The pair, who stepped back from royal duty last year, are setting up a complex network of companies all based in the opaque tax haven state.

The latest move follows Harry and Meghan adding two more ‘entertainment’ companies to their growing business empire in Delaware. But aside from a 33-minute ‘holiday special’ that month featuring friends such as Sir Elton John and James Corden – and the intensely private couple’s son, Archie, speaking his first public words – there has been a deafening silence. Spotify announced the partnership with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Audio in December 2020 as they were ‘citizens of the world’ who wanted to ‘elevate underrepresented voices’. After the deal resulted in only one show being streamed, it is advertising for in-house staff to cover ‘every step’ of the process. But Harry and Meghan’s pet project appears to have suffered a blow, with audio giant Spotify reportedly taking production into its own hands. They launched their £18million podcast deal a year ago with a pledge to promote ‘shared values’.

Now the Daily Mail claims that Spotify is appointing their own people to oversee production of the Sussexes’ podcasts. The only story I’ve believed in recent months is that Spotify gave Harry and Meghan a “gentle nudge” to get on track to produce some podcasts. British “sources” keep insisting – in very tortured ways – that Spotify is furious with Harry and Meghan, that Spotify will withhold payment, that Spotify is having second thoughts about the Sussexes’ contract because (get this) Harry and Meghan are so unpopular. The British media thinks they have some kind of opening to nitpick the Duke and Duchess of Sussex: Harry and Meghan have not produced any podcasts in more than a year, and they’ve only produced one podcast thus far.

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