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Lifetime movies casts Escaping the Palace

Latest bio telemovie dramatises what really happened inside the palace that drove Harry & Meghan to leave everything behind.

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Lifetime has cast its US telemovie Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace with Jordan Dean (The Punisher) as Prince Harry and Sydney Morton (She’s Gotta Have It) as Meghan.

The film marks the third Lifetime film chronicling the couple, following 2018’s Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance and 2019’s Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal.

The film “explores what really happened inside the palace that drove Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to leave everything behind in order to make a future for themselves and their son Archie. The movie will detail Meghan’s growing isolation and sadness, their disappointment that ‘The Firm’ was not defending them against the press’s attacks and Harry’s fear that history would repeat itself and he would not be able to protect his wife and son from the same forces that may have contributed to his mother’s untimely death.”

Also cast are Jordan Whalen as Prince William, Laura Mitchell as Kate Middleton, Steve Coulter as Prince Charles, Maggie Sullivun as Queen Elizabeth II, Melanie Nicholls-King as Doria Ragland, Bonnie Soper as Princess Diana, Deborah Ramsay as Camilla and James Dreyfus as palace insider Leonard. No word on Oprah, I guess…

Tanya Lopez, Executive Vice President of Lifetime Movie Network, previously told TV Tonight biography movies work best with lookalikes.

“If it’s a Whitney Houston (bio), then we like to find an actress who most emulates the real Whitney. If we’re telling a true crime story, our audience will often be more entertained by casting that looks like the real people.

“In fact, they’ll go online and compare them.

“When we did Harry and Megan: A Royal Romance (pictured below), people went online to see how much they looked like them. ”

Filming began this week in Vancouver.

Lifetime Movies screen in Australia through Foxtel’s Lifetime Movie Network.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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  3. “What really happened…” Haha, sure.

    They might as well have a camera crew documenting (and embellishing) their every move at this point, as the so-called privacy loving Prince of Wails and Moaning Markle seem to want every item of their dirty laundry hanging for the public to see.

    Colour me cynical, but I find it very hard to believe that these sorts of mocu-dramas are being produced without their express and emphatic blessing.

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