‘Harry & Meghan’ review: In Part I, the couple addresses racism and the press — but so far steer clear of royal family digs
The British royals have entered a new flop era. We’ve been here before.
But while the 1990s were beset by scandals and the death of a princess, even Princess Diana’s sure-footed and damning 1995 Panorama interview about her life in the royal family was just an hour long. The Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, is an even more ambitious project at six times that length. To its credit, it’s hard to compare it to anything — and it’s trying to do everything: Pull back the curtain, right some wrongs and reframe the conversation.
The first three episodes premiered Thursday; the final three will premiere a week later.
“Books have been written about our story from people I don’t know,” Meghan says. “Doesn’t it make more sense to hear our story from us?” Left unspoken: Plenty of others have profited and continue to profit from telling their version of Harry and Meghan’s story. It would be odd to criticize the couple for doing the same.
Charting the early, heady days of their romance, as well as the gradual realization that they were considered an unwelcome presence — by the hyperventilating British press and by the royal family itself — the series at
