Why the Sussexes’ friendship with their Montecito neighbour, Paramount boss Brian Robbins, is their smartest move yet. For a TV show called Succession , there was precious little about the royal family in Jesse Armstrong’s satirical black comedy-drama. Happily, for any who were disappointed by that omission, British royals appear to have a cameo part in the real-life takeover saga engulfing the media family that owns Paramount Global – and that partly inspired the HBO series.
And not just any royals, but the box-office Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Harry and Meghan are close friends with Brian Robbins, the conglomerate’s joint chief executive, and his wife, fashion designer Tracy. The couples live a stone’s throw from each other in Montecito, California , and were first spotted together at the January premiere of Paramount’s reggae biopic, Bob Marley: One Love , in Kingston, Jamaica.
Harry and Meghan’s visit to the Caribbean nation raised eyebrows, not least because they were photographed with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who has made no secret of his desire to replace the monarchy with a republic. Meghan married her first husband, American film producer Trevor Engelson, on a Jamaican beach in 2011, while Harry toured the country the following year to mark the late Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. But other than that, the couple have no obvious connection to the island.
What on earth were they doing there? It later emerged that they were flown to Jamaica on a.
