Kate in hush-hush pow wow with top TV producer

PRINCE HARRY and Meghan signed a deal worth an estimated £73 million to make films and programmes for streaming giant Netflix, but could the Duchess of Cambridge turn out to be the real TV star?

For I hear that our future queen held private talks this week with a high-powered television executive.

and insiders claim that Catherine could follow the example of her husband Prince William, whose environmental series with Sir David attenborough began on BBC1 this week, and make a TV documentary. It would be about early childhood development, a subject close to her heart.

The meeting, held via telephone on Tuesday, was with David Glover, who commissioned the hit Channel 4 show Gogglebox and was responsible for much of the television work of physicist Stephen Hawking.

‘Catherine is very interested in a programme,’ claims the source. ‘She thinks it could be a really significant way to explore an important subject. She’s been very impressed with

William’s efforts and knows how much he enjoyed making his Earthshot series.’ The programme could have the feel of the BBC’s popular geneaology series Who Do you Think you are? in which famous figures explore their ancestry. This week, Catherine, 39, revealed that she’d been looking back at four generations of her family as part of her work into early childhood development. During a trip to University College London, the Duchess met academics from the Children Of The 2020s project, which will track the lives of babies born in 2021 over five years and look at the effect of factors such as economic circumstances. a television programme would be a big step for Catherine, who used to be very nervous about public speaking but has become increasingly confident. a Kensington Palace spokesman declines to comment on the ‘private’ meeting. However, a royal source tells me the talks were ‘preliminary and for research purposes’.