THE Royal Family will need to respond to Harry and Meghan’s upcoming documentary, a leading commentator has said.
Nicholas Owen told GB News: “In the newspapers over the last few days I’ve been struck, particularly, by the way that several correspondents are going through the history books extremely carefully and have found all sorts of instances where pictures were used against other pictures, giving a rather false impression of what was going on.
“We need to get into the meat of this. Trailers are there to hook you and the idea is that you’re going to sit down and go all the way through.
“I would think they’re [Royal Family] going to have to react frankly. We hear that old story, ‘oh the King won’t be watching,’ you know, really? We don’t know about Camilla.”
“Senior staff in the palaces, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace, will be watching it and then they will brief the people there, the members of the royal family and the very, very senior staff and everybody would have a very clear idea of exactly what has been said about what that point is.
“This related to the time when Meghan and Harry were obviously in this country, there was an awful lot going on behind the scenes.
“An awful lot of people seem to have left Meghan’s employee one way and another and a lot of them did have to sign confidentiality agreements and in the background there were allegations that bullying was going on.
“It does make it all very difficult to get anywhere near the truth. The point about this series is that it is said to be [their] own truth and that’s going to be an extremely difficult thing to unpick as we go along.”
Another royal expert meanwhile said the programme will be “undoubtedly explosive'”
Richard Fitzwilliams told GB News: “I think Harry actually put it very well in the quote in the second trailer, when he was referring to the way he saw the Palace manipulate them when they were senior working Royals, and also the way that apparently he claims stories were planted. He said it’s a dirty game.
“Well, I thought it was pretty extraordinary that that first trailer happened to drop by accident, you understand, on the second day of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ trip to Boston. Now we’ve got of course again the circus of two three hour episodes, which is going to be absolutely vast and could be undoubtedly explosive.
“This is a tremendously important point, because in the Times today there is a former member of staff who signed a non-disclosure agreement who claimed that they were bullied.”
Speaking to Mark Longhurst, he said: “They were urging the Palace to make it possible for them to speak out. This was, of course, something that the Palace decided that they would not pursue, but equally it was obviously very damaging that there were these accusations against Meghan.
“Now we’re about to see and this is a real problem. What can the Palace do? I mean, how exactly do you counter it?
“You can’t go point by point, that’s disastrous. On the other hand, you can’t take, for example, the dukedom away without an act of Parliament. How do you actually put out a message that is counter to this, given the fact that there’s a huge build-up?”
