The Crown won't yet tackle Prince Harry and Meghan Markle because their drama is ongoing and not yet history

Entertainment Weekly

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey got The Crown trending as Twitter users wonder how all this drama would be covered on a future season of the Netflix series. But as creator Peter Morgan has repeatedly said, he can't write a story based on something that's still ongoing. “I know how my show is going to end — but that’s long before where we are now,” Morgan told EW in 2018, when Harry and Meghan were part of the Royal family. “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.”