“Harry & Meghan”, Part 2: Now the sacrificial cookies settle with William

It is quite possible that this brotherly love will be destroyed forever. “So often in my family it’s about how something looks, not how it feels. It looked and felt cold,” Harry says of meeting the royals at Prince Philip’s funeral on March 9, 2020.

For him, father and brother are imbued with the institutional sense of duty and “focused on misinterpreting” events. A misinterpretation that who probably put into the world? The angry British press, of course. When Harry complains to Charles, he says, “My dear boy! Don’t mess with the media! The media will always be the media.”

And William wrote a press statement behind Harry’s back on both of their behalf after the brothers, Charles and the Queen at Sandringham Castle decided it was now “Goodbye Britain” for Harry and Meghan. Everyone always ignores those two. They just stood up for themselves all the time.

After six hours of ‘Harry & Meghan’ it is clear: the real royals are even more self-pitying than those in ‘The Crown’. Harry is the exact copy of his great-uncle, King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne for the love of a divorced American yet wanted to be treated like a king. And he must be his mother Diana’s son – probably the only person before Meghan that Harry has authentically met. On the one hand she needed publicity to trump her husband Charles, on the other hand she was devoured by it.

Harry and Meghan are sure that in their short time in England they were the better, more successful and more popular royals than William and Kate. That they, the “supporting actors”, stole the show from the future king and his wife. The two have no doubt that they are good. The Monarchy could have been “stronger, faster” and much better with her, says Meghan. The couple’s hubris is as grandiose as the ongoing sellout of their ordeal.

Also amazing is how much the two don’t have a plan. They always stumble over something and then are surprised that someone makes fun of it again. They flee to Canada to a villa on Vancouver Island and cannot believe that paparazzi are heading for the island in boats. “It’s an Island!!!” exclaims Harry, who sincerely believed islands were press-safe. Has he learned nothing from his mother? In dialect, someone like him is a glöggli frog.

The Netflix documentary will probably be another stumbling block as well, the malice unleashed on the two is unanimous and global, but hey they’re young and need the money when they’ve been doing nothing but bird watching and playing with dogs, chickens and children. Once Harry’s cousin Eugenie comes over and everyone has a blast, once Beyoncé texts, and Serena Williams thinks it’s amazing how much Meghan has accomplished. Is she?

You feel sorry for the details. When Meghan miscarries out of sheer stress. When the tabloid racism boils over, or the urge to pit good Kate against bad Meghan over and over again. When her father sells a letter from her to the Daily Mail. As it turns out, 12 of the 83 highly effective anti-Meghan Twitter accounts are run by her half-sister Samantha.

After all, a bright spot in the documentary is her marriage, as she drank a mimosa beforehand and ate a croissant and drove to church very happy, and Charles was also “exceedingly charming”, she told him that in the course of her love she “lost my father” to Harry and he understood this and was the best surrogate father. For a short period of time.