‘Prince Harry realising there’s a hierarchy in the royal family after 30 years’: Trailer for Netflix documentary is bombarded with negative comments
- Latest trailer for Sussexes’ six-hour Netflix series sparked negative comments
- The first three episodes will be available on Thursday and the rest on Dec 15
- Viewers took to YouTube to leave their critical reviews on the latest trailer
- Read more: Royal experts round on Sussexes after their latest Netflix trailer
Netflix’s latest trailer for its docuseries about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been bombarded with negative comments.
The one-minute trailer, which was released yesterday, features the couple discussing their experiences with the royal family since getting together.
It, and the previous trailer released by the streaming giant, has come under fire among some pundits for several reasons, including its use of footage of press photographers from events unrelated to the Sussexes.
And numerous members of the public have now also criticised the preview, taking to YouTube, where the streaming giant shared the clip, to leave negative comments.
Harry & Meghan, which will air on Netflix from December 8, has already sparked controversy among royal watchers
The trailer has spawned a trend, where viewers start their reviews with the phrase ‘I love the part’, before leaving a sarcastic comment.
One wrote: ‘I love the part when after spending 39 years in the royal family, Harry realises there is a hierarchy.’
Another added: ‘I love the part when they are so determined to tell the truth that they are able to time travel to a Harry Potter Premier in 2011 and a 1938 visit by Queen Mary. So courageous of them to stand up to those that call them liars.
‘By the way, Dr Emmett Brown and Marty McFly called and want their DeLorean back.’
Two trailers have been released so far for the docuseries, which features the Duke and Duchess (pictured) of Sussex and tells their story of life inside the Firm
The previews have featured footage of the couple (pictured) as well as footage of unrelated events including a clip of press photographers at a Harry Potter movie premiere
Viewers took to the trailer on YouTube to share their thoughts on the clip, with the vast majority of commentators leaving negative feedback
Meanwhile, a third wrote: ‘I love the part where they say that they want privacy so have to resign from being working royals .. and then get themselves a fly on the wall Netflix “reality “ TV show . So inspiring , so honest , so touching.’
And a fourth added: ‘I love the part when this couple stepped back from Royal Family because of they wanted a private life but now they seem always open up about their life in media .. What an amazing drama.’
However, the couple fared slightly better on Twitter, where some users defended them against critical comments.
Some fans of the Sussexes leapt to the couple’s defence on Twitter, where Netflix also shared the trailer
One wrote: ‘And what have you done for the environment lately? Or how have you been kind and giving lately? Harry and Meghan do these things every day.’
Another added: ‘OMG Diana went through the most, that’s why harry is so protective of his princess.’
And a third wrote: ‘I can’t even imagine how difficult these times must have been. Just a little bit of empathy and compassion with these two goes a very long way I’m sure.’
The new trailer gave the clearest signal yet that the California-based pair will reopen old wounds as they seek to justify why they quit as working royals and left Britain.
It contained footage of Princess Diana, Meghan and the new Princess of Wales all surrounded by photographers, as Harry spoke of ‘the pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution’.
Since its release on YouTube yesterday, the trailer has garnered in excess of 14,000 comments, which seem to be almost entirely negative
He appeared to reference the death of his mother as he added: ‘I was terrified. I didn’t want history to repeat itself.’
But the accuracy of the Netflix series was immediately called into question as it emerged that footage which supposedly showed media harassment of the couple was actually filmed under vastly different circumstances.
It includes a photograph showing Harry and Meghan walking away with their baby son Archie while a cameraman appeared to loom over them from a hidden vantage point.
Journalist Robert Jobson said it was taken when the couple met Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, and that Harry and Meghan had agreed where three accredited photographers and journalists could stand.
Yesterday’s trailer included this image of Meghan and Harry shortly before their lawyer referred to a ‘war against Meghan’ involving the media. Royal correspondent Robert Jobson today claimed it was taken by a photographer who had been given permission to stand there
He said it was a ‘complete travesty’ to use the photograph as an example of intrusion.
Mr Jobson tweeted: ‘This photograph used by @Netflix and Harry and Meghan to suggest intrusion by the press is a complete travesty.
‘It was taken from a accredited pool at Archbishop Tutu’s residence in Cape Town. Only 3 people were in the accredited position. H & M agreed the position. I was there.’
Mr Jobson later said: ‘They say the camera never lies, but it really depends where the image is used and in what context.’
