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"Harry & Meghan": Part 2 is released
The 2nd fractional of Netflix's documentary miniseries connected Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, deed servers astir the satellite Thursday morning. In it, the mates overgarment a stark representation of the animosity that grew betwixt themselves and Harry's closest household members amid what they accidental was racist and defamatory sum by the British media. All of which, they say, drove them away.
Harry says the hostility — which helium and Meghan blasted connected the rigidity and self-preservation-at-all-cost mentality of the royal family, on with the mercilessness of Britain's tabloid property — exploded successful a gathering with his father, present King Charles III, and his member Prince William shouting astatine him portion his grandma Queen Elizabeth II sat and looked on.
The royal household has declined to respond to the allegations successful the bid frankincense far, but it has denied Harry and Meghan's allegations of racism and said the issues raised by the couple, "particularly that of race, are concerning." Buckingham Palace has said it would code the matters privately.
Below are the apical takeaways from the last instalments of the show, which has become Netflix's most-streamed documentary ever. You tin read here astir the highlights from the archetypal 3 episodes, which dropped past week.
"Stealing the limelight"
The mates accidental Harry's household became unhappy during their travel to Australia, erstwhile Meghan started exuding prima power. There were perceptions, they accidental - which echoed sentiments felt astir Harry's parent Diana during her matrimony to then-Prince Charles - that the royal outsider was taking excessively overmuch attraction distant from the much elder members of the family.
"The contented is erstwhile idiosyncratic who's marrying in, who should beryllium a 'supporting act,' is past stealing the limelight oregon is doing the occupation amended than those who were calved to bash this, past upsets radical - it shifts the balance" Harry says successful occurrence 4 of the series.
It was astir then, the mates says, that the British tabloids started criticizing Meghan, and successful peculiar coating her successful a antagonistic airy against her sister-in-law Kate.
The mates person said for years that the negative media sum took connected racist overtones and had a heavy interaction connected Meghan's intelligence health. In the documentary, they accidental it deed her peculiarly hard erstwhile she realized that overmuch of the British nationalist accepted what the U.K. tabloids were printing arsenic fact.
Meghan: "I needed help, but I wasn't allowed"
Both Harry and Meghan portrayed the royal household arsenic highly reluctant to amusement immoderate nationalist signs of vulnerability — to the grade that Meghan claims she was told not to question intelligence wellness enactment erstwhile she needed it most. The mates first revealed Meghan's struggles with intelligence wellness during their interrogation with Oprah Winfrey past year.
Harry recounts a infinitesimal galore years agone successful the Netflix bid erstwhile helium said his parent Diana was crying successful a car and her hubby Charles told her she had "30 seconds" to straighten retired her makeup, enactment connected a grin and look to look the press.
Meghan, they say, recovered herself nether the aforesaid benignant of pressure, from some the property and the family, and it led her to suicidal thoughts.
"I thought if I wasn't astir anymore, this each stops," she says successful occurrence four.
"I retrieve her telling maine that — that she'd thought astir taking her ain life," says her mother, Doria Ragland, breaking down successful tears successful the episode. "That broke my heart… That's not an casual 1 for a ma to hear."
"I needed help, but I wasn't allowed to," says Meghan. "They were disquieted however it would look for the institution."
Prince Harry says helium knew his woman "was struggling," but helium "never thought it would get to that stage. I felt aggravated and ashamed. I didn't woody with it precise well... what took implicit my feelings was my royal role."
"You are making radical privation to termination me"
Meghan and Harry person maintained for years that the British property deliberately attacked the mixed-race American duchess, casting her arsenic an intruder and detractor.
"I saw cartoons of maine connected each fours and Meghan holding a canine collar," recalls Harry successful the series.
Meghan blames specified reports for whipping up hatred of her that leaked from the property onto societal media, pointing to 1 tweet successful peculiar that said she "just needs to die, idiosyncratic should bash it."
"You are making radical privation to termination me," Meghan says successful occurrence 5 of the property attacks. "It's not conscionable a tabloid, it's not conscionable immoderate story, you are making maine scared... That night, to beryllium up and down successful the mediate of the nighttime checking connected security, that's existent — are my babies safe? And you've created it for what? Because you're bored, oregon due to the fact that it sells your papers? It's existent what you're doing, and that's what I don't deliberation radical understand."
The erstwhile caput of counterterrorism policing successful Britain said recently that the threats Meghan faced were so "disgusting and precise real," coming mostly from the far-right.
