Netflix increased the pressure further on Monday before the worldwide broadcast of the documentary on Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, thanks to a second trailer where the couple criticizes the royal family but also the press.
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We see the enthusiasm that the couple had aroused until their marriage, then suddenly a black screen. “Everything has changed” comments in voiceover Prince Harry, who has been living in California since 2020 with his wife Meghan Markle, after having renounced all his royal obligations.
“There is a hierarchy in the family,” says Harry, 38. “There are leaks, but also made-up stories (…) “It’s a dirty game,” he says as images of newspapers and rotary presses scroll by.
“There was a war against Meghan, to meet other people’s agendas,” says a lawyer close to the couple.
“It’s about hate, it’s about race,” adds a friend.
The first three episodes of the big-budget series, apprehensively awaited at Buckingham Palace, will air on December 8, exactly three months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The other three will follow on December 15.
“I realized, they’re never going to protect you,” adds Meghan, 41.
“I was terrified, I didn’t want history to repeat itself,” Harry also confides, as the face of his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident in 1997 in Paris appears. was chased by paparazzi. He also denounces “the pain and suffering of women who marry someone within the institution”.
“Nobody knows the whole truth. We know the whole truth”, he asserts in conclusion.
The first Netflix trailer, very Hollywood with many black and white photos of Meghan and Harry, was released on Thursday, when his brother, Prince William, and his wife Kate were in the United States for their first trip since the death of Queen Elizabeth.
William, now heir to the crown, has been notoriously at odds with his brother since Harry and Meghan publicly criticized the royal family last year, accusing him of racism in particular.
After the documentary series, soberly titled “Harry & Meghan”, Prince Harry is yet to publish his memoir on January 10, entitled “The Substitute”. A book with “raw and unvarnished honesty” according to the publisher, enough to worry the British royal family a little more.