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Exactly three months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have unleashed a new tirade of accusations against the royal family in their hotly anticipated, $100 million Netflix documentary series.
The couple, who left the royal “firm” in 2020 and now reside in Montecito, Calif., start the series with a solemn statement claiming the royal family “declined to comment” on the contents of the series.
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace were quick to fire back, saying they had not been contacted through official channels by the couple’s Archewell production company or Netflix, who produced the show.
As Harry, 38, and 41-year-old Meghan’s give their version of events, viewers are treated to a flood of previously unseen photos and videos of the couple, starting from the early days of their relationship and culminating in snaps of their family life in California with children Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 18 months.
While Prince Harry, 38, praises his late mother, Princess Diana – going so far to compare her “‘compassion’” and “‘warmth’” to that of his wife – he has fewer kind words to say about his father, now King Charles III.
“I think it’s such a responsibility as human beings that if you bring a small person into this world, you should be doing anything you can to make the world a better place for them,” he says of his own journey with parenthood, noting that he did not want to repeat the “same mistakes” of his parents.
Harry also claimed he was “literally brought up” by his so-called “second family” in Africa, where he retreated for weeks and months at a time in the aftermath of his mother’s death in 1997.
Describing the family’s initial reaction to his romance with Markle, Harry unpacked the royal household’s “unconscious bias” around race.
The revelation came as the documentary noted that Princess Michael of Kent wore a controversial Blackamoor brooch to Meghan’s first royal Christmas – considered to be a racist emblem.
Though Harry did not discuss the jewelry gaffe directly, he admitted that “in this family, sometimes you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution.”
“The thing with unconscious bias,” he continued. “Is it’s actually no one’s fault, but once it’s been pointed out or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right.”
Harry also appeared to take a swipe at his estranged older brother, Prince William, and his wife Duchess Catherine — The Prince and Princess of Wales.
“I think for so many people in the family, especially obviously the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit in the mold as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with,” Harry told the cameras.
