A Video Diary About the “Team Harry” Marital Dilemma: Where the Prince and Meghan Met, and What Their Parents Really Think about Their Marriage

The “Team Harry” framing highlights the fact that the couple have differing opinions on what is right and wrong. Their supporters see them as principled activists who have called out racism in Britain and the Royal family at great personal cost. Their detractors see them as complainers and ingrates who turned their back on the country after it welcomed Meghan and threw the couple a spectacular wedding at Windsor Castle in 2018.

Over six episodes, the streaming giant has promised “unprecedented and In-depth documentary series,” which will showcase the other side of the royal marriage of Harry andMeghan. The first three episodes will be released Thursday, with the second batch to be posted Dec. 15.

They detail the pair’s initial romance and Meghan’s first exposure to the structures and demands of royal life, as well as Harry’s childhood, the pervasive nature of Britain’s tabloid media and the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

Buckingham and Kensington Palaces will likely be braced for the fallout from the series, after sustained tensions between Harry and his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William.

“It’s really hard to look back on it now and go, what on earth happened? In the first episode of the video diary show, Harry wondered how he and his partner ended up here.

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He said he became concerned about the safety of his family, and attacked the intrusion of the media.

Harry took aim at the media within the first few minutes of the show. No one knows what is true. The media, as well as the institution, know the full truth, because they have been involved in it. He considers it his duty to uncover the exploitation and bribe that happens within the media.

The series contains no revelations. Instead, it’s an expanded version of the couple’s perspective on why they left the Royal family nearly two years ago. The Royal family’s co-dependence with Britain’s press and the toll it takes is something the couple and their Archewell foundation employees focus on. Tim Burt, who does strategic communications for the foundation, describes the unwritten contract.

The series comes at a crucial moment for the monarchy as King Charles III tries to show that the institution still has a role to play after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, whose personal popularity dampened criticism of the crown during her 70-year reign. The House of Windsor was founded by Charles to bring together Britain’s many ethnic and faith groups, and he wants to use the early days of his rule to do that.

Buckingham Palace said it would not be commenting on the docu-series, which was released on Thursday.

The couple have spoken before about the constraints placed on them while members of the royal family, and that frustration re-emerged repeatedly in the documentary.

The announcement of her engagement was described as an “orchestrated reality show”. Speaking of the media fascination with the prince’s previous girlfriend, Harry spoke of how other members of the royal family struggled to share his concern.

“As far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they had been put through as well. Harry said that it was almost like a ritual. “My wife had to go through that, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? Why should you get special treatment? Why should she be protected?,” he said, paraphrasing their arguments.

Race became a central issue for the monarchy following Harry and Meghan’s interview with American talk show host Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Before their first child was born, a member of the royal family allegedly commented on how dark the baby’s skin might be.

Harry said that there is a lot of unconscious bias when it comes to skeletons in the closet, as sometimes you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

There is no one’s fault with unconscious bias. He said that once it was pointed out or identified within you, you have to make it right.

Meghan and Harry and the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in the first episode of the TV series ‘What is going on in my dad?’

Elsewhere in the first batch of episodes, Harry commented on some previous marriages among his relatives and ancestors. There is a temptation for people in the family to get married to someone that would fit the mold of someone they are destined to be with.

“They were surprised … the fact that I was dating an American actress was probably what clouded their judgement more than anything else at the beginning,” he added. “The actress thing was the biggest problem, funnily enough,” Meghan added.

Harry and his mother, Princess Diana, died in a car crash while being chased by the media. There is so much in common with my mum. He said in the first episode that she was warm about her and confidence was the same.

“I remember thinking, how can I ever find someone who is willing and capable to be able to withstand all the baggage that comes with being with me?” He said so.

It showed the breakdown of her relationship with her father, over a controversy of whether he staged a series of photographs of her in the run up to their wedding.

It is incredibly sad that she does not have a father even though she had one before this. If Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad according to Harry.

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The first three episodes were released on Thursday, with three more scheduled for next week. Interviews were completed in August, the month before the Queen’s death, according to the series.

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LONDON — Britain’s monarchy is bracing for more bombshells to be lobbed over the palace gates Thursday as Netflix releases the first three episodes of a series that promises to tell the “full truth” about Prince Harry and Meghan’s estrangement from the royal family.

The royal family is not a racist family, Prince William told reporters after the interview.

Last week a Black advocate for survivors of domestic abuse alleged that a senior member of the royal household asked about her origins during a reception at the palace. Coverage of the issue filled British media, overshadowing William and his wife Kate’s much-anticipated visit to Boston, which the palace had hoped would highlight their environmental credentials.

The program will be watched carefully in the U.K., where even the teasers were criticized for offering misleading images to back up the emotive narration alleging misogyny, unfair media treatment and racism.

