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As a teenager with rebellious pimple,

Harry

believed that having a love was normal, natural, that everyone had it.

He lacked the experience to know anything more fake, which is very difficult to find.

That is why when he met Meghan, he was so in love that he wondered if, despite everything, life would not be giving him the rarity of starring in a miracle, that perhaps among the crowd of women only she combined with him, only she for him. him, no other, only one possible couple from among all the conceivable ones.

He was the son of his mother and like

Lady Di

he also chose the path of the heart and not convenience.

They first saw each other in the summer of 2016 on a

blind date

.

It was at Soho House

's

Dean Street Townhouse

London restaurant

.

Harry was half an hour late because of a traffic jam and Meghan thought it was a bad start that presaged that there would be no more dates.

In a few minutes, he not only reset that first impression, but the next day she called him to

have dinner

at the same place.

They left

dinner

mutually abducted, as if in

a trance

.

They both remember it in the first installment of the six-part series on Netflix (the last three can be seen on Thursday the 15th), but that inaugural chapter of the couple was already known since Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, expert journalists in the

Windsor

, they revealed it in 2020 in their book

'Finding Freedom'.

almost nothing new

There's actually little new information in the

'Henry & Meghan' docuseries,

except that their son Archie's favorite song is

Elton John's

'Bennie And The Jets' .

The boy, sixth in line to the throne, is also heard speaking, describing the flushed sky at sunset in Montecito as "beautiful."

"Nobody knows the whole truth. We know the

truth

and we want to tell it," says Harry to justify this series.

"I'm not going to say I'm comfortable, but when people have no idea who you are for so long it's really nice to have the opportunity to let them know who you are,"

Meghan

says .

But like any pro domo sua

version

, Harry and Meghan's is also a part story;

that is, partial.

It is its truth compared to other possible versions, which are conspicuous by their absence here, because as stated at the beginning: "The members of the

royal family

declined to comment on the content of this

documentary

."

Here only the Sussexes and their mariachis speak.

A secret and transatlantic love

They kept their

courtship

very secretive, they saw each other every two weeks, sometimes in Toronto, where she lived, but mostly in London, where the actress was staying at Kensington Palace.

In a couple of months she was already integrated and she knew

Eugenia de York

and her boyfriend at the time,

Jack Brooksbank.

Six months after their first meeting, they traveled to

Botswana

for a five-day getaway.

They camped

together and alone under the stars.

As Meghan

panicked

that the elephants would visit them,

Harry

assured her: "I'll protect you."

And she felt that she was in no danger in the arms of a war veteran who was almost six feet tall.

It was unforgettable, and that is why they remember it in detail.

The privacy and the jokes that Meghan shared on her Instagram

wall

and that only he understood ended shortly after returning from Botswana, when Harry's press officer announced that the courtship had been

discovered

and its publication was imminent.

Black woman, easy target

The leading couple tells their story from their first meeting to their departure from the royal family.

The

story

is supported by a dozen friends and collaborators and

Doria Ragland

, Meghan's mother, who with their testimonies confirm or complete the status of victims that the

Sussexes

claim to be right when explaining their departure from the United Kingdom and its facility in

California

.

At first it was all good luck and many saw the

bride as the fresh blood that was going to put a white institution in a

multiracial

empire on schedule

.

When she announced her engagement, the couple was touched by overwhelming

popularity

.

The British expressed their

jubilation

at the couple's public events.

But that state of grace did not last long.

The first

problems

came with the racist and

classist

comments from the tabloids on account of

Meghan's

African-American origin and her work as an actress.

Harry, who had already seen the consequences of the media's bullying of his own mother, was alarmed when the tabloids spoke of the bride's supposed haughtiness, her errors of protocol and called her a tyrant and narcissistic sociopath who made her employees cry .

The BBC's Danny Baker compared his son

Archie

on Twitter

with a chimpanzee and the 'Daily Mail' came to link Meghan's taste for avocados with 'the violation of human rights, drought and murder'.

They gave him no quarter.

As one of the interviewees says in the documentary: "Black woman, easy target."

We pay you and you pose

The affectionate reception of the very prudent Elizabeth II and

Prince Charles

to Meghan contrasted with some rudeness from other family members.

