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The ten facts to note in the documentary of Meghan and Harry

2022-12-09T22:33:21.633Z


With the doc Harry & Meghan the Sussexes intended to give “their version of the facts”. Here is what we learn by watching this first burst of episodes online on Netflix since Thursday.


Three years have passed since their resounding break with the monarchy.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are back in the spotlight with the release of their soberly titled

Harry & Meghan

documentary series , streaming on Netflix.

The opportunity to take stock of what emerges from the first three episodes, online since this Thursday, December 8.

On video,

Harry & Meghan

 : the new trailer for their Netflix documentary

A documentary filmed before the Queen's death

From the start, it is specified that all the interviews were completed in August 2022, i.e. before the death of Elizabeth II, on September 8 at Balmoral, and that “the royal family declined to comment on the documentary” .

What the Palace has since denied to the British press.

Still, in the first scenes, we find Harry at Heathrow airport in images he filmed himself using his smartphone in March 2020, at the height of the Megxit crisis. .

At this precise moment, he is preparing to leave the United Kingdom for the home stretch, for his last obligations to the Crown.

“A friend of ours suggested that we document this period.

With all the misinformation going around, especially about us and leaving,

it seemed like a very sensible idea, ”said the one Meghan nicknamed “H”.

Before reconsidering his choice to leave the most famous royal family in the world.

“My role is to protect my family.

When you're born into this position, with all that it entails, and the surge of hate over the past three years, especially towards my wife and my son.

(…) It is a matter of duty and I believe that being part of this family, it is my duty to reveal the opportunism and corruption that plague our media.

In the aftermath, Meghan is seen separately, filming herself from her Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

Before reconsidering his choice to leave the most famous royal family in the world.

“My role is to protect my family.

When you're born into this position, with all that it entails, and the surge of hate over the past three years, especially towards my wife and my son.

(…) It is a matter of duty and I believe that being part of this family, it is my duty to reveal the opportunism and corruption that plague our media.

In the aftermath, Meghan is seen separately, filming herself from her Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

Before reconsidering his choice to leave the most famous royal family in the world.

“My role is to protect my family.

When you're born into this position, with all that it entails, and the surge of hate over the past three years, especially towards my wife and my son.

(…) It is a matter of duty and I believe that being part of this family, it is my duty to reveal the opportunism and corruption that plague our media.

In the aftermath, Meghan is seen separately, filming herself from her Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

and the surge of hatred over the past three years, especially towards my wife and son.

(…) It is a matter of duty and I believe that being part of this family, it is my duty to reveal the opportunism and corruption that plague our media.

In the aftermath, Meghan is seen separately, filming herself from her Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

and the surge of hatred over the past three years, especially towards my wife and son.

(…) It is a matter of duty and I believe that being part of this family, it is my duty to reveal the opportunism and corruption that plague our media.

In the aftermath, Meghan is seen separately, filming herself from her Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

filming himself from his Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

filming himself from his Vancouver hideaway.

Towel on her head, she does not hide her disappointment: “Unfortunately, by not taking a stand, they are destroying us”.

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Harry & Meghan

 : the first cutesy and smooth episode of the Netflix documentary

Love at first sight on Instagram

It was known that Meghan and Harry had met through a friend.

We now know all the details of their crush.

And it's on Instagram that it happens, in 2016. Harry relates: "I was scrolling through my feed, and a friend had this video of them two, it was like a Snapchat... with dog ears and that was the first thing.

I asked "Who is it?".

The prince then does for everything meets the actress of

Suits

who is then freshly divorced and has 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.

"And H arrived," remembers the American actress with a smile in front of director Liz Garbus' camera.

"It was literally a game changer."

Meghan's tense first meeting with Kate and William

Episode 2 of the series goes behind the scenes of the meeting between Meghan Markle, Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Except that at the time, the heroine of

Suits

does not know the codes of the royal family at all.

"When I first met Will and Kate, they came over for dinner, I remember I was wearing ripped jeans and I was barefoot," says Archie and Lilibeth's mother.

“I am very tactile, I always have been.

I didn't realize that was very disturbing to a lot of Brits.

I think I understood very quickly that external formalism was also private.

That there is a way of being in front of others.

Then you close the door and you think "Great, we can relax now."

But this formalist exists on both sides of the door.

And that surprised me a lot.”

Read alsoKate and William will not watch the

Harry & Meghan

documentary , but…

Racism and “unconscious bias”

In the third episode, the Sussexes tackle the racism of the media and the paparazzi towards Meghan Markle.

A year and a half after his shock interview on American television, in which he accused a member of the royal family of racism, Harry believes this time that this factor played a significant role in the hostility of the press towards his mixed-race wife.

In this regard, he does not spare the Crown either, pointing to “unconscious biases” within the royal family.

