Harry and Meghan escape the palace once again... in a drama on Amazon Prime

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's flight from the British royal family to North America has been made into a TV movie. 'Escaping the Palace' first appeared on Lifetime channel Canada and is now available on Amazon Prime.

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With 'Escaping the Palace,' Lifetime reproduces and dramatizes recent royal history. As often happens with Lifetime TV movies, the main characters are played by two relatively unfamiliar faces.

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Jordan Dean is a Broadway star and composer. He was in the original cast of 'American Psycho' as Luis Carruthers in 2016 and played a number of roles on the stage. In TV, he has made some appearances in 'Law and Order', 'Z: The Beginning of Everything', and 'High Maintenance'. This controversial movie will certainly push him into the spotlight.

Dressed as Harry, Duke of Sussex, Jordan Dean looks a replica of the Prince. With a perfect hairstyle recreation and a suit that many have seen Harry wearing in public, he is the Queen's grandson's doppelgänger.

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Sydney Morton is also from the Broadway stage. Having been part of the original Broadway cast for many musicals, she travelled on national tours and also made her mark on the TV screen. Morton appeared in series for Netflix, Syfy ad NBC.

In the Lifetime movie, actress Sydney Morton looks exactly like Meghan Markle.

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She can be heard saying the words that she had previously said to Oprah in the interview, talking about when she attended the Royal Albert Hall on duties: "If I'm left alone, I don't know what I might do."

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"Not all fairy tales have the perfect ending," is the tagline for the movie. It deals with one of the most controversial events in the lives of the British royals.

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The film catches up with the couple after the birth of their son Archie (in May 2019) and recounts the events that lead to the pair's decision of leaving the royal family.

The infamous Oprah interview, which rocked the royal family, is featured in the movie. One of the most famous TV programmes of the past years, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, is central to the Lifetime movie and has been reconstructed to the smallest detail.

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Meghan said in the Oprah interview that "in the months when I was pregnant… [there were] concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born." The couple never disclosed who made these remarks about Archie's skin colour.

Although the couple never mentioned any names in the Oprah interview, it was clear that the people particularly under fire were Harry's brother, William; sister-in law, Kate; and his father, Charles. Harry disclosed that there was such a deep rift between him and Charles, that he said his father at one point "stopped taking my calls."

Harry has previously said how he doesn't want the same thing to happen to them as what happened to their mother. Showing flashbacks of Princess Diana's car accident, the film takes a look at that fateful event which changed Harry forever.

According to The Sun, the movie emphasizes "Meghan’s growing isolation and sadness, their disappointment that 'The Firm' was not defending them against the press's attacks."

The movie also features other royals, as it examines "the dynamics between Will and Harry, Kate and Meghan, and Harry with Will and Charles, that lead to the ultimate break from the royal ties."

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And then there's the backstory between the two Duchesses - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge. Meghan put Kate in the firing line in the interview when she disclosed that her sister-in-law 'made her cry' - which was stark contrast to the news at the time of the incident, which reported it was, in fact, the other way around.

Jordan Whalen has returned as Prince William, Laura Mitchell as Kate Middleton, Steve Coulter as Prince Charles and Maggie Sullivan as Queen Elizabeth II.

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It is the third Harry and Meghan film that Lifetime has produced. The first movie was called 'Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance', and then came: 'Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal.'

The movie premiered on Lifetime Canada in September and is now available on Amazon Prime for streaming. It hasn't had the best reviews, receiving a poor 2.5/10 on IMDB, but for royalty lovers it is still a must-watch!

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