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Harry & Meghan manager Liz Garbus defended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Netflix docuseries, alleging that Buckingham Palace tried to "discredit" the show's bombshell content.
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Harry & Meghan director Liz Garbus is taking a basal against the crown.
The documentary filmmaker precocious criticized Buckingham Palace implicit its alleged conduct regarding the Netflix bid which detailed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's rifts with royalty, arsenic told by the couple.
"Buckingham Palace said that we didn't scope retired for remark [on the docuseries] erstwhile we did," Garbus told Vanity Fair. "They did that to discredit us…and by discrediting us, they tin discredit the contented of the show.… We lived done immoderate of those moments that were a small spot similar Alice Through the Looking Glass." Buckingham Palace declined to remark connected Garbus' remarks.
In December, up of the show's release, a Netflix root told E! News that communications teams for King Charles III and Prince William's teams were contacted for comment. However, a elder royal root told NBC News that the palace was not asked for comment.
Moreover, Garbus defended the show, pointing retired what she claimed were treble standards.
"People are precise blessed to work everything astir Harry and Meghan erstwhile it's idiosyncratic other penning astir them," she said. "But erstwhile Harry and Meghan privation to archer their communicative successful their ain words, it abruptly becomes an issue."
Garbus said that nary 1 is being "forced to ticker a documentary," noting that the Duke and Duchess person a close to archer their ain mentation of the narrative. (A period aft the show's premiere, Harry released his bombshell memoir, Spare.)
"There person been much documentaries and books written astir Harry and Meghan than Harry and Meghan person produced themselves," she continued. "So I deliberation it's an absorbing benignant of pearl-clutching that doesn't rather adhd up with the public's appetite for speechmaking worldly astir them from different people."
Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex; Netflix
Harry & Meghan chronicled the pair's emotion communicative since gathering successful 2016, arsenic good arsenic the tensions that led to them stepping down arsenic elder members of the royal household successful 2020. Harry alleged successful the bid that giving up their titles created a "wedge" betwixt him and William, recalling that "it was terrifying to person my member shriek and outcry astatine me" due to the fact that of the decision.
On Meghan's behalf, the Duchess got candid successful the bid about mental wellness struggles, arsenic good arsenic her July 2020 miscarriage. As for wherefore she wanted to stock her communicative publicly, the Suits alum said she wanted others to know "it's good to speech about" these susceptible moments.
"I could marque the prime to ne'er speech astir those things," she shared successful the series, "or I could marque the prime to say, 'With each the atrocious that comes with this, the bully is being ale to assistance different people.' That is the constituent of life: Connection and assemblage similar that."
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