In video, Meghan Markle claims Buckingham helped 'spread lies'

The “it will not last” of the royal family

The Duke of Sussex said the fact that his wife was originally an American actress 'blurred' the image his family had of her from the start.

“When my family met her, they were impressed,” he recalls.

"Some of them weren't sure what to do... They were surprised that a redhead could come across such a beautiful woman - and such a smart woman - but the fact that I'm dating an American actress is probably what clouded their judgment the most at first: 'Oh, she's an American actress. It's not going to last.'” Meghan Markle adds: “My acting profession was the biggest problem, oddly.

There was a big idea of ​​what it looks like from a UK perspective.”

Harry's covert attack on William

Harry is not kind to his older brother, Prince William.

Without ever pronouncing his name, he says he regrets the attitude of the men of the royal family ready to marry “someone who fits the mold”.

“I believe that many in the family, especially men, may be tempted or feel compelled to marry someone who fits the mold.

It's the difference between a decision of reason and one dictated by the heart,” he says.

The fiasco of Meghan's first bow to the Queen

Between Harry and Meghan, things are getting serious.

And inevitably, the day of the meeting with Elizabeth II arrives.

“My grandmother was the first high dignitary that Meghan met.

She didn't know how it was.

And it was a shock for her.

(...) How do I explain to Meghan that I am bowing to my grandmother?

It's strange, ”laughs the Duke of Sussex today.

This is where Meghan enters the scene, miming a wide bow in front of the camera, in front of the slightly puzzled eyes of her husband.

The Nazi uniform, “one of the biggest mistakes of my life”

In the third episode of

Harry & Meghan

, the Duke of Sussex looks back on a significant episode of his youth: that day in January 2005, when he went to a fancy dress party in a uniform with a swastika armband.

“It's probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

I was so ashamed.

All I wanted after was to fix things, ”he confides in front of the camera.

“If I had acted like nothing had happened, I would have made the same mistakes again, but I learned a lesson from them,” he continues, adding that two meetings in particular had “a profound impact” on him.

Following this incident, Harry explains that he indeed spoke with the chief rabbi of London and a Holocaust survivor in Berlin.

The paparazzi, trauma never healed

In this series, Harry does not hesitate to type on the tabloids, with fallacious methods, which dissect the actions of Meghan and chase her family and friends.

The 38-year-old prince even considers his wife's situation "very similar" to that of his mother Lady Diana, who died in Paris in a car accident in 1997 while being chased by the paparazzi shortly after her divorce from Charles.

“In my mother's time, it was physical harassment, cameras in your face, following you, chasing you.

The paparazzi still harass people, but it's done more online today,” he says.

“To see another woman I love going through this frenzy is tough.

It's the hunter versus the prey."

“No matter how hard I tried,

if I behaved, which I did, they always found a way to destroy me, ”says Meghan.

The documentary uses an excerpt from Diana's 1995 confessional interview, which Prince William has asked never to be broadcast again.

Read also

Harry & Meghan,

episode 2: welcome to the hagiography of Meghan Markle

The Balls of the Markle Clan

Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle's mother, speaks publicly for the first time in the second episode of the documentary.

“My name is Doria and I am Meghan's mother.

These last five years have been difficult,” she begins.

"I want my voice to be heard, that's for sure.

To talk about what I went through as a mother.”

The voice of Doria Ragland, until now, no one had ever heard it.

At least not in the media.

Unlike Thomas Markle, her ex-husband and father of Meghan Markle.

If the father and daughter no longer speak to each other today, many rumors have circulated about their estrangement.

The British tabloids once said that Meghan had set things on fire by denying her access to her wedding.

But according to the Sussexes, this is not the case.

In reality,

the discord dates back to a few days before the princely wedding.

At the time, the press revealed that Thomas Markle indulged in fake paparazzi in exchange for generous checks.

“I was flabbergasted that Tom could take part in this circus (…).

That he would benefit from it… As a parent, you don't do that.

No.

It's not that being a parent, ”comments Doria Ragland who is now the only close relative to share the daily life of the Sussexes in California.

And for good reason: despite numerous reminders to obtain explanations, Meghan was forced to draw a line under her father.

What makes Harry bitter: “Of course what happened is incredibly sad.

She had a father before that and now she doesn't.

And I take that on 'cause if Meg wasn't with me,

In this sequence of the series, the American also wants to put the dots on the i.

She returns in particular to the outrageous remarks of her half-sister Samantha in the British tabloids.

For the Duchess, it's simple: they don't see each other.

The last time she saw her, she was in her twenties.

“I don't know your middle name, I don't know your birthday.

And you tell people that you raised me?”, scandalized Meghan.

On video, in a 2012 video, Meghan Markle talks about the racist attacks she suffered

Source: lefigaro

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