Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are planning to produce a Netflix film adaptation of Carley Fortune’s Meet Me at the Lake, the British newspaper the Sun reports.
Fortune’s novel, published in May by Berkley, follows a woman who inherits a cottage resort after her mother is killed in a car crash. She learns that a consultant her mother hired to help run the property is the man who stood her up for a second date a decade before.
The novel was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. A critic for Kirkus praised the book, writing, “Escape to the lakefront with this entertaining romance.”
Meet Me at the Lake, the Sun notes, contains echoes of Harry and Meghan’s own lives. Like the couple in the novel, they met and started dating in their 30s. And Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, was famously killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
The Daily Mail reports that the rights cost the royal couple $3.8 million. The newspaper notes that Fortune is a fan of Harry and Meghan, having praised Suits, the television show Meghan Markle starred in from 2011 to 2018. On X, the social media platform then known as Twitter, Fortune posted about the couple’s wedding, writing, “Meghan Markle is pulling up to the chapel and I am feeling very teary! Maybe it’s the 4am start.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
