Prince Harry: The new Netflix special Harry & Meghan shows Prince Harry recalling how Buckingham Palace reacted on the vilification of his then-girlfriend Meghan Markle by a section of the press.
Breaking their silence on the media hype surrounding their marriage and the scrutiny she faced when the two went public years ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have bared their heart in the docu-series. The first three episodes of the show that released on Thursday, showed Harry talking about what Meghan had to face. He narrates how it reminded him a lot of how the media treated his mother, the late Princess Diana.
Royal family response
Harry & Meghan centres on the lives of the royal couple. This is the first time since their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, that the couple addressed their relationship in public. They also opened up particularly on the response of the Royal Family to what Meghan was put through. In the early days of their relationship, a section of the British press vilified Meghan, putting her under intense scrutiny that many called excessive and bordering on harassment.
Harry recalls that Buckingham Palace, the seat of the royal family, instructed everyone to not react to the bad press. “The direction of the Palace was, ‘Don’t say anything’. But what people need to understand is, as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they’d been put through as well. So it was almost like a rite of passage. Some of the members of the family were like, ‘But my wife had to go through that, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? Why should you get special treatment, why should she be protected?’ And I said that the difference here is the race element,” Harry said.
Diana was ill-treated
The Duke of Sussex said he also saw parallels with how his mother, the late Princess Diana was treated by the press all through her life, particularly after her divorce from his father, King (then Prince) Charles.
“My mum was harassed throughout her life with dad. After they separated, the harassment went to new levels. The moment she divorced, the moment she left the Institution, she was by herself. Yes, she may have been one of the most influential, powerful women in the world, but she was… completely exposed to this. I saw things, I experienced things, I learned things… The pain and the suffering of women marrying into this Institution,” he added.
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Meghan Markle, who acted in Suits, began dating Harry in July 2016. They tied the knot in 2018 and welcomed their son Archie in 2020. Later that year, the couple moved to the US and withdrew from undertaking official royal engagements.
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