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Royal experts today criticized Harry and Meghan’s new Netflix series for its alleged lack of “substance”, stating that it is “all sizzle, no steak”.
A host of commentators descended on television studios to weigh in on the first three episodes of the show, which premiered this morning.
Former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole said the first three episodes have been “all sizzle and no steak” and asked, “Where’s the meat?”
He added that the couple have been “complaining and whining” while living in a “hilltop fort in California.”
Highlighting the personal images and photos featured on the programme, ITV royal editor Chris Ship said the couple “basically videotaped their departure from the royal family”, despite having complained about the intrusion of media in their lives.
Royal experts today criticized Harry and Meghan’s new Netflix series for its alleged lack of “substance”, claiming it is “all sizzle, no steak”.
Speaking to GB News, Mr Cole said: ‘This is all sizzle and no steak; an expression I’m sure Netflix will understand. Where’s the meat?
“Because it doesn’t live up to its billing and if we’re only going to be treated to six episodes of them blandly saying ‘we’re wonderful and everyone else is horrible, we’re right and they’re wrong’, I think it’s going to pale pretty quickly.
“We just watched the first three episodes. But it’s not a good look, you know, whining and whining.
He went on to draw a contrast between the couple’s glamorous lives with the war in Ukraine and the struggles ordinary Britons face with rising energy and food prices.
“When you think of these two people in their hilltop fortress in California, they both look lovely, beautiful, healthy children,” he said.
‘They have all the money in the world, cars, people who want to see them, smile at them, tell them yes, what land do they have to worry about.
Former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole said the first three episodes have been “all sizzle and no steak” and asked, “Where’s the meat?”
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told GB News that he expects direct criticism from other members of the royal family on the next three episodes, due to be released next week.
‘Two time zones from where we are sitting in London, there is a terrible war going on. People are being killed, raped, and don’t know where they are going for their food and warmth.
‘In this country there are people who are afraid to turn on the central heating because they don’t think they can pay the bill.
‘I just got here on the train. All these people put up with the strikes and the eco-anarchists on the street preventing them from earning a living to pay their taxes to pay for all this [the Royal Family].’
He added: ‘You either want publicity or you don’t want publicity, but it goes with the territory.
And I told a minor royal who was complaining about unfair coverage, and I said, “The time for you to worry, mate, is when the media isn’t interested anymore.”
—Because that will mean that the media will no longer be interested in the monarchy.
And when that happens, the game ends. Let’s be honest about this.
His comments came as ITV’s royal editor highlighted on Good Morning Britain the large number of previously private videos and images that appear in the show’s first three episodes.
“You get little sneak peeks at how Meghan and Harry basically videotaped their departure from the Royal Family,” Ship said.
‘That might surprise some people since they were complaining about the intrusion.
“It could give the impression that they were always planning to do some Netflix documentary like this.
“For me, the problem is between the criticism that the press invaded their privacy and yet we have cameras inside their car filming them being chased by the paparazzi in the United States.
“For me, that’s quite uncomfortable… about those photos of them, allowing the cameras to take pictures of them in very private moments.”
Dickie Arbiter, 82, who was the Queen’s press spokesman from 1988 to 2000, also questioned the couple’s stated desire for privacy.
‘They left [the royal family] because they wanted privacy,” he told GB News.
‘Well, so much for privacy in this documentary because we’re seeing a lot of family photography, we’re seeing, albeit the backs of the children, a bit of a side profile, but we’re still seeing them.
“So it really fits his schedule.”
And royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told GB News that he expects direct criticism from other members of the royal family on the next three episodes, which will be released next week.
“This is about how I see it two things, one is money,” he said.
“The Sussexes have a contract with Netflix that has been estimated at about $100 million…and therefore they had to do something that was supposed to appeal more strongly to an American audience.”
“Essentially, although there are teases that could be related to them, they still don’t criticize individual members of the royal family.
“But there is no doubt that this will probably come, I suspect, in the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes.
Watching it, I have to say I’ll reserve judgment on how damaging it will be until I’ve seen it all.
“When it comes to privacy and you share intimate texts, intimate videos, they couldn’t be more intimate.
Privacy disappears when you have money. And then there’s the revenge factor.
‘That is left for the second part next Thursday where explosive revelations are promised, I think.’
Royal biographer Angela Levin told TalkTV that the couple have “rewritten history.”
In fact, I found it fascinating. Three hours I sat there,’ she said.
‘And the reason is that I have often said that they are only interested in speaking globally.
‘And this was like an A to Z of global complaints that if it had to do with them, they could handle it all.
‘I thought there was a real demand for them to take over.
They have rewritten history, they have remembered every little grievance during the five years that they have known each other.
‘Little things, like the zipper came off once. For God’s sake, who are you to keep all that in your head.
Very rude. There wasn’t much thank you for what Meghan got. S
Now he is rich and famous. He wouldn’t have been if he hadn’t married into the monarchy. And they broke his privacy in the best way.
Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler, said Harry and Meghan chose to cash in on the new show, when they could have been “the heart of the royal family”.
Burrell, 64, served as Her Majesty’s footman and then Diana’s butler for 10 years until her death in 1997.
Speaking on ITV’s Lorraine this morning in response to the release of the first three episodes of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s show, he said the Queen, who died aged 96 in September, would be “very upset and unhappy that Harry was saying so much”. , showing so many private things.
He added that the show is likely to create a new ‘conflict’ between the duke and his older brother Prince William, and has been ‘carefully directed’ by Harry and Meghan to ‘make them look like victims’.