Meghan and Harry want to settle their accounts.
With their documentary series, broadcast on Netflix since this Thursday, December 8, 9 a.m., the Sussexes had a specific goal: to reveal behind the scenes of the royal family.
And explain the reason for their hasty departure at the start of 2020. To do this, they have sequenced their confidences in two bursts of three episodes (the first is broadcast this Thursday, the other Thursday will be on December 15 ).
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We expected startling revelations.
It is not so.
Anyway, for now.
After watching the first episode, we remain perplexed.
No crisp information, as Buckingham Palace feared.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle complain, as in March 2021, of the relentlessness of the paparazzi, denounce the fate reserved for women in the royal family... Apart from that, the content is hollow, meaningless.
In short, there is nothing to chew on.
To the chagrin of the British tabloids, ready to lead the counter-offensive, they who are so hated by the Sussexes.
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Flaunting their privacy
On the other hand, what is surprising in this Netflix production is that Meghan and Harry do not hesitate to share everything about them: their intimate photos, their private text messages … At the beginning of the year 2020, they said to leave the royal family to live away from the media, to live in peace once and for all.
We expected to know nothing more of them, and to cling only to a few stolen photos from the cover of the
Sun..
.
But no, they are the ones who share everything now.
After an interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, here they are at the heart of a Netflix documentary series, while Harry will publish his memoirs in January.
Meghan and Harry complain that their story is slipping away from them, that the media is scrutinizing their every move, and on the other hand, they are just fueling the media hype.
Certainly, in this Netflix documentary, they sorted the photos and videos, selected the information.
Nevertheless, we always talk about them and themselves (their meeting, their childhood, their new life in Montecito...)
Across the Channel, already, the British press does not miss one.
The release of the documentary so dreaded by Buckingham is on the front page of all the tabloids this Thursday.
The Guardian
or
The Times
even devote live to it, that is to say if the subject worries the United Kingdom … And that, Meghan and Harry have understood it well.
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What we can possibly remember from this first episode is behind the scenes of their romantic encounter.
It was in the summer of 2016, the American was then freshly divorced and had planned several trips, including a tour of Europe.
"She was just planning to enjoy her freedom," says her friend Lindsay Jill Roth.
"I really wanted to stay single," says Meghan Markle.
Except that, you know the rest, she suddenly meets the prince - whom she says she does not know - through a friend.
"And H arrived," remembers the American actress with a smile in front of director Liz Garbus' camera.
"It was literally a game changer."
The following ?
The couple tells it in great detail.
The first date at 76 rue Dean, in the very chic district of Soho in London, is conclusive.
And this, despite the delay of Harry, who arrives "sweating" and "panicked".
"I left after an hour and told him I had something planned," Meghan said in the footage.
Then in the evening, I called him and said to him: "I'm leaving the day after tomorrow. Do you want to eat together tomorrow evening?" I'm sure he thought that I was direct, very American”, recalls the main concerned.
The idyll begins.
Back home in Toronto, Meghan Markle ends up joining Harry a few weeks later in Botswana.
And will never leave him again.
This is, in a way, the only material that we will remember from the start of the Netflix show.
Their version of the facts stops, for the moment, with their love story.
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