‘Horrible, hurtful’: Meghan Markle’s estranged half-siblings slam Netflix present

In the wake of the episodes’ launch on Thursday, Meghan Markle’s estranged half-siblings criticised the primary three episodes of Netflix docuseries, terming the content material as ‘horrible and hurtful’.

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By India Today Web Desk: Netflix launched the primary three episodes of the much-awaited documentary collection on Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan Markle on Thursday, which sheds gentle on the couple’s love story and the issues they confronted as a part of the royal household.

The six-part collection, titled Harry and Meghan, options the love story of the couple and their lives after stepping down from their duties as royal members of the British monarchy.

In the wake of the episodes’ launch on Thursday, Meghan Markle’s estranged half-siblings criticised the primary three episodes of the Netflix docuseries, terming the content material as ‘horrible and hurtful’, The New York Times reported. Thomas Markle Jr. known as the present ‘slightly bit disturbing.’

Prince Harry blamed himself for the falling out between his spouse, Meghan Markle, and her father, Thomas Markle, which was described by Thomas Markle Jr. as ‘horrible’.

“She had a father before this, and now she doesn’t have a father,” Harry says within the couple’s Netflix docuseries, ‘Harry & Meghan. “And I shouldered that. If Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad,” he said.

“The documentary is so far off on so many different levels,” Markle Jr stated, the report said.

“Saying that she doesn’t have a family and she doesn’t have a father, and Harry saying that she has no father now, that’s just ridiculous,” he added.

In the first three episodes, the couple describe ongoing harassment from the news media and wanting to continue Princess Diana’s legacy.

According to the report, the content of the series compelled Markle Jr. to reach out to his own production team, which is now working on a counter-narrative.

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A COUNTER NARRATIVE IN MAKING

Markle Jr. said the content of “Harry and Meghan” prompted him to succeed in out to his personal manufacturing workforce, which is at the moment engaged on a counter-narrative.

“We’ve always been here. The documentary is way off. That’s what’s actually prompted me to work with my own production team and coming out in like 2023 our side of a documentary that’s going to shed a lot of light that needs to be shed … it’s going to tell a whole different story,” he was quoted by the NYT as saying.

Markle’s half-sister Samantha additionally slammed the collection and advised GB News that she hopes Markle Sr., 78, doesn’t watch it.

“He’s been through so much — two heart attacks and a stroke — and she enabled this, watched it, did nothing about it, and for Harry to say something like that is egregious,” she stated.

She additionally denied Meghan’s claims that she was suggested to not invite Samantha’s estranged daughter, Ashleigh Hale, to her wedding ceremony due to the strained ties throughout the household.

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UK MEDIA HITS BACK AT PRINCE HARRY

Britain’s media on Friday hit again on the estranged prince and his spouse, accusing them of mendacity and insulting Queen Elizabeth II, reported AFP. The headline of fashionable tabloid the Sun learn: ‘Harry the Nasty, which added the couple had “trashed the Queen’s legacy”.

“How low can you go?” requested the tabloid. The Daily Mail, the right-wing newspaper that has clashed most frequently with the couple, led with the headline “palace anger at ‘assault on the Queen’s legacy.

The second a part of the documentary, episodes 4 to 6, will start streaming on December 15. The collection options a number of unseen photographs of the couple and their household from their lives in Canada and the US. The couple married in May 2018 and have two children – Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.

(With company inputs)

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Dec 11, 2022