Watch the trailer for the Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan and the incendiary message is clear. There is one image that jumps out like a cold slap among the saccharine black-and-white shots of the joyous couple — that of Prince William and his wife Catherine in Westminster Abbey, looking frostily at the camera. The one-minute film ends with a shot of Meghan in tears, her husband behind her, head thrown back in what looks like despair. Netflix are not advertising that this story has a happy ending.
We don’t know yet what part the Waleses will play in the six-part series, airing next week, but the brothers’ relationship and what has gone wrong between them is clearly at the heart of this documentary. The photograph, taken in 2019 during a Commonwealth service, has been carefully chosen, and has Meghan and Harry sitting behind the senior royals, further emphasising an air of dissonance and separation.
