These are the gestures that have put Meghan Markle in the spotlight
Meghan Markle wears her wedding dress again (with a white and midi dress)
Meghan Markle in her podcast premiere: "Before Harry I didn't know the word ambition in a negative sense"
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
.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more
lifestyle