Did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle miscalculate the result of their recently-released Netflix docuseries?
05.12.2022 - 17:39 / usmagazine.com
They promise to tell the truth — the “full” truth. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hinted that they will tell their “full” story in their highly anticipated Netflix documentary.
“It’s really hard to look back on it now and go, ‘What on earth happened?'” the Duke of Sussex, 38, says in the first moments of the Harry & Meghan trailer, which was released on Monday, December 5, before later explaining, “No one knows the full truth [of what happened]. We know the full truth.”
The Invictus Games founder seemingly claims that the palace planted negative stories about him and Meghan, 41, during the height of their battle with the press. “There’s a hierarchy of the family,” Harry says. “You know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories.”
He continued: “It’s a dirty game.”
In the Harry & Meghan trailer — which will chronicle the couple’s life in California with son Archie, 3, and daughter Lili, 18 months — Harry also compares the way the former Suits actress was treated by the press and the royal family to the negative attention that his late mother, Princess Diana, endured before her death in 1997. “The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution — this feeding frenzy … I was terrified,” the former military pilot says, as headlines about Diana and Princess Kate flash across the screen. “I didn’t want history to repeat itself.”
This is not the first time that Harry has drawn comparisons between the treatment his wife and mother received after joining the royal family. During the duo’s March 2021 tell-all interview with CBS, the Better Help CIO opened up about feeling “helpless” when it came to fighting against the constant coverage from the U.K. press.
“I thought my family would help, but every single ask,
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