‘Harry & Meghan’ Volume I Review: Straightforward Romance Lacks Real Royal Dirt
08.12.2022 - 18:23
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Three hours into Netflix doc series Harry & Meghan and still no tell-all truths from the darkest corners of the House of Windsor. Anyone who had expected the curtain to be lifted on the deep-state machinations of The Firm to protect the brand will be feeling short-changed by Volume I which dropped today. The reported estrangement between Prince Harry and Prince William remains a closed book. Whatever the Queen said to Harry when he resigned from royal duties, it is still – like almost everything the Queen has ever said about anything – swathed in a decorous silence.
There are, as promised on the program’s title page, a wealth of images from the vaunted “never before seen personal archive,” but they’re mostly holiday snaps. Very happy snaps, certainly; very sweetly romantic and often goofy memories that include an Instagram pic of Meghan dressed up as a dog, but nothing that would trouble the print run of a tabloid front page.
The story so far is a straightforward romance, with the best-looking royals no longer in the business seen sitting on a couch agreeing that, guess what, they fell madly in love on their second date, consolidated the deal on a camping trip to Botswana, and realized that they also made a great philanthropic team. Harry says Meghan was everything he was looking for. “He had a list of things,” says Meghan, with just a touch of tartness. “Let’s not go there,” says Harry, with just the right dash of sheepishness.
It’s not all sweetness. They have a few targets in their sights, but they’re well outside the palace gates. Most of the second, and much the third, episode are given over to excoriating the said tabloids for doing the nasty stuff tabloids do: sending photographers to stake out Meghan’s Toronto
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