Harry and Meghan Netflix series tries to blame everything on racism, world press conclude
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Harry and Meghan sought to blame it all on racism when they gave their firsthand account of the events that led to their departure from real life in a new Netflix series.
At least that’s the conclusion of the world’s media after reviewing the first three episodes, with Spain’s La Vanguardia concluding that it amounted less to an attack on the royal family than perceived racism in British society as a whole.
Italy’s La Repubblica agreed, saying the film is “full of” anti-UK racism claims made by the couple, their supporters and handpicked experts, but it is a “thesis of dubious value” as the series also It clearly shows that they are very popular in Britain.
In Germany, Bild said the couple “never miss an opportunity to bash the royal family”, while France’s Le Monde says the documentary does little to dispel the notion that they “never stop repeating the past and present damaging accusations.” no evidence.”
Sueddeutsche Zeitung points out that they have made more than $100 million from the disclosure and asks: ‘How much pity can you have?’
La Vanguardia de España concludes that the new Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary tries to blame racism for everything and is less an attack on royalty than an attack on Great Britain
Sueddeutsche Zeitung in Germany said the series amounts to a “declaration of war” against the monarchy, but questions how much pity one can really have for the couple.
German newspaper Bild says the tell-all story has been two years in the making and the couple “never misses an opportunity to hit the royal family”.
The first three episodes of the series dropped on Netflix yesterday morning and gave a lengthy account of the couple’s first meeting, early courtship and marriage proposal, cutting short a fight with the other royals before the wedding.
It also provided insight into Harry and Meghan’s lives growing up and key experiences, such as Diana’s death, which seem intended to provide justification for many of the claims that will be contained in the final three episodes.
They will not be released until next Thursday, December 15.
France’s Le Parisien said the opening episodes contain “nothing new under the sun” but spark “more chaos to come” by recounting the fateful events after Harry and Meghan’s wedding that saw them leave royal life and the Kingdom. United by California.
The royal family will have to “hold their breath” for another week, the newspaper assumes.
Le Monde came to a similar conclusion, saying there were “no startling revelations” and that the film has gone back so far that it is unlikely to change anyone’s mind.
“On the one hand, they will have further exasperated those who believe that the couple never stops reminiscing about the past and launch damaging accusations against the monarchy without evidence,” the newspaper says.
Die Zeit, Germany’s newspaper of record, concludes that the Sussexes “know what they’re doing” and while the series promises “the truth”, viewers have to wonder “what truths” are being told.
La Repubblica, one of Italy’s largest newspapers, also notes that the series contains “many” accusations of racism against Britain, but calls it a “thesis of dubious value.”
‘On the other hand, the [documentary] it will bolster those who think the couple is right to speak out against an outdated institution that maintains, from their point of view, racist biases’.
El País, one of the most important newspapers in Spain, described the film as “a Manichaean story”, that is, a black and white story about good and evil, which “lays the foundations of what will come next: the reasons for his departure.
Germany’s Die Zeit said the series sees Harry and Meghan “settling scores with the British royal family, again” and while the series promises to tell “the truth”, viewers must ask themselves “what truths” they are being told.
The newspaper headline reads: ‘They know what they are doing’.
‘Entertaining… but too much like a repeat’ was the summary from De Telegraaf in the Netherlands, while Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said it is not a documentary but an ‘infomercial’.
“It’s a kind of media stunt, an attempt to restore the image and, of course, the financial operation, since there is a lucrative contract at stake,” analyst Hugues Dayez said.
While the couple claims to be uncovering the murky relationship between royalty and the tabloid press, Dayez says that relationship, in which the public subsidizes the family in exchange for “a show,” is already an open secret.
“We do not believe it for two seconds, that is the problem: we feel the insincerity of this testimony,” he argues.
While Harry sometimes comes across as candid and emotional, especially when discussing past traumas and particularly his mother Diana, Dayez concludes that Meghan’s own emotions seem fake and manipulated.
“There’s a disconnect in relation to him,” he says. The interview where they are together, at one point she teases that she had to curtsy and that she didn’t know anything about it, and we see that he is having a hard time because she is talking about her family.
Norway’s national broadcaster NRK interviewed a royal expert who said the fallout from the series is likely to be an “all out war” between the couple and other royals.
Sweden’s Expressen concluded that there is now “no turning back” for Harry.