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British Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle are once again looking for the big stage.
The streaming platform Netflix has produced a documentary series about the family dispute in the Windsor house, in which the two are the focus.
Patricia Alexandra Dreyer, DER SPIEGEL: »So Harry speaks in a very glorious way about his great love for Meghan. And then says: In the Windsor family, it is actually the case that men in particular choose their partners based on whether they fit into this role. Be a princess, be a duchess, be a princess. And that's not just a salvo against his father, who really married his mother Diana out of calculation at the time. But also against the brother, at least that's what it seems, because these pictures of William and Kate are shown at the same time. So you get the feeling, oh, someone else has a bone to pick here.”
Patricia Alexandra Dreyer, DER SPIEGEL: "The documentary also addresses how intrusive, and that's still an understatement, the British tabloid is. How they are harassed by paparazzi. What stories the media have come up with about them. How friends and acquaintances are pressured into revealing something about the two. How distorted and twisted and invented.«
Usually, the British royal family does not speak openly about private matters.
Many Brits therefore do not understand why the couple chose this form of publicity for their intimate affairs.
“I'm sure a lot went wrong. But that's in every family. And you just shut up and talk to each other.«
"I would have hoped they could work this all out in private."
"For someone who doesn't want to be in the media, they're looking for a lot of media attention."
Patricia Alexandra Dreyer, DER SPIEGEL: »With this documentary you are saying that this is our story. And we tell them. And if we decide for ourselves what we reveal, that's okay too if we show personal things. But of course, they don't do it for free. They make a lot of money doing this. And are therefore part of the media machine that they criticize so harshly.«
In their series, the couple also focuses on the Commonwealth as a lucrative legacy of the colonial era, but they themselves do not remain free of a double standard.
Patricia Alexandra Dreyer, DER SPIEGEL: "At first you don't even notice how outrageous it is that a member of the Windsor family worked it out so blatantly in a documentary. And then Harry and Meghan just have to ask themselves: why are you still members of this family? So why do you still have your titles then? And why is it so important to you that your children also get titles if this institution is so questionable in your heads?"