British Royal News suggests that Meghan Markle might be trampling all over Queen Elizabeth’s legacy in the Netflix docuseries Harry and Meghan. This has prompted a lot of royal critics to ask – why is Prince Harry not defending his grandmother? Here’s what you need to know.
In Harry and Meghan, Buckingham Palace has been accused of briefing negative stories about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as part of “a war against Meghan.” Jenny Afia, Meghan’s lawyer who features in the documentary, claims she has seen evidence that the royal family were involved in negative articles being written about the couple at the time.
Meghan Markle Tramples All Over Deceased Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy In Netflix “Docuseries”; Why Is Prince Harry Not Defending His Grandmother?
“There was a real kind of war against Meghan and I’ve certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people’s agendas,” Afia says, as footage of Buckingham Palace is shown.
The lawyer later adds that the “barrage of negative articles” about the breakdown of Meghan’s relationship with her father, Thomas Markle, was the final straw in a “campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her.”
The series also includes footage of Meghan discussing the negative press she received, while photographs of front pages from British newspapers including The Sun, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Star are shown. One headline reads “Meghan made Kate cry”, referring to an alleged feud with the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, while another appears to describe the couple as “Heir heads.”
In the clip Meghan says: “You would just see it play out, like a story about someone in my family would pop up for a minute and they’d go ‘We’ve got to kind of make that go away.’ But there’s real estate on a website homepage, there is real estate there on a newspaper front cover, and something has to be filled in there about someone royal.”
In the first half of the series, Harry said members of his family questioned why Meghan needed more protection from the media than their wives had been given, but he said they failed to grasp the “race element.” The couple also took aim at the British press, with Meghan claiming “salacious stories” were “planted” in the lead-up to their wedding, and the couple saying they were “playing whack-a-mole” as the articles appeared.
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