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Meghan Markle Reportedly Feels “Picked On” by the Royals

Prince “Just Call Me” Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly not feeling the love over all this royal drama.

According to The Daily Mail, Meghan’s “friends” are saying she and Harry feel “picked on” over all the new sanctions on when and where the couple can use their titles and the restriction on the use of the word royal. Meghan, according to a source, doesn’t appreciate the insinuation that she and Harry would use the title for financial gain.

Starting on April 1st, Meghan and Harry will no longer be able to use royal in any of their branding (we’ll miss you, @sussexroyal). On February 21st, the couple’s spokesperson released a statement clarifying the new rules.

“While The Duke and Duchess are focused on plans to establish a new non-profit organisation, given the specific UK government rules surrounding the use of the word ‘Royal,’ it has been therefore agreed that their non-profit organisation will not utilise the name ‘Sussex Royal’ or any other iteration of ‘Royal,’” the statement said on their website. “For the above reason, the trademark applications that had been filed as protective measures and that reflected the same standard trademarking requests as done for The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have been removed.”

Unfortunately, according to Us Weekly, this public statement high-key upset Queen Elizabeth II and caused another round of family drama. “She’s so disappointed that her own grandchild would heap so much embarrassment on the monarchy and bring all this unwanted attention on his family at the worst possible time,” a source told the publication.

Now The Daily Mail source claiming to be close with the couple says it’s Meghan and, by extension, Harry who feel slighted. Apparently, there are rumors that the queen only put all these rules in place to avoid backlash from other, possibly jealous, members of the family and court.

Honestly, it seems like everyone involved would like to fast-forward through the next couple of months of this transition. While the queen has been very supportive of Meghan Markle and (Prince) Harry’s choice to step back from senior royal duties and life in the U.K. (reportedly urging the family “not to obstruct their aspirations for a new life”), it’s all taken a bit of a toll. A source recently revealed to Vanity Fair that “this has been rather hurtful for her” and that Her Royal Highness just wants it “over and done with.”

On that, at least, it seems everyone can agree.

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'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' Is Officially Getting Picked Up by Netflix

Sabrina the Teenage Witch, that staple of ’90s TV, is officially coming back to the small screen, courtesy of Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Netflix. Sabrina was originally reported to be in the works as a possible Riverdale companion on The CW, but [Deadline is now reporting] that the show is instead heading straight to Netflix to air for 20 episodes over two seasons.

For Riverdale fans, there’s more good news: there will apparently be a crossover with the Riverdale team working to bring Sabrina back to the screen. Aguirre-Sacasa will be back to write the pilot as he did for Riverdale, and Lee Toland Krieger, who directed the first episode of Riverdale, is coming back to helm the first episode of Sabrina.

The name of the series is still up in the air—although it’s officially based on the graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, not the ’90s cult show. Considering that that book is also part of the Archie Comics universe (which Aguirre-Sacasa presides over as chief creative officer), the theory about Betty’s mom in Riverdale being related to Sabrina is starting to look like it makes just a bit more sense, no? It also clears up why Sabrina was left out when other Archie Comics characters were always popping up in Riverdale.

However, there’s a twist to this Sabrina reboot: Remember how happy and bubbly the original show was? Not so much here. Just like the unexpectedly dark world of Riverdale, the Sabrina revival is “a dark drama in the horror genre,” according to Deadline. The report adds that, “tonally,” it’s more like Rosemary’s Baby and the Exorcist. Which is fine, because who needs sleep anyway?

There are more details on that, too—some of which we knew already, but it makes them no less exciting, should a reminder be needed: According to Deadline, Sabrina will be “wrestling to reconcile her dual nature—half-witch, half-mortal—while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family, and the daylight world humans inhabit.” Existential crisis plus actual world-threatening crisis? Exhausting to be Sabrina, but it sounds like it’ll make for some riveting episodes.

Fingers crossed that the original date for the show to be released—sometime during the 2018-2019 season—doesn’t get pushed back too much further, because we’re not entirely certain we can wait.

In the meantime, we are pretty sure The CW is still happy—after all, it has its own Charmed reboot in the works, helped by Jane the Virgin Creator Jennie Snyder Urman.

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