Harry & Meghan on Netflix: Is this the final break with William and Kate?
Created: 2022-12-15, 5:08 p.m
By: Katja Kraft
"The saddest thing was this wedge that was driven between me and my brother," Harry (right) recalls the dispute that arose between him and William because the tabloids did not leave him and his Meghan alone.
© Martin Meissner
The Netflix miniseries "Harry & Meghan" continues: In the last three episodes, Harry also criticizes the late Queen and Prince William.
Especially the tabloids.
Our TV review.
Ah, what a royal treat it was always to make fun of the British royals.
The division was clear: either, one decided on the illustrious blasphemy for “Team William and Kate” or for “Team Harry and Meghan”.
Team One doesn't forgive this random US TV starlet Meghan for riding off the court with cool Harry;
Team two, on the other hand, think Kate's all-too-perfect demeanor is true acting, because William's wife always looks like she's been bred on a princess farm.
That's roughly how the lines of argument went.
Until now.
Thursday morning, nine o'clock, as reported, the last three episodes of the Netflix mini-series "Harry & Meghan"
on-line.
And everyone from “Team William and Kate” has to be a little ashamed for gossiping so nasty about the American.
Admission: It doesn't come across as nasty and diva-like as claimed by the British gossip press.
"Archie changed the game." Because Meghan and Harry only presented their son two days after birth, they were massively attacked.
© DOMINIC LIPINSKI
No wonder, one could argue that the six-part series was ultimately produced by the Sussex Archewell Foundation.
And indeed, these three episodes are staged like the perfect high-gloss cinema romance.
After the sweet introductory story (via Instagram! A prince! Scream!), Meghan's fantastic start on the mirror-smooth royal floor follows.
The subjects love them.
How not!, you think to yourself when you see the images of the two accompanied by emotional sounds, how they conquer the hearts of the people of the Commonwealth.
Mind you: the hearts
of all
people
of all
Skin color.
And here we are on the tricky topic that made the headlines after Meghan and Harry's (Team William/Kate: unspeakable!) Interview with Oprah Winfrey: As a woman with African American roots, Harry's chosen one would have been the perfect representative of a turning point in the British royal family.
Yes, that runs through the statements of friends and companions who have their say in the documentary: This opportunity was missed.
Harry as a child with his beloved mom Lady Diana.
© ALLAN LEWIS
And why?
Precisely because this perfect couple, as it is staged here, simply became too popular.
"When you get married, you should really only play a supporting role," Harry explains to himself about the dismissive reactions of his family, the "institution", as he always calls them, to Meghan.
"When you steal the limelight or do the job better than those who were born to do it, it pisses people off and upsets the balance." Suddenly, the front pages no longer filled Kate and William, but Meghan and Harry.
And so the last three episodes are primarily a reckoning with the drooling tabloids.
Shots of Harry's mother Diana are deliberately interspersed to show how history repeats itself.
"It was the same with my mum," the 38-year-old puts it like this again and again.
And for the viewers it becomes abundantly clear that someone now wants to fight for his wife like he would have liked to do for his mother as a boy.
Instead, Meghan, as she says in tears, had suicidal thoughts – and a miscarriage.
Harry: Prince William broke our covenant!
The fact that Harry was unable to protect her within the system is, and this is where the criticism of the "institution" is loud, because no one supported him.
Not his brother, not his father, not even the Queen.
The ditch that opened up between William and Harry grew deeper and deeper.
That, Harry says, is the saddest thing.
“William was now siding with the institution.
What I also understand is that this is his legacy, it has become second nature to him that he is responsible for maintaining this institution.” Sounds forgiving.
But at the same time, Harry accuses his brother of breaking a mutual pact.
They had never wanted to act publicly against each other.
Harry claims that William was the first to break this pact.
It's his view of things, William doesn't comment publicly on it.
As "Team William/Kate", however, one admits minute by minute that the real problem is not "this Meghan", but the system itself.
Having a family is really a challenge, and the fact that it's being watched by the whole world doesn't make fishing for a prince as attractive as it looks in Disney films.
Meghan, the monster that broke everything?
The accused herself aptly comments on this claim: "Harry wouldn't have felt so attracted to me if he hadn't already been on his own path."
the fact that the whole world is watching her doesn't make fishing for a prince quite as attractive as it looks in Disney films.
Meghan, the monster that broke everything?
The accused herself aptly comments on this claim: "Harry wouldn't have felt so attracted to me if he hadn't already been on his own path."
the fact that the whole world is watching her doesn't make fishing for a prince quite as attractive as it looks in Disney films.
Meghan, the monster that broke everything?
The accused herself aptly comments on this claim: "Harry wouldn't have felt so attracted to me if he hadn't already been on his own path."
Queen Elizabeth II © Jonathan Brady
People love fairy tales.
What we tend to forget about tabloid stories is that they are about real people.
Of course, Meghan and Harry are not as perfect as they are portrayed in the series.
And of course they push the game, about each other instead of talking to each other, here they go a screw further, providing the gossip with more fodder.
But seeing her like that, frolicking barefoot in the grass with her children, makes you wish her fairy tale had a happy ending.
Meghan: "The everlasting promise that love always wins." Why not?
