New trailer for “Harry & Meghan” docuseries teases the “full truth” behind couple’s relationship with the royal family

Netflix’s upcoming docuseries “Harry & Meghan” is proving to be an emotional and nail-biting rollercoaster even earlier than its launch. In a brand new trailer that dropped on Monday, Prince Harry teased that they’re going to reveal “the complete reality” behind what led to the couple’s split from the royal family.

“Nobody is aware of the complete reality,” Prince Harry says within the trailer, which received almost 200,000 views inside only a few hours of its launch on YouTube and 1.7 million on Twitter. “We all know the complete reality.” 

The docuseries is ready to be launched in six episodes, mixed in two “volumes” — the primary coming this Thursday, Dec. 8, and the remainder on Dec. 15. Netflix calls it “an unprecedented and in-depth documentary sequence” that enables the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to share their aspect of the story about their relationship and eventual exit from the royal household. 

Together with interviews with Harry and Meghan themselves, the sequence may also embrace commentary from historians and family and friends, most of whom, in accordance with Netflix, “have by no means spoken publicly earlier than about what they witnessed.” 

The newest trailer comes simply days after the first sneak peek for the sequence dropped. Whereas the primary trailer promised an emotional have a look at the couple’s relationship and experiences, the newest supplies a glimpse into the turmoil and alleged manipulation that occurred behind the scenes. 

“There is a hierarchy of the household. You understand, there’s leaking, however there’s additionally planting of tales,” Prince Harry says within the trailer. “…It is a soiled sport.” 

With footage of his mom, Princess Diana, being hounded by the press, Harry continues to say, “The ache and struggling of girls marrying into this establishment, this feeding frenzy.”

Diana, Princess of Wales, was famously killed in a automotive accident in Paris in 1997 as she was being chased by paparazzi. 

“I used to be terrified,” Harry says within the trailer. “I did not need historical past to repeat itself.” 

That second within the trailer was solely amplified by the phrases of Meghan: “I noticed, ‘they’re by no means gonna shield you.'” 

Pictures of tabloids, paparazzi jostling with cameras, and the couple clearly going by occasions of misery proceed on the display screen as commentators present snippets of research. 

“There was a battle in opposition to Meghan to go well with different folks’s agendas,” one girl says, adopted by a person saying, “It is about hatred. it is about race.” 

Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have been comparatively open about their struggles with the palace. They finally determined to step again as senior family members in 2020 and have labored to turn into financially unbiased. They now dwell in California. 

Final yr, Harry advised “The Late Late Present” host James Corden that life within the U.Okay. as members of the royal household was “toxic.” Months later in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, the couple detailed how they have been handled by members of the royal household as their relationship progressed and when Meghan turned pregnant with their first little one, Archie. 

“We did what we needed to do,” Harry advised Winfrey in regards to the determination to depart the royal household.

Li Cohen

Li Cohen is a social media producer and trending reporter for CBS Information, specializing in social justice points.