After restraining his blows’Against the royal family in the early episodes, the Sussexes go there much more frankly. Netflix airs this Thursday the sequel to the documentary series harry and meghanin which the couple s’he takes it head-on on his loved ones.
This new burst of’The episodes should not reconcile the couple with their detractors, so much is shown there.’self satisfaction. Meghan and Harry appear there as heroes, who could have modernized the monarchy, if they had been allowed to do so. This documentary series should also not reconcile them with the royal family, presented as manipulative and unscrupulous.
fairy tale and jealousy
The fourth episode begins with Meghan and Harry’s wedding, which took place on May 19, 2018. It tells how the couple went from’Rockstar’s popularity, after a union portrayed as a fairy tale in the media, to full-blown attacks in the press.
Throughout these recent episodes, Meghan and Harry appear as vectors of modernity and d’opening. Champion Serena Williams, present at her wedding, s’enthusiasm of the gospel choir present at the’time in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor.
“J”‘I thought it was very brave to push the limits without wanting to”, explains the tennis player.
“Royalty is needed’a revival of’Energy’modernize to speak to the new generations”, emphasizes James Holt, director of the couple’s Foundation, Archewell. “They seem to speak to the new generation very easily,” he adds.’historian David Olusoga.
For Harry and Meghan, c’it is a trip to Australia and New Zealand that will highlight his popularity. “I think it was a turning point, because’they were so popular,” said Lucy Fraser, a friend of the couple.’inside the palace, they began to feel threatened.
An “unhealthy game” of the royal family
The documentary theory: Harry and Meghan were too popular and making money’shadow William and Kate, the tabloids were then instructed to take down the’Meghan Markle image.
“They started tearing it down,” said one of his friends. Then the criticism began in the tabloids of Meghan, who became a “difficult Duchess” – in the’opposite of the’positive image conveyed by Kate. As for the racist attacks, they multiply with the birth of her son Archie.
How is this change of tone explained? Harry directly accuses the royal family of’having mounted the press against Meghan and him.
“The problem is’is that when someone’he’s supposed to take a supporting role, and he gets married and steals the show or does the job better than he was born to do it, he annoys people, he annoys people.’balance,” he says.
It also evokes the “unhealthy game” the royal family plays with the press. “There are leaks, but some are voluntary,” she says. He also accuses his father Charles of n’I have not done anything to achieve it’stopped.
The parallelism is made once again with Princess Diana, accused in the’It was from’having outshone Charles during a trip to Australia. “With L’media attention came from jealousy,” the princess explained in an excerpt from her 1995 interview with the BBC.
After the “war on Meghan”, a forced Megxit?
The second episode tells the backstage of Megxit, described as a more forced than chosen separation.
“There was a real war against Meghan,” Jenny Afia, her lawyer, testifies.
His council claims to have “seen evidence of the negative speeches the palace made about Harry and Meghan to please ad’others”.
The couple then considered leaving the UK. After considering in 2018 as’they settle in New Zealand, then in South Africa in 2019, they dream of Canada in 2020. And they begin to think about continuing the role assigned to them by the queen, d’a representative role with the Commonwealth countries, away from the British press.
Weather’they want to reduce their activity, and no, l’stop, they are forced, after new leaks in the press, orchestrated, according to Harry, by his own father, to speed up their departure. By his account, five options are offered, from the status quo to full withdrawal. Harry advocates “50/50.” “We would have our work, but we would also work in support of the queen,” he explains.
“But very soon I’understood that the’objective’It wasn’t for discussion or debate,” Harry adds.
“vs’It was terrifying to see my brother yelling at me and my dad telling me inaccurate things, and my grandmother sitting there talking silently.’charge,” he said.
A missed “opportunity” for the Crown
Harry presents this departure as a huge missed opportunity for the royal family, which could have shown a more modern, Commonwealth-like image.
Although Barbados has just decided that it will no longer have Queen Elizabeth as head of the’State, and that Kate and William are mistreated during their trip to the Caribbean due to the UK’s slave past, the presence of Meghan and Harry could have changed everything, according to the documentary.
“Everyone in this system, whether it’s my family, staff, communication equipment, everyone, has been lost.’a great opportunity with my wife,” Prince Harry said.
L’historian David Olusoga refers to Meghan as “an icon,” a “figure who has given us so much’hopes.” “What makes the’Palace’s inability to defend Meghan is even more appalling, c’is that he’main argument of the monarchy in this country, c’is the Commonwealth,” he continues.
For her part, Meghan tells an anecdote about her return to Canada, after her last official engagement in Westminster. “He who leads the’equipment on board came s’sit next to me, he took off his hat and’has said ‘Thank you for what you have done for the country.'”concludes the’fallen icon.
Source: BFM TV
