Netflix is postponing its documentary series on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle until 2023.
Deadline reports the streamer has become "rattled" after a series of attacks on the upcoming season of The Crown, which is due to release on November 9.
The documentary had been rumoured to launch in December, a month after the latest season of The Crown, which will focus on the 1990s and the growing schism between Charles and Diana.
There had already been nervousness about the latest season, which is set to be the most controversial yet, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
Over the weekend, former UK Prime Minister John Major hit out at the series, complaining about plot line set in 1991 in the first episode that he said never happened.
It was claimed that Major in the TV show had been summoned by Prince Charles to plot the removal of his mother Queen Elizabeth from the throne.
The episode was based off a real poll in the 1990s which suggested Britain had become tired of the monarchy and the fact the Queen had ruled for so long. In the episode, Charles (played by Dominic West) had asked Major for a clandestine meeting.
However, Major lashed out on the weekend claiming the storyline was nothing but "malicious nonsense".
"They're rattled at Netflix, and they blinked first and decided to postpone the documentary," a source reportedly told Deadline.
The publication claimed the streamer had planned to launch the show just weeks after The Crown to achieve a "royal double whammy".
Netflix is already said to be nervous about production on the fifth season of The Crown, due to take place next week, in which scenes will be filmed depicting the death of Princess Diana in 1997 in a Paris tunnel.
However, the company says the car crash itself will not be shown, with the show instead charting events before and after.
On August 31, 1997, Diana and boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed were riding in the passenger seats of a Mercedes-Benz, driven by Henri Paul, before the fatal crash.
Meanwhile, earlier in October, it was reported Harry and Meghan are at odds with Netflix and Archewell, their production company, over their own documentary series
US website Page Six quoted unnamed sources from Netflix as saying the couple wanted to backtrack on what they want to show the public in the upcoming show.
It further claimed they want chunks cut from the series, which has been in production for nearly a year now, but Netflix chiefs have stood by the Sussexes' filmmaking team who are desperate to keep the content.
"Harry and Meghan are having second thoughts on their own story, on their own project," the source said.
