Don't expect to see Meghan Markle and Prince Harry quitting the royal family depicted on The Crown

Entertainment Weekly

Some fans of The Crown were anxious to see how the Netflix series would depict the royal couple's announcement Wednesday that they were stepping away from their royal duties. But The Crown creator Peter Morgan has long said he doesn't plan to write about the recent era of the Royals, including the ascendance of Meghan Markle. “I know how my show is going to end — but that’s long before where we are now,” Morgan told EW in December 2018 while filming Season 3. “I feel uncomfortable writing about events within a certain time period. I think there’s a certain amount of time within which, if you write about it, what you do instantly becomes journalistic. Because it’s too close to the moment. If you wait a certain amount of time, if you allow fifteen or twenty years, basically a generation, between you and [the events] then you can write about it somewhat freely as drama. Let’s wait twenty years and see what there is to say about Meghan Markle. I don’t know what there is to say about Meghan Markle at the moment. I wouldn’t know and I wouldn’t presume. She’ll only become interesting once we’ve had twenty years to digest who she is and what her impact has been. If I were to write about Meghan Markle I would automatically be writing journalistically. I’ve got nothing to say about Meghan Markle.”

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