The photograph they’ve used is of a camera lens, overlooking them carrying Archie. That photograph was taken from an accredited pool position and allowed by the Palace.
‘To suggest the newspapers are encroaching on the child is simply a distortion of the truth because nobody else was allowed into that compound. Therefore, you have to question the veracity of their truth in their documentary.’
Echoing the point, ITV royal editor Chris Ship added: ‘Here Robert Jobson makes a valid point. The filming of Archie at Archbishop Tutu’s residence was highly controlled’
Echoing the point, ITV royal editor Chris Ship added: ‘Here Robert Jobson makes a valid point. The filming of Archie at Archbishop Tutu’s residence was highly controlled.
‘And the ITN Productions camera filming the Sussexes’ Africa documentary was there with their permission. It was not a media scrum. They spoke to Tom Bradby inside.’
In a subsequent tweet showing a photo of Harry and Meghan alongside Archbishop Tutu with their baby Archie, Mr Jobson said: ‘This shot by me from the same accredited pool position on my iPhone was taken at Archbishop Tutu’s Cape Town residence.
‘There was no intrusion. I was part of a 3 person UK palace pool. Nobody else was allowed in and we shared the words and photos with the UK Media.’
Ingrid Seward, editor in-chief of Majesty magazine, also said: ‘The inaccurate photographs undermine the validity of what Harry and Meghan are trying to say. It makes them the object of ridicule.
‘If you are going to criticise the monarchy you have to make sure everything you say or do is absolutely correct.’
NETFLIX: Another photograph that was used in the first Harry and Meghan’s Netflix trailer released earlier this week
REALITY: But rather than showing photographers fighting for space to snap Harry and Meghan, the image is actually from a Harry Pottery premiere
Footage of cameramen included in the trailer was actually filmed as former glamour model Katie Price arrived for a drink-driving court appearance, while a photograph showing banks of waiting photographers was taken at a Harry Potter premiere with no royal attendance.
In the trailer, footage shows photographers swarming around a car, as Meghan says: ‘I realised they [the Royal Household] are never gonna protect you.’
The trailer then cuts to an image of Meghan wiping her eyes, apparently in tears. But the car footage was filmed outside the home of Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, as he left to start a prison sentence in 2019.
Journalist and pundit Piers Morgan, whose voice from a news report was used in the trailer, said: ‘These two wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped them round their latte-encrusted tiaras.’
A photo of Diana being followed by photographers that featured in the second trailer – released at around midday yesterday
The former Good Morning Britain host branded Harry ‘a deluded spoiled manipulated brat’ who was ‘waging a relentless vicious public war against his own family’.
The couple’s claims sparked incredulity amongst royal insiders, some of whom were keen to make clear they are only speaking out because of the nature of the allegations from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. One said: ‘The truth is that the Palace took unprecedented steps to support the couple. They were given their own dedicated household, office, press office, home and staff.
‘That is unheard of for a member of the Royal Family in their position [not a direct heir to the throne]. The Queen even sent her most trusted personal staff to support Meghan, not that she wanted any of their advice. Both the duke and duchess always thought they knew best.’
The source pointed out that not only were the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting asked to personally advise Meghan, but Harry’s grandmother persuaded her deputy private secretary, Sam Cohen, to stay on for six months to guide the couple.
Mrs Cohen remained with them for more than a year, even though, she later told friends, the experience was one of the worst of her career due to the couple’s allegedly unreasonable behaviour.
The second trailer for the couple’s Netflix series features an undated clip of Princess Diana facing the world’s press at a royal engagement
Another source adds: ‘Yes, this was a very new situation for the Royal Household but they were excited about Harry and Meghan’s potential and what they could achieve as a couple for the monarchy and the country.
‘They were keen to put in the framework for them to succeed. It’s why Her late Majesty handed them plum jobs within the Commonwealth. Could the Palace have done more? Very possibly. Can it be quite slow and unwieldy sometimes? Definitely.
‘Certainly too slow for the likes of Harry and Meghan, who were very impatient. The Palace’s starting point always is “but what is our precedent?” And of course there was none here. But it is absolutely wrong to suggest that they were unsupported or, worse, that people were briefing against them.
‘It would actually be laughable, if it wasn’t so serious. The Harry and Meghan show was a very different beast from the one they [the Palace] were used to. But they tried, they really did.’
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