Netflix’s ‘Harry & Meghan’: Were The Royal Family Given Prior Sight Of The Doc?
08.12.2022 - 14:23
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Netflix’s Harry & Meghan doc series is officially here and debate is already raging over whether the Royal Family were shown the series prior to launch, and how or if they will respond.
The family claim they were not asked for comment on the hotly-anticipated six-parter, BBC Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond told the BBC’s Today this morning, but the first episode, which dropped at 8 a.m. GMT (12 a.m. PST), starts with the disclaimer: “Members of the Royal Family declined to comment on the content within this series.”
It adds: “This is a first-hand account of Harry and Meghan’s story told with never before seen personal archive. All interviews were completed by August 2022.”
Rumors were swirling this week over whether the Royal Family had seen the show following the release of two trailers, in which Harry spoke of “the pain and suffering of women” marrying into the Royal Family and said he would tell the full truth behind the couple’s relationship with the Royal Family. The trailer has been criticized for showing misleading images and clips of paparazzi and the ‘press pack’.
No immediate allegations surfaced from the show’s opening episodes of the Archewell-produced series although the Duke of Sussex at one point claims: “The institution knows the full truth [about what happened to us] and the media knows the full truth, because they were in on it.”
Deadline understands British public broadcasters the BBC and Channel 4 have no policy to show the Royal Family documentaries about them prior to launch, although few are as sensitive as this one.
The row has shades of that over The Princes and the Press, a BBC doc partly about Harry’s relationship with William hosted by Amol Rajan that led the Royals to reportedly threaten
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