Going back to the op: i doubt it’s worth watching. I’m an American and not terribly invested in the British royal family. I enjoyed “the Crown”, because it was good TV. I tried “Harry and Meghan” because Netflix recommended it, and turned it off after about 10 minutes. It starts in the middle of…something, and i guess if you followed them, maybe you’d have some clue what was going on. I didn’t.
Lots of attractive photos with blurred backgrounds, if you are into that kind of thing.
I feel a little sorry for the two of them. It must suck to grow up in the royal family, and it certainly sucks to lose your mother. And it certainly sucks to have racist in-laws who are “concerned” about the color of their grandchildren. But i don’t care about them nearly enough to watch this show.
Only two of those things are demonstrably true though. The third one is a vague accustation against someone who they know will never answer back.
We know pretty much nothing about the incident in question other than what Harry and Meghan have chosen to imply. As is often the case in something like this, the hearsay becomes the fact.
He had two deployments in Afghanistan. The first one ended in early 2008 when the tabs reported his whereabouts, but he returned a couple of years later in a new role (Apache helicopter pilot); both the Brits and the Taliban announced he was there in Sept 2012, but he served his planned deployment and left Afghanistan in January 2013.
He left the military two years later, in June 2015, having spent some time in a staff officer role in London working on the Invictus Games and other projects working with injured personnel and commemorative projects.
I’m not sure this military career and timeline supports the notion that tabloid reporting in 2008 “destroyed” a career that lasted nearly a decade past that.
I’ve finished the series, and can now summarise so you don’t have to
We are the greatest love story ever told
The press are awful human beings
The Firm told us to suck it up
The family are quite formal
William shouted at me once
To quote a review from the BBC:
There was no real inside gossip, nobody was named as a racist, the accusations were not catastrophic. These were stones thrown at the palace windows - not a brick put through one.
Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace are responding to the series, which is a gauge that the series contained nothing so awful that they needed to challenge it.
It’s a bit of a struggle to understand what the point of it was. Aside from being a cash cow.
Warning for Chela for derailing thread with strange racist post. I’m spinning most of this mess off to the Pit. You do this often enough that a Modnote will not suffice.
Actually, this thread is just a disaster and not about the documentary.
@ZonexandScout, should I move this poor thread to the Pit or leave it closed?