Where do Meghan and Harry go after being No. 383?

Netflix ratings confirm that 'With Love, Meghan' is not the hit that the Sussexes hoped for

The Netflix ‘Most Watched’ list for the first half of 2025 with ‘With Love, Meghan’ at No. 383

After Netflix premiered With Love, Meghan on March 4, 2025, it boasted that the lifestyle series from the Duchess of Sussex was No. 10 on its Global Top 10 Shows list, with 2.6 million views and 12.6 million hours viewed for the debut week of March 3-9.

With Love, Meghan would never again appear on the Global Top 10 list. It was a show that made a small splash then quickly vanished.

Now, newly released Netflix viewership data for the first half of 2025 confirms the impression of a show that garnered attention because its creator rather than its content. With Love, Meghan clocked up 5.3 million views¹ and 25.5 million hours viewed, placing it in the No. 383 slot for series (there’s a separate list for movies).

Those two sets of data mean that in the roughly four months since the show’s first week, it only added another 2.7 million views and another 12.9 million hours viewed to its tally.

The lack of viewers interested in watching Meghan banter with her friends while she cooks is notable, especially when compared to two other series on the list:

• At No. 1 is Adolescence, the British crime drama that debuted a week after With Love, Meghan, and garnered 555 million hours viewed and 114.8 million views.

• At No. 371 is The Queen’s Gambit, which got 41 percent more hours viewed than Meghan’s show even though the chess series has been around since 2020.

Sure, Meghan’s series is a lifestyle show rather than a drama but her low ratings highlight the main problem for the royal creative duo — people aren’t watching what the Sussexes are creating. And it isn’t just her series With Love, Meghan.

Harry’s series Polo was so bad that not even a royal pedigree could help its ratings after its release in mid-December 2024. For the first few weeks from then until the end of the year, when attention should be at its height, Polo attracted a paltry 2.4 million hours viewed and 600,000 views, leaving it in the No. 2,946 position for the second half of 2024. In contrast, the Harry & Meghan series that debuted two years earlier in December 2022 landed in the No. 2,228 slot for that same six-month period, with 5.4 million hours viewed and 900,000 views.

The next six months were even worse for Polo. By the end of June 2025, Polo had fallen to No. 3,436, with only 2.1 million hours viewed and 500,000 views while Harry & Meghan increased its viewership to hit the No. 1,764 slot with 7.3 million hours viewed and 1.3 million views.

Indeed, that series about the royal couple’s journey from falling in love to leaving royal duty for a life in California continues stand apart in terms of ratings and reviews. Released in December 2022 to a blizzard of publicity, it got 81.6 million hours watched in its the first week on the Netflix schedule.

While a strictly apples-apples comparison of Harry & Meghan to their later efforts for Netflix isn’t possible because the streaming giant only started releasing six-month viewership information for all its series in 2023, three things are obvious when looking at the numbers:

• The numbers clearly show that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s only big hit has been Harry & Meghan

• That royal series is now two-and-a-half years old

• Subjects matter: The royal series was a success while their non-royal efforts have struggled. In particular, Harry’s Heart of Invictus series was so poorly received that it only appeared on the Netflix lists during its first six months on the service (it premiered in August 2023).

Using the Netflix Excel files of the viewership of its series since the first half of 2023, I compiled my own list to compare how each of their series did since their initial release.