Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace | |
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Written by | Scarlett Lacey |
Directed by | Menhaj Huda |
Starring | Jordan Dean Sydney Morton Jordan Whalen Laura Mitchell Steve Coulter Deborah Ramsay Bonnie Soper Keegan Connor Tracy Maggie Sullivan |
Music by | Mario Grigorov |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Merideth Finn Michele Weiss |
Running time | 87 minutes |
Production companies | Crown Productions Cue the Dog Productions Silver Screen Pictures |
Original release | |
Release | September 6, 2021 |
Harry & Meghan: Escaping the Palace is a 2021 historical fiction television film. Set three years after the royal wedding of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, it covers their withdrawal from the royal family and the birth of their son Archie. The movie originally aired on the Lifetime Network on September 6, 2021, [1] [2] and it constitutes a second sequel to Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance from 2017 and Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal from 2019.
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