Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex have targeted the British media and vowed to relive their bitter separation from the British royal family in this highly anticipated Netflix documentary series.
The Harry & Meghan project launched on Thursday after months of speculation that the couple would be starring in a series.
In the video diary that aired in the first episode, which was recorded just after the couple had completed their final royal duties in March 2020, Harry said: “It’s so hard to look back now and say what really happened in the world. How did we come to that? until here?”
He said he was “very concerned about the safety of my family.”
Buckingham Palace is likely to be readied after the draw following the continuing tensions between Harry and his father, King Charles, and brother, Prince William.
Harry took aim at the British media in the opening minutes of the show. “No one knows the whole truth. We know the whole truth, the institutions know the whole truth, and the media know the whole truth because they were involved,” said Harry.
“My face is everywhere, my life is everywhere, the tabloids have taken over everything,” Meghan added of her early experience with the press.
Harry also compared Meghan to his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997 while being chased by paparazzi. A lot of things about Meghan and how she is so much like my mother… She has that same confidence, she has that warmth,” he said in the first episode.
“I accept that there will be people in the world who fundamentally disagree with what I do and how I do it. But I knew I had to do whatever it took to protect my family, especially after what happened to my mother,” Harry continued.
And Meghan described announcing their engagement in 2017 as a “managed reality show”.
The first three episodes were released on Thursday, with three more scheduled for next week. The interview ended in August, a month before the Queen’s death, according to the series.