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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry made their first Sundance Film Festival appearance in Utah ahead of the premiere of their latest documentary, Cookie Queens.
On Saturday, January 24th, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a special screening of the film. The film follows four Girl Scouts as they navigate the iconic cookie sales season, detailing ambition, teamwork, and growth. At the event, the couple posed for photos with Amy Redford, daughter of the late Robert Redford.
The outing comes just days after Prince Harry gave emotional testimony in London in the early stages of a high-stakes lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Ltd., publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.
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Prince Harry, 41, and Duchess Meghan, 44, will serve as executive producers on the 91-minute film, which will be screened in the Family Matinee section of the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary was directed by Alisa Nahmias and produced in association with Archewell Productions, Beautiful Stories, and AJNA Films.
The project has personal meaning for Meghan, a Girl Scout who grew up in California, where her mother is a troop leader. In an April 2025 Instagram post promoting Lemonada Media’s podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan reflected on her early entrepreneurial roots, writing, “Being an entrepreneur starts young,” alongside a photo of herself as a child selling cookies.
The couple’s Sundance appearance comes just days after Prince Harry returned to London to begin final legal action against Associated Newspapers Ltd., publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday.
Harry is one of seven high-profile plaintiffs, including Elizabeth Hurley and Elton John, alleging illegal information collection by the media group. The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits Prince Harry has brought against British tabloids in recent years. The publisher denies the allegations.
On January 21, Prince Harry gave evidence ahead of schedule and spoke with visible emotion about the toll the legal battle and years of media scrutiny had taken on his family.
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“This is what has kept me going by standing up here and confronting them,” Harry told the court, his voice rising. “And they made my wife’s life absolutely miserable.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s involvement in Cookie Queens was first announced in December 2025, with the Sundance premiere marking their latest professional milestone.
