Harry and Meghan Netflix series: World media react to ‘explosive’ documentary

Harry and Meghan have declared ‘all-out war’ on the royal family with their Netflix series ‘TV bomb’, world media declared today as the first three parts of the series premiered.

Newspapers across Europe and from the United States to Australia carried the news on their front pages, saying the series will be “explosive” because the House of Windsor has “the world talking and the royal family preparing for the worst.”

‘Harry and Meghan renew clash with British royals,’ US NBC said, ‘racism [and] royal family lies’ was how Belgium’s 7sur7 summed it up, while Australia’s News.com said the first episode contained an ‘astonishing confession’.

Many awaited King Charles’s reaction, speculating that the new monarch could strip the couple of their royal titles or even ban them from their coronation depending on the accusations they make against their relatives.

The Irish Independent called the documentary “controversial” and said the royals are “bracing for bombs”.

The Dagbladet of Norway declared “total war” within the House of Windsor as they recounted the events depicted in the first three parts of the series.

And another Norwegian site, VG, described it as a ‘TV bomb’.

The highly anticipated series comes in two parts, with the first three episodes of the six-part documentary series now available to stream online.

The series contains tears from Meghan, who Harry repeatedly compares to Princess Diana, stating that both his mother and his wife were being persecuted by the press.

There are also a series of taunts against his father, King Charles III, and his brother, Prince William, as well as allegations of racism and “unconscious bias” in the royal family.

Meghan also claims that, as an American, she found the “formality” of being in the royal family “astonishing”, declaring that meeting the Queen for the first time was a “shock to the system”.

She said that Harry had said to her in the car: ‘You know how to curtsy, don’t you?’ And I thought it was a joke,’ she said.

They also discuss Princess Michael of Kent wearing a Blackamoor-style brooch for a pre-Christmas event the Duchess of Sussex attended in 2017. She was forced to apologize.

Harry said: ‘In this family, sometimes you’re part of the problem rather than part of the solution. And there is a huge level of unconscious bias. The unconscious bias thing isn’t really anyone’s fault.

Adds Meghan: “Obviously everyone knows about my career now because they made it an issue when I went to the UK.” Before that. They didn’t really treat me like a black woman.’

Harry claims that his family fired her when they found out she was an American actress, but insisted that he knew in his “heart” that he would marry her because he is “his mother’s son”.