A miscarriage, and "the unravelling"
Harry, Meghan and their associates accidental successful occurrence 5 of the Netflix bid that "everything changed" astir their relations with different royal household members aft the couple's determination to instrumentality connected Britain's almighty tabloid property implicit what they saw arsenic a barrage of negative, unfair articles.
It was sparked by the Daily Mail tabloid reprinting parts of a letter that Meghan wrote to her father — which she says successful the bid she was advised to constitute by "senior members of the family."
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"It was horrendous," Meghan says, referring to the leaking of the missive to the media and the Daily Mail newspaper's selective printing of portions of it. If the insubstantial had printed the full letter, she says, "it would it person painted a wholly antithetic picture," arsenic she says they removed "everything that described the media arsenic manipulating" her father.
The mates accidental they met with elder royals and lawyers and pushed for speedy ineligible enactment against the newspaper's publisher.
"We had to gully a line," says Meghan. But she says the royal household did nothing.
Recalling a speech with Prince Charles, Harry says successful the docuseries: "My begetter said to me: 'Darling boy, you can't instrumentality connected the media, the media volition ever beryllium the media.'"
That was a constituent connected which Harry says helium and his begetter "fundamentally disagree."
"After months of saying she needs to bash thing astir this, we took our ain ineligible advice," says the prince. Meghan says that aft she and Harry's 2019 decision to record a lawsuit against the Daily Mail independently, "everything changed… That litigation was astir apt the catalyst for each of the unravelling."
Harry adjacent blamed the Daily Mail nonfiction and the accent it caused to his woman for a miscarriage she suffered successful July 2020.
"Bearing successful caput the accent that that caused, the deficiency of sleep, and the timing of the pregnancy," says Harry, "I tin accidental from what I saw, that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to bash to her."
The mates yet won their ineligible conflict with the Daily Mail's publisher, with British courts ruling that the insubstantial had breached Meghan's privacy.
A "terrifying" meeting, without Meghan
As the antagonistic property sum continued, the mates accidental they felt progressively isolated from different members of Harry's family, truthful they started looking west, considering a determination retired of the U.K. and abandoning their royal titles.
Meghan says successful occurrence 5 that they "decided we were going to beryllium stepping backmost — not stepping down, but stepping back." But earlier they could hold to the details of a caller statement with the family, Harry says that "key portion of accusation — that we were consenting to relinquish our titles — had been leaked."
As Meghan returned to Canada, wherever they were surviving astatine the time, to beryllium with their lad Archie, Harry was called to a gathering astatine his grandmother's state property successful Sandringham.
"Imagine a roundtable speech and you arsenic the ma and the woman — and the people successful galore regards — aren't capable to person a spot astatine the table," Meghan says of that gathering successful the documentary, with Harry adding: "It was wide they planned it truthful you weren't successful the room."
Harry says helium went successful hoping to put a "half in, fractional out" royal presumption for his atomic family, "but it became precise wide that extremity was not up for treatment oregon debate." He says the gathering descended into his begetter and brother, some aboriginal kings, shouting astatine him arsenic the queen listened successful silence.
"It was terrifying to person my member screaming and shouting astatine me, and my begetter accidental things that simply weren't true, and my grandma softly beryllium determination and instrumentality it each in," helium says.
Harry says the gathering ended "without a solidified enactment plan. From their perspective, they had to judge it was much astir america and the issues we had arsenic opposed to their spouse — the media — and the narration that was causing truthful overmuch symptom for us. They saw what they wanted to see."
"The saddest portion of it," Harry adds, "was this wedge created betwixt maine and my brother, truthful that he's present connected the instauration side. And portion of that I get — I recognize that's his inheritance and its already engrained successful him that portion of his work is the endurance of this institution."
Harry suggests what came adjacent was a last straw. Within conscionable hours of the tense meeting, the tabloids were retired with stories "that said portion of the crushed we were leaving was due to the fact that Meghan had bullied america out." He says the palace released a "joint statement" astir the couple's plans, but "no 1 had asked maine to enactment that out."
Harry says it was a motion that his household was consenting to provender lies to the property to support the royal instauration — astatine the disbursal of the information and himself and his wife.
"Within 4 hours they happened to prevarication to support my brother, but successful 3 years they ne'er would support us," says the prince. It was past helium says helium knew they had to permission Britain, though helium insists successful the documentary that Meghan "never asked to leave."
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- King Charles III
- British Royal Family
- Prince William Duke of Cambridge
- Netflix
- Prince Harry Duke of Sussex
- Meghan Duchess of Sussex
- Racism
Tucker Reals is the CBSNews.com overseas editor, based astatine the CBS News London bureau.
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