions Silver Screen Pictures |
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| Release | May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13) |
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]
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]
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]
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