Netflix for royal watchers: introducing True Royalty TV
After the royal wedding pulled in nearly 2 billion viewers across the globe, it's no surprise that companies are keen to find ways to cash in on our taste for royal-watching. The Harry and Meghan Lifetime movie was only the first step: now those truly voracious for more regal televisual offerings have their own version of Netflix to sate their appetites.
True Royalty TV bills itself as "the world's first and only on-demand TV service devoted to the best in Royal documentary and drama".
It was founded by Nick Bullen, the former editor of This Morning who had the idea for Ant and Dec to host a documentary with Prince Charles in 2015.
"We have a team of curators who source our content and they have unearthed some fascinating material,” Bullen told Vanity Fair. “One of the documentaries they found is called The Duke and Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Photos of Their Love Story about Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and contains some very rare photographs of Wallis which show her in a much softer light.
"You get to see the romance of a couple in love rather than the stern face of a woman who was blamed for the abdication. There are pictures of Wallis in her bathing suit and having a nap on the beach which make her somehow more human and less the ball-breaking woman who stole the crown.”
This programme, and When Ant and Dec Met the Prince, will be available on the channel, alongside other offerings from Bullen's Spun Gold production company such as Prince William’s Passion (conservation in Africa), The Last Party at the Palace (about the debutante system) and the Bafta-award-winning The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration.
It's available across the Anglosphere in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and costs £4.99 a month or £49.99 for a yearly subscription.
