“No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth.”
If there was any doubt remaining that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s long-awaited Netflix docu-series was going to blow the roof off Buckingham Palace, its newest trailer could have eviscerated it.
The jaw-dropping, one-minute sneak peek straight targets the royal establishment, with Harry himself calling out the “dirty game” of the monarchy, the “hierarchy” inside the Royal Family and the “pain and suffering” of the ladies who marry into it.
Again – that was all inside only one minute.
I, like thousands and thousands around the globe, am now extra invested in watching it than ever. Cracking open the chest of long-held secrets and techniques of the Royal Family, for us mere mortals to gaze upon for the primary time ever? Sign me up.
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But it begs the query: moreover the plain windfall, what’s in it for Harry and Meghan?
What is that this docu-series, if not a rehashing of their bombshell Royal Family exit interview with Oprah Winfrey?
There’s little question that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s sensational resignation from the Royal Family within the pursuit of happiness and freedom impressed many.
They’ve constructed the gorgeous household they’ve each at all times longed for (in a house value greater than $20 million), they’ve bought unparalleled entry to folks and organisations around the globe that can really assist them make an actual distinction of their philanthropy, and most significantly: they’ve bought one another.
Their determination to take a seat down with Oprah and air their grievances with the Royal Family was a divisive transfer, however as in all breakups, typically closure is what’s wanted.
That was virtually two years in the past – and right here we’re once more, about to listen to all the problems they confronted throughout their brief stint as a unit inside The Firm.
After watching the second trailer, I used to be hit with an sudden emotion: disappointment.
Back in 2017, with the media frenzy round Harry’s new relationship together with his then-actress-girlfriend exhibiting no indicators of burning out, Meghan hinted that in the future they’d inform their personal love story.
“I’m sure there will be a time when we will have to come forward and present ourselves and have stories to tell … Personally, I love a great love story,” she advised Vanity Fair.
From the primary sneak peek of the Netflix sequence, launched final week, it appeared like we have been lastly going to get it. There have been cosy footage of the pair kissing within the kitchen, smiling selfies, foolish photographs of them leaping within the air: it was their personal moments, the actual ones, the facet we’ve by no means seen earlier than.
With a lot adverse press dogging them lately, and a sense of being misunderstood, right here was their nice alternative: to flip the script and easily present the world who they’re and what they care about.
Instead, it seems we’re getting one other spherical within the limitless Sussexes v Monarchy struggle.
And who does it serve? Harry and Meghan are free, dwelling a privileged existence most may solely dream of, with the world at their ft and each alternative to have a lifetime of happiness.
They deserve it, and it took braveness for them to carve that out for themselves.
Of course, they owe us nothing, and are utterly entitled to dwell as personal residents, as they declared was their intention once they stop royal duties in early 2020.
But if they’re keen to fling open the doorways to their Montecito mansion and allow us to all in: it’s a disgrace it will possibly’t merely be to lastly present us who they’re, away from the negativity of the previous.
