- Sean Coughlin
- Correspondent for royal affairs
“They were willing to lie to protect my brother, but they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us,” Prince Harry said in a promotional advertisement for the “Harry and Meghan” series on the Netflix platform.
Prior to the airing of the second half of the series, promotional advertisements showed the couple recounting the reasons for their abandonment of royal duties.
“I wasn’t thrown to the wolves, I was fed to them,” Meghan said, while Harry blamed “the manipulation of minds at an institutional level.”
But there is still a lot of confusion, and controversy, on the most interesting point, namely the reference to the lie to protect Prince William.
Prince Harry’s comment states “they were prepared to lie to protect my brother” but does not say who he was referring to, or what Prince William was protected from.
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In a copy of the promotion on the back of Buckingham Palace it says ‘they were willing to lie to protect my brother’
But another version of the blurb seems to have tried to explain, with a strip of text on the screen with different words: “British media have been willing to lie to protect my brother.”
However, the accompanying sound has not changed. However, it appears the context at large will be within the attack on the media, rather than a specific person in the royal family.
And Netflix was asked to clarify the difference between the two versions of the promotional promotion, at that crucial moment.
The tone of the latest version of the promotion suggests that there will be more allegations, more than the first half, of the documentary series, which has revealed few crises and fewer than expected.
The promotion cites claims that the couple were “mind machines” and left feeling insecure.
“You said we wanted out of here,” Harry added, in a promotional pre-air of the last three episodes on Thursday.
And the prince, who now lives with his wife in California, added: “I wonder, what would have happened to us if we hadn’t left at the time.”
Meghan has spoken out about her safety concerns. There’s a clip that shows Prince Harry, saying they were on a “freedom trip,” which likely means a departure trip away from the pressures they’ve felt in the UK.
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The couple started a new life in California
The promotion also shows Christopher Pozzi, director of a research firm on social media misuse and misinformation, saying, “They were hiring people to spread rumors.”
There are also clips in the series, of Harry and Megan, enjoying their new life in California, and Harry saying, “To get to part two, you have to finish part one first.”
Buckingham Palace has not yet commented on the series, nor has it commented on its publicity stunt.
After waiting and anticipating, the first three episodes of the series have elicited different responses on both sides of the Atlantic and questions about the amount of new information it has revealed.
Viewership figures in Britain indicate that 2.4 million people watched the first episode, while 1.5 million watched the second episode, during the first day of its broadcast, and 800,000 people watched the third episode.
