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Prince Harry, the youngest son of Charles III, and his wife Meghan criticize the “unwritten contract” between the royal family and a British press that “exploits” them, in a controversial documentary released on Thursday that also denounces latent racism.
“We had not been allowed to tell our story because they did not want to”says the former American actress, 41, in one of the first three episodes of the documentary series “Harry & Meghan” disseminated by Netflix.
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“We are not allowed, it has always been like this, until now”they add together, explaining how since their first joint interview, on November 27, 2017, after the announcement of their engagement, all their statements and behavior were “a reality show orchestrated” by the palace.
“The Royal Correspondents Pack is essentially an extended public relations arm of the royal family, an arrangement that has been around for more than 30 years,” it states Harry38, who continues to hold the tabloids responsible for the death of her mother, Princess Diana, in 1997, when she was persecuted by the paparazzi.
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“This family is ours to exploit, their trauma is our story and we control the narrative” think the British media according to that “unwritten contract”, adds the the princepointing to a negative publicity campaign against them when they resisted harassment that spread to Meghan’s friends and family in the United States.
“Unconscious biases”
The series begins with the love story between the prince and the actressa fervent mixed-race feminist raised in the laid-back nonchalance of Hollywood, and progresses through its first three chapters to the eve of her wedding in May 2018.
The next three episodes, which will appear on December 15, more damaging to the royal family are anticipated, for including details about the reasons that led the couple to leave the monarchy in 2020 to go live in California.
barely recovered from death of Isabel II In September, the royalty is thus preparing for potentially explosive accusations at a time when it seeks to modernize its image, promoted by the new monarchs Carlos III and Camila, and their heirs Guillermo and Catalina.
Buckingham Palace did not comment ahead of the series premiere. but sources from the royal household quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper assured this weekend that the monarchs are “a bit fed up” with the constant attacks.
In this first installment, the racism that Meghan denounces having suffered is already alluded tofrom the brooch with a black head worn by the wife of a cousin of Isabel II at the first Christmas dinner with the actress in 2017 to images and comments about the colonial past of the British Empire.
“There is a very high level of unconscious bias,” says Harrywhich says that he had to correct the education he received as a child.
“A lot of money and give your version”
This comes at the worst time for the British royal familyshaken last week by a scandal of racism by a godmother of Guillermo, who had to resign as bridesmaid after making offensive comments to a black guest at the Buckingham Palace.
In a powerful interview last year with American television star Oprah Winfrey, Harry and meghan They had already accused an unnamed member of the royal family of worrying about the skin color their future children would have.
The series, with testimonies from friends and collaborators of the couple but without any of their critics, explains, for example, how the former British colony of Jamaica was the center of a very profitable slave trade, whose ships were financed for centuries by the English kings and whose benefits allowed to build the “greatest empire the world has ever seen.”
The unpopularity of the Dukes of Sussex in the UK, where they are accused of taking financial advantage of the monarchy without sharing their obligations, it does not seem that it will improve with this documentary.
“They are hypocrites, on the one hand they say they want privacy and on the other look at what they post,” royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams, who has worked for outlets including Britain’s BBC and CNN in the US, told AFP.
In his opinion, “they do it for two reasons: to earn a lot of money and to give their version, as a form of revenge.” But they are not addressed to the British public but “to the whole world with the United States at the center”, he considers.
Source: Elcomercio
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