In one section of the film, there are clips of paparazzo and old footage of Princess Diana being followed by the media, as Harry says in a voiceover: ” The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy.” … I didn’t want history to repeat itself so I was terrified.

Sky News reported that one of the clips was used to show reporters and photographers waiting outside a court while a TV star arrived.

“There’s a hierarchy of the family,” Harry says, over an image of the royal family standing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. “You know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories.”

That is followed by a picture of a photographer perched on another balcony as Harry and Meghan walk with their young son Archie down below. While the scene suggests the photographer was covertly snapping pictures of a private moment, the photo actually shows an accredited press photographer who was covering the couple’s meeting with Desmond Tutu in 2019.

The Duke and the Duchess are in complete control of how they look but are not interested in being out of the spotlight. But, well, that’s just not how celebrity works.

The BBC and the Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s most influential newspapers, picked up on this theme in their coverage of William and Kate’s three-day trip to Boston, where they handed out environmental prizes, met with anti-violence campaigners and went to a basketball game.

These days in Britain, very little unites the right and left. “Harry & Meghan,” the intimate Netflix series released Thursday, is quickly shaping up to be the exception.

The first three episodes of the docuseries, directed by Liz Garbus and produced in conjunction with the production company of Prince Harry and his wife, got skewered by a bipartisan group of critics. Although “skewered” may not actually capture the harshness of some of the commentary.

Piers Morgan, who has been vociferously critical of the couple in the past, wastes no time laying into the series in his scathing review in The Sun, a tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch:

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Who are the world’s biggest victims right now? You might think that the poor people of Ukraine are the ones being bombed and raped by the barbarians. Or those whose lives have been ruined by the Covid pandemic that continues to cause widespread death and long-term illness. The global cost of living crisis has caused massive financial hardship for millions of people.

But no. The world’s largest victims are the immensely wealthy Prince Harry and his bride, model-turned-vampire, model-turned-royalty-of-shame, mistress-turned-bishop, daughter-in-law, and spouse of a royal family member.

Morgan cautions viewers that they might need a sick bucket. He was not the only one to evoke gastrointestinal distress. The headline for Lucy Mangan’s review in the left-leaning Guardian, exclaims that the first three episodes were “so sickening I almost brought up my breakfast.”

The series so far has some sweet moments, including Prince Harry and Meghan being charming and funny with one another, but she doesn’t find the finished product satisfying.

What do we left with in the end? Exactly the same story we always knew, told in the way we would expect to hear it from the people who are telling it. Those that don’t care will not watch. Those who do care — which is to say are voyeuristically invested in the real-life soap opera — will still read into it anything they want to and doubtless confirm all their previous ideas. There are many reasons to start another round of tabloid craziness, including Harry’s mention of members of the royal family who consider the pressure placed on anyone marrying in a royal wedding a rite of passage and resist allowing anyone else to avoid what their own spouses went through. It’s unclear who the villains of the piece will benefit from this, beyond the media.

The criticism, however, did not just come from the political right. Britain’s Guardian, which is liberal and more likely to be sympathetic to the couple’s politics, called the series “a one-sided PR effort.”

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Across the water in Ireland — no fan of the British monarchy — the Irish Times described the first three hours as “a sometimes unwatchable plunge into Planet Sussex.”

The taxpayer in the U.K. pays for the royal family and there is a expectation that they will be available to the media, and that’s a sense of “We pay, you pose.”

There is some opinion on Prince Harry in his home country. He was one of the most popular royals of his time, with ratings that compared to his late grandmother. Today his popularity sits at just 38%, according to research firm YouGov.

“I am glad they’ve made it, because I don’t like what they’ve done to the Royal family,” said Veale, while strolling around London’s Covent Garden on Thursday looking at the Christmas lights. ” I think this will make people hate them even more and I’m glad of that.”

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But who’s to say that people haven’t gotten a glimpse of who they are? What makes their version — a heavily produced, edited and controlled version — more honest than any version of their lives that’s come before? The series uses a version of events that is similar to real life. When she first connected to Harry, she wanted to get to know him through his social media posts, so she decided to review his account for a way to get to know him.

The series is disappointing, not only because of its content, but because it is a lot like what we have already heard or seen. There are some new aspects — friends who’ve never commented, photos we’ve never seen — but otherwise there’s little payoff and little to change people’s minds about them. It’s a little boring and self-promotional. They don’t seem to come off as likeable or a lot less so. Notably, it’s perhaps the first time that much of the dislike is directed toward Harry, instead of just Meghan.

If he had been seen in this way before, he may have been seen as a hapless victim of an attention seeking tactic known to him from growing up the son of Princess Diana. He knows that he wants to see what he wants to see.