Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s highly-anticipated Netflix documentary had its first showing today and already many of the claims made in the tell-all show have been proven to be completely untrue
Six claims made in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new Netflix documentary have already been proven to be completely untrue.
The first three episodes of the six-part show, described by insiders as “utterly explosive”, began streaming at 8am today and many felt the couple’s children, Archie and Lilibet, stole the show with their appearances.
However, one commentator has said the Royal Family are sure to be breathing a “huge sigh of relief” as the series appears to be more of “a hit piece against the media than against the Royal Family.”
We have listed Harry and Meghan’s 14 key soundbites from the first episode of the show, as the pair promise to tell their “truth”.
And a body language expert Judi James has had her say on a scene from the show; Judi James observes an uncomfortable Prince appears to perform a “cut-off” gesture as Meghan performs an awkward and exaggerated curtsy as she recalls meeting the Queen for the first time.
Meanwhile, Prince William will be “furious” after footage from Princess Diana’s infamous Panorama interview with shamed BBC journalist Martin Bashir was shown in the new Netflix docuseries.
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And click here for our latest report after the release of the long-awaited documentary earlier on Thursday.
22:26Kieren Williams
‘Harry and Meghan want control back over their lives and have a right to fight for it’
The Mirror’s Darren Lewis has his say on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s hotly-anticipated Netflix docuseries.
In it, he writes the Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍’s have seized the oppourunity to speak for themselves and fight for the right to control their own lives.
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22:16Kieren Williams
Harry and Meghan reignite war of the royals and left with ‘no way back’
Meghan and Harry have reignited the war of the royals today and left themselves with ‘no way back’ after fresh attacks on the palace in their new Netflix docuseries.
Prince William was said to be “utterly furious” at their claims of poor treatment. As the privileged millionaire brothers continued their unseemly squabble, ordinary people were worrying about paying their bills in the deepening cost of living crisis.
Prince Harry and Meghan are unlikely to get an invite to Sandringham for this Christmas or any other after their latest swipes at the royals.
The Duke and Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 pictured in their new Netflix series (Image:Netflix )
Many in the family believe there is “no way back” into the fold for the couple after their £100million Netflix series, Harry and Meghan.
Prince William is said to be “utterly furious” with his brother for using clips of their mother’s controversial Panorama interview.
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22:10KEY EVENT
Prince Harry and Meghan’s 14 key soundbites from Netflix show as pair tell their ‘truth’
The world is finally hearing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘truth’ in their long-awaited Netflix docuseries.
The first three episodes released this morning with a series of revelations, but here the Mirror rounds up 14 key soundbites from the show.
Jibe at dad
Harry had “space and freedom to grow” in Lesotho, in southern Africa [on a gap year], returning yearly, for months at times.
A grab from Harry and Meghan’s new royal show (Image:Netflix)
He says he had: “A second family out there – good friends who literally brought me up.”
Love matches
Harry compares Meghan to Kate and other royal women…
“In the family there is a temptation to marry someone who will fit the mould and not someone you are destined to be with,” he says.
Click here for 12 more soundbites from the new royal show.
22:04KEY EVENT
Six Prince Harry and Meghan Markle claims now proven to be completely untrue
Six claims by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have since been proven untrue, as the couple release their explosive Netflix documentary.
The first three episodes of the couple’s highly-anticipated six-part series, Meghan & Harry, landed on streaming giant Netflix on Thursday morning – and it’s already causing quite a stir.
But whilst in the first episode, Harry says: “No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth” half a dozen of the couple’s claims have been proven false.
One such claim was that Meghan didn’t know who ‘Prince Haz’ was before they met.
Harry and Meghan pictured in their new documentary (Image:Netflix)
In first episode of the new docuseries, Meghan recalls the moment a pal informed her she was being eyed up by royalty.
When a mutual friend said that “Prince Haz” was interested in her and “dying to meet”, Meghan says she replied: “Who’s that?”
However, just minutes before in the same episode, Meghan and Harry are seen reacting to an old interview of hers from less than a year before they met.
During the chat, the interviewer asks Meghan to pick between Prince William and Prince Harry, to which she shrugs and pauses before eventually choosing her future husband.
Harry leans forward giggling while saying “sure”, as Meghan then asks the Netflix film maker what year the interview was.
When it’s revealed it was from October 2015, Harry says it was less than a year before they met, to which his apologetic wife replies: “Honey I’m sorry. Of course I choose you.”
Click here to read the five other claims.
21:32Kieren Williams
Meghan Markle should have ‘read the script’ as expert questions her cold Kate Middleton claims
Meghan Markle should have ‘read the script’ a royal expert says as she questions her claims about a cold Kate Middleton.
In the newly released Netflix documentary ‘Harry and Meghan’ the Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 recalls meeting Kate and Prince William for the first time.
Speaking in episode two of the six-part special, she recalled meeting ‘Will and Kate’ for the first time when they came over to dinner and she was wearing ripped jeans and was barefoot’.
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Meghan added: “I was a hugger. I’ve always been a hugger, I didn’t realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits. I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside.”
However, royal expert Ingrid Seward told The Mirror she finds it hard to believe Meghan’s claims about Kate.
Seward added that Meghan should have ‘read the script’ on the Royal Family before joining.
She told The Mirror: “The Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍 said she found the ‘formality’ of being in the royal family ‘surprising.’
“Why would an intelligent woman – as she kept reminding us – not realise that the family of the man she is currently dating are a little more formal than the average Californian?
“They are the royal family with over a thousand years of history, ritual and formality are part of their existence.
“Meghan insinuated Harry’s brother and sister-in-law were surprised by her casual appearance. If Kate was startled, she would have been far too well-mannered to let on.”
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21:03Kieren Williams
Royals ‘breathing huge sigh of relief’ after Netflix release, expert claims
The Royal Family are sure to be breathing a ‘huge sigh of relief’ in the aftermath of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s explosive Netflix release, an expert claimed.The first instalment of the Duke and Duchess’s long awaited documentary was released on the streaming giant this morning, with more episodes set to drop next week.But following the release, Go Up chief executive Edward Coram-James has said that The Firm will be relieved to have seen that the promotional material that was used previously now “appears to have been misleading”.
The reputation and crisis management expert explained that from the trailers, which came out just days ago, it was expected that the royal couple would be blasting the Royals, and not the media.
But throughout the couple seem more concerned with slamming the media and press, rather than overtly critiquing the Royal Family.
