“Indecent”, “point of no return”, “attack on the queen’s legacy”, the British press curbs Harry and Meghan on Friday following the broadcast of the first episodes of their documentary, some now calling on them to give up their royal titles .
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“Can you go any lower?” is indignant with the popular daily “The Sun”, which like most of the press devotes its front page and many pages to “Harry & Meghan” the Netflix documentary on Friday, the first three episodes of which were released on Thursday.
“Indecent Sussex”, headlines the “Daily Mail” in its editorial, when “The Mirror” evokes a “point of no return”, three years following the couple’s departure with a crash for California.
In these first three episodes, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex recount their meeting and their love story, and above all target the media and the paparazzi whom they accuse of having wanted to “destroy” Meghan, compared to Diana, the Harry’s late mother.
But it is the more hollow criticisms once morest the royal family and the monarchical institution that make the British press react, in particular the mockery of the protocol or the implied portrait of a racist and intolerant United Kingdom.
“It’s a gross disguise of reality,” writes the Daily Mail.
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The couple “show a childish lack of respect for British culture and its customs”, believes the curator “Daily Telegraph”, who judges that the Palace must “suffer” to see Harry consider the whole country as “a bunch of white supremacists Brexit supporters.
The “Telegraph” also highlights the attacks once morest the Commonwealth contained in the documentary.
Several speakers – but not directly Harry or Meghan – criticize the legacy of the colonialist and slavery past of the British Empire, between several sequences where we see Queen Elizabeth expressing her attachment to the Commonwealth.
“Their behavior is just disrespectful to the memory of the Queen and an institution she served so dutifully,” writes the “Mirror.”
According to “The Times”, relatives of the royal family “expressed their shock” at these attacks.
“What is so infuriating is that the Sussexes continue to rake in millions from their royal connections while spitting on the institution that sustains them. If they hate the monarchy so much why don’t they voluntarily give up their titles?” indignant the “Daily Mail”.
While there has been little political reaction to the documentary, Tory MP Bob Seely has told several media outlets he is preparing legislation to strip the Sussexes of their royal titles.
