The second collection of episodes of "Harry and Meghan," the Netflix docuseries, has landed. It dives deep into mental health and royal drama.
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-Last three episodes of the six episode series dropped today
-The first set of episodes earned 81.5 million viewing hours, the most of any documentary in a premiere week, Netflix said on Tuesday. More than 28 million households watched at least part of the first collection of episodes in the first four days of their release, the streaming platform added
-Episode four picks up at Harry and Meghan’s wedding in May 2018 and quickly tackles a number of matters, including Meghan’s connection with Queen Elizabeth II, the barrage of negative headlines she faced and her mental health challenges.
-Meghan discusses suicidal thoughts that she blamed, in part, on negative headlines shortly after they wed and during much of her first pregnancy.
“All of this will stop if I’m not here, and that was the scariest thing about it — it was such clear thinking,” Meghan said, recalling her mind-set at the time.
-The fifth episode begins with the couple’s continued war with the news media and efforts to dodge paparazzi while spending Christmas 2019 away from the royal family.
-The couple recounts a family meeting to discuss their decision to reduce their roles as working members of the royal family. Harry said he was presented with several options but quickly realized no agreement would be reached.
-Harry and Meghan made plans to discuss their problems with the Queen directly in 2020, but were blocked by palace staff from doing so:
“I remember looking at H and going, my gosh, this is when a family and family business are in direct conflict because they’re blocking you from seeing the queen, but really what they’re doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother,” Meghan said.
-The headlines about Meghan appeared to be incessant, pushing the couple to a breaking point.
“I realized that I wasn’t just being thrown to the wolves,” Meghan said. “I was being fed to the wolves.”“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in,” Harry said.
Harry described that meeting as hard and said it ended without a solid plan of action.
“The saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother so that he’s now on the institution side,” Harry said, acknowledging Prince William’s perspective.
-Talk about how they left the royal family in 2020:
“How predictable that the woman is to be blamed for the decision of a couple,” Harry said. “In fact it was my decision.”-They described plans to relocate to New Zealand or South Africa before they ultimately settled on Canada. They later moved to California.
-They blame the Daily Mail for Meghan's miscarriage:
“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what The Mail did,” Harry said. “I watched the whole thing.”
“Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was created, caused by that? Course we don’t,” he said, while noting that the legal battle led to stress and loss of sleep.
“I can say, from what I saw, that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her,” he said.-They also talk about how Tyler Perry saved them (again) and Meghan's family drama we already know about
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