(Let’s see what’s revealed in the series’s final three parts.) Is it surprising that Kate isn’t necessarily an effusive hugger? Not exactly, and as far as damning criticism goes, it could be a lot worse. “I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside…that there is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door”-Meghan exhales dramatically-“but that formality carries over on both sides, and that was surprising to me.” In this case, there is little doubt that by “a lot of Brits,” Meghan is talking about Kate. I was a hugger-I didn’t realize that that was jarring for a lot of Brits,” Meghan recounts.
“Even when Will and Kate came over, and I had met her for the first time, I was in ripped jeans and I was barefoot. There is far less subtlety when Meghan uses a story about William and Kate to illustrate a point about the stuffiness of the royal family and the culture shock she experienced among them as an American. Assuming Prince Andrew would not be included in said discussions about Meghan, that leaves, again, William and Charles. Harry doesn’t name names, but there are only so many “members of the family” whose girlfriends or wives have suffered hyper-intruston by the press.
Here, the docuseries simultaneously flashes footage of Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson, and Kate being hounded by paparazzi. William and Kate exist as subtext throughout, like the elephants in the room. Its handling of William and Kate, thus far, is more nebulous, with subtle-and some not-so-subtle-references. In its first three (of six) hours, Harry & Meghan delves, with granular detail, into the couple’s courtship, the royal family’s tangled relationship with the British tabloids, and Meghan’s estrangement from her father, Thomas Markle. The premiere of Harry & Meghan on Thursday raised the question: How much would the Netflix docuseries say about the rift between the Sussexes and newly minted Waleses? Would the six-part Liz Garbus–directed project further alienate the two brothers, whom the world parasocially nurtured as their own after Princess Diana’s death? The relationship between Prince William and Prince Harry and their frankly more famous royal wives, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, has been strained at best in recent years, after Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior royals and told all-or what we thought was all- to Oprah Winfrey.
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