The Netflix hit’s creator, Peter Morgan, revealed that the Duchess of Sussex will never be featured on the drama, which covers the inner workings and melodrama of the British royal family. “The Meghan and Harry story is nowhere near over yet,” Morgan told Town & Country, “and I’m happy that I’m never going to write it.” Season 5 of The Crown was initially set to be its last, but Morgan eventually expanded to six seasons in order to do justice to the relationships between Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, as well as Prince Charles’ current wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles. The series will cover the administrations of British Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair; Blair’s administration ended in 2007, almost a full decade before Markle transitioned from Suits starlet to Duchess. Morgan previously hinted that Harry and Meghan’s story is simply too fresh to dramatize yet. “I just think you get so much more interesting [with time]. Meghan and Harry are in the middle of their journey, and I don’t know what their journey is or how it will end. One wishes some happiness, but I’m much more comfortable writing about things that happened at least 20 years ago,” Morgan explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “I sort of have in my head a 20-year rule. That is enough time and enough distance to really understand something, to understand its role, to understand its position, to understand its relevance. Often things that appear absolutely wildly important today are instantly forgotten, and other things have a habit of sticking around and proving to be historically very relevant and long-lasting.” Morgan explained that because the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s story is still unfolding, making it into a narrative would prove difficult—and it would also seem almost redundant since the couple are constantly in the press. “To be a dramatist, I think you need perspective and you need to also allow for the opportunity for metaphor. Once something has a metaphorical possibility, it can then become interesting. It’s quite possible, for example, to tell the story of Harry and Meghan through analogy and metaphor, if that’s what you want to do,” he said. “Because there’ve been so many examples in the past, whether it’s Wallis Simpson or Edward VII, or whether it’s Diana and Prince Charles. There have been plenty of opportunities in the past where there have been marital complications. There’ve been wives that have been married into the Royal family that have felt unwelcome and that they don’t fit in. So there are plenty of stories to tell without telling the story of Harry and Meghan.” Next, keep calm and binge on with 16 shows like The Crown.