One of them described the exactriz as "Harry's showgirl" and Princess

Michael of Kent

, an uncomfortable cousin of the Windsors, had the rennet of putting on a brooch with the effigy of a black slave at the first dinner that Meghan shared with the

Windsors

.

One of the experts invited by the couple to "their" series summarizes the implicit content of the

Royal Rota,

the tacit contract of the relationship between the Windsors and the media: "We pay you and you pose."

But

Harry

challenges that swallow her: "It's basically the hunter against the prey. You have to get in the game or bad things will be published about you. It's a cutthroat business. With Meghan there were no limits

.

"

When the tabloid

hounds hunted his girlfriend for his girlfriend

, Harry asked his family for Meghan's protection, but everyone told him: "It's like a rite of passage. My wife has been through this before, why would she be different with your girlfriend? Why would you need to

protect her

?"

"The difference," Harry would reply, "is

race

."

For this reason, eight days after their relationship was made public, he decided to issue a statement to denounce the racist harassment.

At one point in the first chapter

Harry

explains the dilemma of the Windsors, especially in men: "There may be a temptation or an impulse to marry someone who fits the mold. My mother made decisions with her heart

and

I am the son of a my

mother

."

Cold War

A rift opened between

Guillermo

and

Harry

, Harry himself confirmed it in a documentary recorded in South Africa by the American chain ABC: "We are brothers. We will always be brothers. But at this moment we are going on

different

paths."

Even a newspaper as

institutional

as the 'Times' delved into the fraternal disagreements, attributing to reliable sources that Guillermo always "wanted to put the Sussexes in his place".

A chasm also opened up between

Kate

and

Meghan

and in that cold war, the contenders found

unequal

support among columnists.

A mulatto, divorced, a foreigner and an actress, Meghan had all the numbers for the more rancid faction to lash out at the couple of "

spoiled

children " and pounce on her, caricaturing her as "

frivolous

, climber and commoner".

Even in Toronto, where she lived during the filming of 'Suits', Meghan suffered

constant

harassment and not only herself but her

friends

and neighbors.

"If there were six grown men sleeping in cars around her house, wouldn't that be harassment?" she asked.

"We can't do anything because of who her partner is," she replied.

She had to count on special

security

, suspicious letters arrived.

The escape

Those are the facts that are told in the first three chapters and they are all well known: falling

in love

, commitment, wedding, children and bullying.

In the three pending chapters, the resignation of active membership in the

royal family

and the search for his own path, which provoked new

attacks

, will be told .

The couple's main enemy, television loudmouth

Piers Morgan

, put this jab at Meghan on Twitter: "She abandoned her family, she abandoned her father, she abandoned most of her old friends, she managed to

antagonize

Harry and William and now she has separated her husband from the royal family. I have nothing more to add."

But he did have one more thing to add, this poisonous advice to

Elizabeth II

: "The Queen must FIRE (sic) these royal swindlers: she should strip them of their titles before this pair of

scheming

and selfish Kardashian wannabes bring down the Monarchy."

The thing had been cooking since, in March 2019, the Sussexes left the

Nottingham Cottage

residence , on the grounds of Kensington Palace that they shared with the

Dukes of Cambridge

, to put land in between, settling down among the croaking of frogs in the 14 hectares of the '

Frogmore

' estate, in Windsor.

In June they left the Royal Foundation, which they also shared with William and Kate, and announced the creation of a new one.

Before leaving the

UK

Harry had consulted with his father and grandmother on how to find a space within the family in which to feel

comfortable

.

But

disassociating

was the only possible way out.

On March 9, 2020, they starred in the last act of their official agenda as Dukes of Sussex, on March 31 of the same year they definitively left the United Kingdom.

Explaining the defection, Harry says in the documentary: "The

nature

of being born into this position...and the level of

hate

that has been aroused in the last three years, especially against my wife and son, made me worry about safety

.

of my family. My job is to keep my family safe."

Perhaps the best summary of the docuseries is this confession of a Harry

blamed

for the treatment that the tabloids gave his wife: "She sacrificed everything she knew,

freedom

, to join my

world

. I sacrificed everything I had to join your world."

The series

will continue

;

but we already know that it will not

surprise

.

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