Harry, Meghan blame bad luck for Spotify, Netflix failures

They’re not lazy, they’re just unlucky.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are blaming the coronavirus pandemic, the illness of the late Prince Philip, and the death of Queen Elizabeth II — everything but themselves — for the failure of their $20 million deal with Spotify and their teetering $100 million Netflix partnership, sources say.

“The word is that they think they’ve been really unlucky,” an insider told the Daily Mail.

The renegade royals, who swore off public duties in January 2020, have been privately moaning that the launch of Meghan’s “Archetypes” podcast last year was overshadowed by the death of Queen Elizabeth II — Harry’s grandmother and Britain’s longest-serving monarch — in September.

They say the impact of their blockbuster March 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they accused the royal family of racism, was dampened by public sympathy for the Duke of Edinburgh, who was in failing health and died weeks later.

And the COVID-19 pandemic torpedoed their plans to establish themselves as money-spinning global influencers, the two have complained to sources.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s claims of misfortune come just weeks after a top Spotify executive slammed them as “lazy” when the podcasting giant called off their pricey production deal.

Bill Simmons, the sports podcaster who is one of Spotify’s most senior executives, called the couple “f–ing grifters” this month after they delivered just 13 hours of programming in two and half years — 12 episodes of Markle’s “Archetypes” podcast, and a one-off holiday special.

It capped a disastrous run of bad PR that followed a widely mocked incident in May, when they claimed to have been victims of a high-speed car chase by paparazzi in New York City.