New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has launched a press release showing to distance herself from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, days earlier than her deliberate look of their subsequent Netflix docuseries.
Netflix yesterday dropped the trailer for Harry and Meghan’s subsequent streaming venture, Live to Lead. Released on December 31, the seven-part Netflix collection will function interviews from distinguished leaders together with Ardern, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, local weather activist Greta Thunberg, lawyer Gloria Steinem and extra.
As some on social media identified, Bader Ginsburg’s involvement suggests the venture has been within the works for some time – she died greater than two years in the past.
And in a brand new assertion launched to media, Ardern’s workplace appeared to distance the NZ PM from the ex-royal couple, declaring that her involvement within the venture got here again in March 2019 – nearly a yr earlier than Harry and Meghan introduced their intention to give up the royal household – and was facilitated by the Nelson Mandela basis.
“In early March 2019 the prime minister was approached by the Mandela Foundation to participate in a project to develop accessible resources on key attributes of leadership targeted at aspiring young leaders around the world, based off a one-hour interview,” the assertion started, saying that they had been “advised the outputs would be printed and digital books, short films and audiobooks.
“In March 2021 the Nelson Mandela Foundation advised the prime minister’s office they had secured an agreement with Netflix to broadcast the series of interviews, including the 2019 interview with the prime minister,” it continued.
“In May this year the prime minister’s office was notified that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would introduce the series; noting this was nearly two and a half years after the interview had been recorded and permission for its use by the Mandela Foundation had already been provided.
“All communication throughout has been with the foundation (there has been no communications with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex regarding the project).”
Ardern’s assertion comes as Harry and Meghan’s six-part Netflix docuseries strains their relations with the royal household even additional. Bombshells within the docuementary collection embrace Harry’s allegation that his brother Prince William had helped orchestrate a harmful leak about Meghan throughout her 2021 courtroom case towards Associated Newspapers.
As the NZ Herald reviews, given she is the serving Prime Minister of a commonwealth nation, Ardern “would have been likely to turn down any involvement in a Meghan and Harry project, so as not to be seen to be taking a side in the increasingly ugly fight between the pair and the royal family.”
