if there is There are two sides to every story, one of which is the royal family supported by the spectacle-hungry media and tabloid circuses, and the other the very one they both put under a lavish microscope. Are you a couple and who holds the truth? In new documentary series Harry & Meghanwhose first three episodes are now streaming on Netflix, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle argue their point of view.
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex split from the royal family in 2020 and completed their move to North America, they gave up their duties to live a life of public service in favor of an agency that kept its constant chaos behind closed doors along the highway. abandoned the trend. How—to gain an edge over those who roam the grounds of Buckingham Palace, and those stationed outside. I refused.”
Directed by Liz Garbus Harry & Meghan following last year Oprah, Meghan and Harry: CBS Primetime Special as their first on-camera interview since exposing the conversation that racism, harassment and financial retribution kept them from the palace and later from the UK altogether. The first release, a six-part documentary series, returns to the couple’s relatively normal beginnings (if there’s anything normal about your friend setting you up on a date with a literal prince). And how that maps out. After they tied the knot, everything happened to go wrong.
Ahead of the premiere, senior members of the British press, described by historian David Orthoga as promoting a “toxic” mentality, said the footage and images featured in the documentary’s trailer contained misleading footage. claimed to beanalysis from BBC The video, which was meant to depict the media frenzy the couple often faced, claimed it was actually pulled from the premiere Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Other clips capture model Katie Price appearing in court and attorney Michael Cohen swarming the paparazzi.
The second set of episodes will drop on December 15th. For now, here are the key takeaways from the first half of one side of the story.
of The royal palace silenced Meghan and Harry over racism
After months of dating, before her relationship with Prince Harry became public, Markle said she wasn’t often treated like a black woman. “Being a minority is very different, but it’s not going to be treated as a minority any time soon,” she explained. When I made him the center of my dissatisfaction with her, the prince added.
“As far as many families go, whatever she went through, they went through it as well,” he explained. “So it was almost like a rite of passage. But my wife had to go through it, so why should your girlfriend be treated differently?” Why should I receive special treatment? why should she be protected? And I said, ‘The difference here is the racial component.’ ”
As a child, Markle remembered realizing that her black, dark-skinned mother was treated differently. She recalled a woman questioning her mother at the grocery store, claiming she must have been her nanny, after which a woman walked up to her mother in the parking lot of her bowl in Hollywood. There was a time when she shouted her N her word. “She was silent until she got home,” she said. “We never talked about it.”
Appearing on camera for the first time, Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, expressed her regret for not letting racism sit with her daughter. Now she stands to subject her own children to similar scrutiny. In her Goldentime special last year, the Duchess first detailed the institutional racism she faced while pregnant with her first child, Archie. According to Markle, high-ranking members of the royal family — suspected to be Charles III or Prince William, possibly both — have expressed concern over how dark his skin is. It baffled Oprah, who doesn’t emanate.
Prince Harry ’embarrassed’ for wearing Nazi costume
While Markle noted the injustice and racism woven into both her own life and the fabric of Britain and America, Prince Harry chronicled the time he “spent his life happily sleepwalking.” , claimed that he believed his travels had made him unwittingly covert enough.Prejudices and diverse living conditions around the world.
“Unconscious bias is that it’s really no one’s fault,” he said. “But when it’s pointed out or identified in you, you have to correct it. It’s education. It’s awareness. And it’s a constant work in progress.” Images of Prince Harry wearing a Nazi uniform at a private party in 2020 resurfaced.
He added: His plight in doing so led him first to Chief Rabbi in London and then to Holocaust survivor in Berlin. “I could have ignored it, and I’ve probably made the same mistakes many times in my life. But I’ve learned from it.” He issued a statement of apology to the media outlets that acknowledged “pleasure and embarrassment”.
in the book battle of brothers, published in 2020, royal correspondent Robert Lacey claims that the Nazi uniform scandal drove a wedge between Harry and William, who, in particular, was 22 at the time, and supposedly accompanied his brother on an outing. He cited the imbalance of responsibilities between Harry and William. buy a costume.
In January, Prince Harry will release a 415-page memoir. spare, is a reference to the phrase “heir and spare”, referring to himself and William, who was the first to ascend the throne.of new york times The book faced multiple delays due to Prince’s reluctance to share certain elements of its content.
Meghan Markle’s mother ‘stunned’ by ex-husband‘s royal wedding shenanigans
Family drama took center stage in the press ahead of Harry and Meghan’s 2018 wedding. Although the title card says: It started with things. While Markle has denied having an affair with her, she apparently became close to her niece Ashley Hale, who was raised by Samantha’s parents.
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“How would you explain that this half-sister wasn’t invited to the wedding, but the half-sister’s daughter?” Markle recalled asking the royal communications team at the time. I remembered. Still walking on eggshells, the actress-turned-royal was understandably reluctant to feed the starving media frenzy even when she was trying to do the right thing. “My guidance was not to let her come to our wedding,” she explained. I told her why she was being given this kind of guidance and why this assessment was being done, and it hurt.”
It was an almost futile decision after news broke that Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, was taking her down the aisle and taking photos for the press just weeks before she was scheduled to meet Prince Harry for the first time. “I was really surprised that Tom would be part of this circus,” her mother said. “It’s sad that the media takes advantage of this and he takes advantage of it. Certainly, as a parent, that’s not what you do. That’s not parenting.”
When Markle found out her father wouldn’t be attending the ceremony, it didn’t come directly from him. , said of the days after offering to pick him up early to avoid the crowds and paparazzi that would inevitably show up outside his home. I found out through the tabloids that you weren’t at our wedding.”
Archival footage shows Markle and her father, flashbacks to a once-healthy relationship that fell apart as her life filled up princess diaries“She used to have a father, but now she doesn’t,” Prince Harry lamented. He would still be her father.
Meghan knew she was fighting a losing battle
Earlier in the documentary series, Prince Harry talks about “the pain and suffering of women who marry into this institution.” Now I can speak from both the experience of watching my mother navigate it and standing with Markle in the same way. Even when she announced her engagement, she came to understand the essential truth. find a way to destroy me ”
This is infused into her daily life, right down to her fashion choices. In 2019, a royal source said Elle Markle’s closet is filled with neutral clothes, all in department store beige, navy blue, and non-aggressive black and white options that don’t get in the way of her philanthropic or philanthropic work, so-called “functional work clothes.” was strategic in creating the Now the Duchess says she unintentionally wanted to poke the bear less than she used to.
“My understanding is that if you have a group event, you cannot wear the same colors as His Majesty.” , which also helped Markle hide in plain sight.
In an interview with Oprah, Markle claimed she didn’t delve into anything about Harry or the royal family when she started dating him. In the documentary, she confessed that her first instinct was to analyze his Instagram feed rather than google him. When following in Princess Diana’s footsteps, it’s hard to know if a crash course in dating the royal family hasn’t done her any good. I won’t go into too much detail about it, but in the following video preview Harry admits: I didn’t want history to repeat itself. ”
