Netflix has dropped the first three episodes of its highly-anticipated documentary examining the lives of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and what led to their dramatic exit from royal life in the UK.
The first half of the docuseries revealed how the couple first met through a friend on Instagram before going on a date, explored their complicated relationship with the national media and examined issues around racism. It also saw Harry open about his relationship with his mother Diana, the Princess of Wales, who died when he was a child.
The series, called Harry & Meghan, explores how Meghan, a well-known American actress before she met Harry, was perceived by both his family and the public when the news broke that the couple were together, and later that they were engaged to be married.
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The engagement announcement prompted a wave of social commentary around the significance of Meghan becoming the first mixed race person to marry into the royal family. Clips featured in the documentary show members of the public expressing their excitement at the news.
The documentary also notes that Meghan had been married before she met Harry. Meghan's ex-husband is American film producer Trevor Engelson, who she married in 2011 around seven years after they began dating.
Engelson produced the 2010 romance film Remember Me, starring Robert Pattinson, which Meghan had a small role in .
The couple had their wedding in Jamaica in September 2011, shortly after Meghan landed the role of Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, but separated after approximately 18 months of marriage and filed for divorce over 'irreconcilable differences'.
It was reported in 2017 that Engelson was writing a comedy series about a man whose ex partner marries a British prince. However, the untitled show is yet to materialise. The 46-year-old, who produced the American crime drama series Snowfall, which came out in 2017, is now married to Tracey Kurland, who he has two children with.
Prince Harry was not the first royal to propose to an American who has previously been married before. In the 1930s, British King Edward VIII got engaged to socialite Wallis Simpson, who had divorced her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second husband.
Their engagement ended up causing a constitutional crisis because they were not allowed to get married in the church due to her former husband still being alive. The controversy eventually resulted in Edward abdicating so he could marry his fiancee once her second divorce had been confirmed.
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