Harry and Meghan Netflix trailer: Palace planted stories to stop bad press

Buckingham Palace conducted "a existent benignant of warfare against Meghan", the duchess's lawyer has claimed.

Jenny Afia said she had "seen grounds that determination was antagonistic briefing against Harry and Meghan by the Palace to suit different people's agendas".

She makes the assertion successful the latest trailer for the couple's Netflix bid Harry & Meghan up of the merchandise of the 2nd instalment connected Thursday.

Buckingham Palace has truthful acold not commented connected the series.

But Meghan goes further successful the caller trailer, claiming the Palace strategically targeted website homepages and paper beforehand covers with stories.

"You would spot it play out," she says successful the trailer.

"A communicative astir idiosyncratic successful the household would popular up for a minute, and they'd go, 'We gotta marque that spell away.'

"But there's existent property connected a website homepage, determination is existent property connected a paper beforehand cover, and thing has to beryllium filled successful determination astir idiosyncratic royal," she says.

Neither Meghan nor anyone other successful the trailer offers grounds for the claims.

Later successful the trailer, Ms Afia, of Schillings instrumentality firm, says that the "barrage of antagonistic articles" astir the breakdown of the narration betwixt Meghan and her father, Thomas Markle, was portion of a run of "nasty" coverage astir Meghan.

She does not specifically accidental that stories astir Meghan and her begetter were planted by the Palace.

A person of Meghan, Lucy Fraser, adds successful the trailer: "Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace. And truthful they would provender stories connected her whether they were existent oregon not to debar different little favourable stories being printed."

The last 3 episodes of the documentary volition merchandise connected Netflix astatine 08:00 GMT connected Thursday.