Some revelations in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell Netflix series could make King Charles feel uncomfortable. Perhaps the series have only opened the can worms.
First revelation – ‘I am my mother’s son’
‘I think for so many people in the family, especially obviously the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit in the mold as opposed to someone who perhaps you are destined to be with,’ Harry says in episode one.
‘The difference between making decisions with your head, or your heart. ‘My mum made most of her decisions, if not all of them, from her heart.
‘And I am my mother’s son,’ he said, putting emphasis on the ‘am’.
Second revelation – There was always ‘pressure, drama and tears’ in my different family
‘Do I remember a moment when I suddenly realised that my family is different? No, I think it’s just gradual,’ Harry says in episode one.
He spoke about the media interest in his family when they went on holiday, the ‘public pressure and drama’.
Harry said: ‘There was always public pressure with its fair share of drama, stress and also tears – and witnessing those tears.
‘I could always see it on my mum’s face, and I guess those are the moments when I thought OK, what am I? What am I part of?’
Third revelation – Harry saying Diana ‘spoke her truth’ in Panorama interview
Speaking about his late mother, Prince Harry said Princess Diana had a ‘lived experience’ of how she was ‘struggling living that life’ and that she felt ‘compelled to talk about it…especially in that Panorama interview.’
‘I think we all now know that she was deceived into giving the interview – but at the same time she spoke the truth of her experience,’ he said, in episode one.
Fourth revelation – The separation of Diana and Charles – as Harry says she was left ‘by herself’ after divorce
The documentary cuts to an announcement by John Major on December 9, 1992, that ‘with regret’ the Prince and Princess of Wales had decided to separate.
He says the decision had been reached ‘amicably’ and they would both continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children.
The documentary then shows a clip from the famous Panorama interview where Diana says: ‘Everything changed after we separated and life became very difficult for me.’
Harry’s voiceover then says that the moment Diana divorced and left the institution, she was by herself.
Fifth revelation – What’s most important for the two of us is to make sure we don’t repeat the same mistakes that perhaps our parents made’ – Harry
Episode two of Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan showed the duke walking with his son, Archie.
Harry said: ‘When my kids grow up and they look back at this moment and they turn to me and say what did you do in this moment – I want to be able to give them an answer.
‘I think it’s such a responsibility as human beings that if you bring a small person into this world that you should be doing everything you can to make the world a better place for them,’ he said.
‘But equally what’s most important for the two of us is to make sure we don’t repeat the same mistakes that perhaps our parents made.’
‘I think most kids who are the product of divorced parents have a lot in common, no matter what your background is,’ he adds.
‘Being pulled from one place to the other, or maybe your parents are competitive. Or you’re in one place longer than you want to be and in another less than you want to be. There’s all sorts of pieces to that.’
