They proclaimed it in all tones, they were going to tell “their story”, “their truth”. However, viewers who need scoops may be disappointed. The first three episodes of the documentary “the truth”, harry and meghanairing this Thursday on Netflix, it won’t necessarily teach you much.
The fallen couple relate episodes already described during their past interviews: the tabloid press made their lives miserable, Meghan Markle faced racism and members of the royal family are not very warm people.
A perfectly oiled communication campaign, which highlights the couple, committed, open to others, and which only asks for a little freedom. But for now, nothing to shake Buckingham.
Memories “invaded by paparazzi”
As expected, the British press is in the crosshairs of the couple. Harry thus exhausted the media in his country, denouncing the “opportunism and corruption that gangrene” the sector.
A message woven throughout the first three episodes, which reviews the beginnings of the romance between Harry and Meghan -everything changes and becomes a nightmare as soon as their romance is made public-, paralleled with the fate of Princess Diana harassed by photographers. “Most of my memories are invaded by the paparazzi,” says Harry.
“To see a woman I love experience this outpouring of hate from the press again. It’s hard, ”she says again.
The various testimonies point to the point, emphasizing the lack of scruples of the press -capable of “rummaging through the bins trying to hack accounts”, as a friend of the couple says- and the lack of freedom of the members. of the royal family.
“They live in a golden prison,” says Robert Hazell, author of The role of the monarchy in modern democracy. “They lack many of the freedoms we take for granted.”
Racism, protocol rigidity…
The second episode continues in this vein, adding the dimension of racism. Meghan Markle recounts her childhood memories of her as an already engaged young schoolgirl and the racism her mother faced. And the difficulty of being mixed race.
“Some family members said, ‘My wife had to go through this, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently?'” Harry said. ‘Why would you deserve another spell, why would she be protected from her?’ And I said, ‘The difference is about race.’”
Meghan and Harry also talk about how they came from different planets when they first met. How difficult it was for the Hollywood actress trying to fit into the mold of the British monarchy. One of the most authentic sequences in the documentary thus shows Meghan mocking the rigidity of the protocol, while Harry shows an annoyed smile next to her.
Never named, Kate and William also take him for his rank.
“I quickly understood that external formalism was also private,” Meghan Markle blurts out, as images of Kate and William dressed to the nines appear on the screen.
“When my family met her, they were blown away,” Harry recalls standing beside her. “I think they were surprised. Surprised that the redhead would win over such a beautiful woman.”
But if Harry talks about his family, none of its members are ever named. Therefore, the queen is almost absent from this documentary, appearing only in some archival footage. No more than the late sovereign, Charles, Kate and William are unnamed, as if an army of lawyers have marked the ground to avoid possible prosecution.
a disappointed hope
The third episode, which opens with a long evocation of the United Kingdom’s colonial past, which lives on in the Commonwealth, returns to Meghan Markle’s first steps in the country, and all the hope for openness and modernization that she brought then. Without explaining at the moment, since this hope was frustrated.
Meghan Markle talks again about the adjustments she had to make to try to fit in. “Most of the time when she was in Britain, she rarely wore colour,” she recalls. “If I understood correctly, it’s because you can’t wear the same color as her majesty at an event.”
The Duchess also settles scores with her own family, her half-sister Samantha Markle, who has spared no press, but also her father, Tom, who has sold his testimony to the tabloids.
The next three episodes of harry and meghan It will premiere on Netflix on December 15.
Source: BFM TV
