Get a First Look at Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s Documentary About the Girl Scouts
Pass the Thin Mints, please!
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
There is something quietly radical about a documentary that centers four young girls and their relentless pursuit of a sales goal — no irony, no condescension, just the real, competitive, occasionally chaotic world of Girl Scout cookie season. Cookie Queens, executive produced by Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan through their production company Archewell Productions, arrives in theaters on August 7, and the trailer alone makes a case for why this story deserved a proper cinematic treatment.
According to Harper's Bazaar, the film was directed by Alysa Nahmias and follows four girls — Nikki, Olive, Shannon Elizabeth, and Ara — through the annual ritual of door-to-door sales, sidewalk tables, and the particular hustle required to move boxes of Thin Mints at scale. Co-produced by Beautiful Stories and AJNA Films, with Nahmias, Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, and Jennifer Sims also serving as producers, the project is billed as a story of adventure, friendship, and growing up — which sounds soft until you watch kids negotiate with strangers and strategize like tiny CEOs.
Why Meghan Said Yes Immediately
For Meghan, this one was personal. A former Girl Scout herself — with her mother as troop leader — she's described the documentary as something she and Harry knew they wanted behind the moment they saw early footage. In a statement, she cited the film's "edgy yet humanizing tone" and its ability to treat a nostalgic tradition with both reverence and freshness. That's a harder balance to strike than it sounds, and it's clearly what sold her.
The film premiered at Sundance's family matinee section in January 2026 — marking Harry and Meghan's first appearance at the festival — before going on to win the Festival Favorite Audience Award at SXSW. That trajectory, from Sundance to a theatrical release with a passionate audience already behind it, suggests Cookie Queens landed exactly the way its subjects sell cookies: with strategy, charm, and a little bit of competitive fire.
The best fashion stories are about identity, ambition, and the aesthetics of becoming — and so, it turns out, is this one.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
