The first chapters of the documentary Death Threat, Bribery And Racism series Harry and Meghan reiterate the main arguments that led to their break with the British royal family at the beginning of 2020, highlight the harassment they have suffered from the tabloids, and allude to the history of colonialism and racism as one of its main drivers.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry, the second son of King Charles III, and his wife, the American actress Meghan Markle, star in the documentary series, which has been announced by Netflix as a ” global streaming event “, and is part of the billionaire agreement (the estimated figure is 100 million dollars) that the couple closed with the company in February 2021.
The first chapters of the documentary series Harry and Meghan reiterate the main arguments that led to their break with the British royal family at the beginning of 2020, highlight the harassment they have suffered from the tabloids, and allude to the history of colonialism and racism as one of its main drivers.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry, the second son of King Charles III, and his wife, the American actress Meghan Markle, star in the documentary series, which has been announced by Netflix as a ” global streaming event “, and is part of the billionaire agreement (the estimated figure is 100 million dollars) that the couple closed with the company in February 2021.
t was then that the American actress faced the first attacks from the British tabloids, to such a level that the actress’s neighbors received payments to install cameras to monitor their entrances and exits in Toronto, Canada, the city where Markle recorded the series Suits.
One of the actors who also participated in the program assures that they came to offer him 70,000 dollars to say that he had had sexual relations with Harry’s wife today.
Meghan also says that her requests to the Toronto police to take action in the face of constant harassment by the paparazzi fell on deaf ears.
“I would tell the police, ‘If any other woman in Toronto told you that there are six grown men sleeping in their cars outside her house, following her wherever she goes, wouldn’t you call that harassment?’ and they answered me: ‘we can’t do anything because you’re dating who you’re dating”, says the actress. Police in the Canadian city finally took action when Markle received a death threat, as she recounts in the documentary.
Accusations of racism in British society
Once the engagement was announced, the situation worsened, according to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The docu-series features headlines claiming that Harry’s fiancĂ©e “came straight out of Compton,” alluding to the predominantly black Los Angeles neighborhood despite the fact that Markle never lived there.
Another of the headlines affirms that the second son of King Carlos III was a “gangster” because of his choice of his wife. The documentary alludes to the United Kingdom’s colonial and slave-owning past and includes interviews with two prestigious British analysts of African origin, David Olusoga and Afua Hirsch, who ensure that Meghan’s skin color undoubtedly influenced the treatment she received from the press.
The history of the British empire, which grew rich by enslaving Africans and extracting wealth from colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, remains deeply influential in today’s Britain, according to Olusoga.
Only after World War II did large numbers of Africans and Asians move to the UK, but the changes have not been reflected in the British media, the expert in the documentary notes. “ We have to recognize that this is a white industry… ”, he comments. “So the people who create these headlines, they do so in a newsroom that is almost entirely white, and they can decide if something has crossed the line of being racist.”
