• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s six-part documentary was made available on Netflix on Thursday.
• In it, the couple complained about what they described as a tone-deaf British monarchy.
• 59% of British respondents thought it was a bad idea for Harry’s documentary to air.

The main question raised by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s Netflix documentary is whether it would permanently harm King Charles and the British monarchy. This is in addition to the drama of quarrelling brothers and Machiavellian royal aides collaborating with a hostile press.

Over the course of six hours of television, Harry and Meghan made a number of complaints against what they described as a tone-deaf institution that was willing to let them suffer if it meant that other, more senior royals would receive greater media coverage.

In one of the final episodes, which were made available on Thursday, Harry stated, “It’s like living through a soap opera where everybody else views you as entertainment.”

When the then-extremely well-liked prince and the stunning, biracial American actress got married in a lavish ceremony in 2018, their relationship was lauded as the model of a contemporary monarchy.

However, as they graphically detailed in their documentary series, that fairytale quickly went sour due to a barrage of unfavourable press reports, some of which Harry blamed on individuals working for Prince William, his older brother and the current heir to the throne.

At their last official outing, Harry remarked of his family’s sentiments for him, “It looked cold, but it also felt cold.” The couple made the decision to leave their royal positions in 2020, relocating to California and achieving financial independence.

According to Catherine Mayer, author of the book biography “Charles: Heart of a King,” the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s departure was bad news for the organisation.

She quoted As saying: “The departure of Meghan and Harry from royal ranks has been far more damaging to the monarchy than the coverage that vilifies them understands or accepts.”

“Her arrival was this source of enormous hope for people of colour, and also just younger people. Her departure is seen as a failure and a betrayal, and that’s immensely damaging to the monarchy because the monarchy needs consensus to survive. It needs support to survive, and it’s losing it.”

Polls, however, indicate that might not be the case. Harry, who once topped similar rankings, and Meghan are currently the least liked royals in Britain, except from his uncle Prince Andrew, who paid a U.S. sex abuse lawsuit in February, according to a YouGov poll conducted last week. The most well-liked royal couple was William and his wife Kate, despite surveys showing that younger Britons have significantly more mixed feelings about the monarchy than older ones.

The royals have experienced a situation like this before. Early in the 1990s, the media watched as Charles’ marriage to his first wife, the late Princess Diana, the mother of Harry, fell apart.

The existence of the 1,000-year-old institution appeared questionable at times after Diana’s outspoken criticism of the royal family and her passing in 1997. Harry and his brother William were prominent, and the show recovered to become more well-liked than ever.

In a less-than-subtle swipe at his brother and father, Harry said that the subsequent success of Meghan was perceived as a problem because it stole the spotlight from those who were “born to do this.”

The campaign would be considered a success if Harry’s judgement that malicious rumours were being spread about him and Meghan is accurate. This charge has been refuted by publications and aides who have spoken publicly.

According to a Savanta study, 59% of British respondents thought it was a bad idea for Harry and Meghan to air their documentary, and 50% said they didn’t believe it would accurately reflect the couple’s experiences.

The Netflix (NFLX.O) documentary, according to royal biographer Claudia Joseph, “personally, I don’t think that it will do lasting damage to the monarchy.”

“I think that people that are royalists will still be royalists and will see this as Meghan and Harry again throwing their toys out of the pram, and the people that are republicans will remain republicans and blame the royal family for the way they’ve treated Harry and Meghan.”

Or, as Tarek Hilal, a 45-year-old Londoner, put it on Thursday: “In the long run, it just won’t make a difference. Storm in a teacup.” .. Reuters.

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