‘Harry & Meghan’ trailer: Netflix shares 1st look at dramatic documentary – National

Netflix has shared the primary trailer for its Prince Harry and Meghan Markle documentary, and it’s clear from the temporary video that the world is about to see the couple in a complete new gentle.

The one-minute trailer for Harry & Meghan, set to a gradual and dramatic piano soundtrack, opens with a sequence of behind-the-scenes black-and-white pictures showcasing the highs of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s non-public life — selfies whereas on trip, holding palms whereas Harry cradles a guitar, canoodling in a photograph sales space, a silhouette of a pregnant Markle and a photograph of the couple dancing at their 2018 wedding ceremony reception.

However because the video continues, the music intensifies and so do the visuals; there’s a photograph of Markle crying whereas on the cellphone, one among a frosty-looking Prince William and Kate Middleton sitting separate from Markle through the Sussexes’ closing official engagement in 2020 and a short flash of Harry and Markle wiping their eyes throughout an interview.

“Why did you wish to make this documentary?” director Liz Garbus asks the couple from behind the digicam.

“Nobody sees what’s occurring behind closed doorways,” Harry says. “I needed to do the whole lot I may to guard my household.”

The trailer for the six-part docuseries is the primary time Netflix has publicly acknowledged the challenge, and the streaming service is billing it as an intimate sequence that “explores the clandestine days of their early courtship and the challenges that led to them feeling pressured to step again from their full-time roles within the establishment.

“With commentary from family and friends, most of whom have by no means spoken publicly earlier than about what they witnessed, and historians who focus on the state of the British Commonwealth in the present day and the royal household’s relationship with the press, the sequence does greater than illuminate one couple’s love story, it paints an image of our world and the way we deal with one another.”

A serious-looking Markle appears instantly into the digicam on the finish of the trailer and coolly asks: “When the stakes are this excessive, doesn’t it make extra sense to listen to our story from us?”

The streaming service guarantees “a never-before-seen have a look at one of many most-discussed {couples} in historical past.”

Whereas Netflix doesn’t disclose the official begin date for the docuseries — a be aware on the trailer says it’s “coming quickly” — a number of leisure publications say we may see the sequence stream as quickly as Dec. 8.

Regardless of when the sequence airs, nonetheless, it’s positive to be a busy season for the Duke and Duchess. Royal watchers are additionally anticipating the Jan. 10, 2023 launch of Prince Harry’s official memoir, Spare.

The trailer launch comes at a barely awkward time for the Royal Household. On Wednesday, Prince William’s godmother and royal aide Girl Susan Hussey resigned after making racist feedback to a Black British-born activist at a royal engagement hosted by Queen Consort Camilla.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are additionally going through a blended reception as they arrive in Boston to start their first U.S. tour in years. In accordance with an ITV Information royal correspondent, the Prince and Princess of Wales confronted cheers — but in addition “some boos together with chants of ‘U.S.A, U.S.A’” — at Wednesday’s Boston Celtics sport after they appeared on the display screen at TD Backyard in Boston.

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