Netflix versus reality: Latest Sussexes trailer describing ‘war against Meghan’ as a ‘dirty game’…uses footage of press filming Trump’s ex-lawyer Michael Cohen and Katie Price outside Crawley Magistrates’ Court
- First trailer showed footage from a Harry Potter premiere and a photo of when Harry was dating Chelsy Davy
- It’s now emerged clips from the second Netflix teaser – which was released today – are also not as they seem
- One brief clip of Michael Cohen in New York cuts to video of duchess dabbing her eyes, seemingly in tears
- REPORT: Sources say senior family members are planning a ‘business as usual approach’ to the documentary
A new trailer for Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary uses footage of the press filming Donald Trump’s shamed former lawyer Michael Cohen in New York and Katie Price outside a court in Crawley.
Just days after an image in the first teaser was revealed to be a scrum of photographers at a Harry Potter premier and another dated from when Harry was dating Chelsy Davy, it’s now emerged that parts of the second advert also aren’t as they seem.
A brief clip from the latest trailer shows a group of photographers rushing towards a concrete building which is clearly identifiable as Crawley Magistrates Court – where former glamour model Ms Price appeared last December to be sentenced for drink driving. ‘I was terrified – I didn’t want history to repeat itself,’ Harry says as the footage is played.
Another piece of video shows photographers huddling around a car as Meghan says – referring to the royal household – ‘I realised they are never going to protect you’. It then cuts to an image of Meghan dabbing her eyes, seemingly in tears.
But rather than showing the Sussexes being hounded, the footage is in fact of Mr Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, being released from prison in 2020 after serving time for financial crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. MailOnline has contacted Netflix for comment.
NETFLIX: A brief clip from the latest trailer shows a group of photographers rushing towards a concrete building as Harry says ‘I was terrified, I didn’t want history to repeat itself’
REALITY: The footage in fact shows former glamour model Katie Price arriving at Crawley magistrates court to be sentenced for drink driving
By Lydia Hawken for MailOnline
Prince Harry has blasted the ‘pain and suffering of women marrying into the institution’ in the latest trailer for his new Netflix series.
This afternoon, the streaming platform has released a second trailer for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new series and confirmed the first episodes of the television special will debut on Thursday.
In a clip from the series, the father-of-two discusses how life within the firm can be a ‘dirty game’.
As Prince Harry muses on his experience as a senior working royal, the trailer jumps to an undated clip of Princess Diana at a royal engagement where she faces the world’s press.
The new Netlix trailer used video footage of the Princess of Wales (pictured in 2007) outside her home in Chelsea before marrying into the Royal Family
As the video flashes up on screen, Harry comments: ‘The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy. No one knows the full truth. We know the full truth.’
Producers then used a split-second clip of the Princess of Wales outside her flat in Chelsea in 2007.
The future royal – who was working as an accessories buyer at fashion brand Jigsaw at the time – is seen walking along the street outside her home while being surrounded by photographers.
The then 25-year-old had been in a relationship with Prince William for seven years at the time the video footage was taken.
The incendiary Netflix series is ‘an amazing act of revenge’ that will ‘widen the rift’ with Prince William and weaken the very institution he will inherit when he becomes King, royal experts told MailOnline today after the US streaming giant released a second trailer for the Sussexes’ documentary.
In a new-one minute preview, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lash out at the ‘hierarchy of the family’, claim insiders ‘leaked and planted’ stories about them, describe royal life as a ‘dirty game’, then – after footage of Princess Diana and Kate being hounded by photographers – talk about ‘the pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution’.
The teaser will no doubt horrify courtiers bracing for further allegations that are likely to widen the rift between the Sussexes and the Waleses.
Speaking to MailOnline, royal author Richard Fitzwilliams speculated that the effects of the Netflix docuseries will be felt for years to come. ‘This is a full frontal, extremely destructive attack on the Royal Family – the institution as well as members of those households,’ he said.
He said: ‘I think this will widen the rift between the brothers. There is no doubt that this Netflix series is an amazing act of revenge designed to weaken the very institution that William will inherit as future King. Of course everyone will be asking how King Charles will react to this in the short-term, but the effects of this will be felt in years to come. That’s the whole point.
‘This is a full frontal, extremely destructive attack on the Royal Family – the institution as well as individual households and members of those households. This series I suspect will greatly weaken the royals in the eyes of the world, especially among young people.’
The late Queen’s former press secretary Dickie Arbiter called the series ‘one long whinge’, adding: ‘I think that William and Kate will watch this trailer and think to themselves, ”oh God, here we go again”.
‘This is just one long whinge, and for what? Harry says he’s doing this to protect his family – protect them from what? Meghan says if we only knew what happened behind closed doors – why should we? What exactly is it that they have to say which we haven’t heard before?’.
During the teaser, a friend is heard claiming that the couple’s experience has been ‘about hatred, about race’ as a strikingly intimate and previously unseen clip flashes up of an exasperated Harry holding a hand to his face as Meghan passes behind him while heavily pregnant with their daughter, Lili.
After a series of clips of photographers and newspapers being printed, Meghan says, ‘I realised, they’re never going to protect you’ before she is seen once again crying. Harry then adds, ‘I was terrified, I didn’t want history to repeat itself.’
Today the streaming giant confirmed volume one will launch on December 8 – exactly three months after the death of Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II – while the second volume will be released on December 15 – clashing with the Princess of Wales’ carol service.
The teaser opens with a scene of Harry and Meghan in a car, seemingly in America, as the duke says: ‘It’s really hard to look back on it now and go ”what on earth happened?”
As videos play of the couple announcing their engagement and their wedding in 2018, a news clip voiceover by Piers Morgan says: ‘She’s becoming a royal rock star’.
NETFLIX: Another piece of footage shows a scrum of photographers forming around a car as Meghan says – referring to the royal household – ‘I realised they are never going to protect you’. It then cuts to an image of Meghan in tears
REALITY: But rather than showing the Sussexes being hounded, the footage is in fact of Mr Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, being released from prison in 2020 after serving time for financial crimes and lying to Congress
NETFLIX: This photo of a casually dressed Prince Harry featured in an image montage in the bombshell Netflix trailer last week
REALITY: The picture was actually taken in September 2007 when Prince Harry met his then-girlfriend Chelsy Davey at Heathrow Airport. Netflix cropped out Chelsey and appear to have added a filter to emphasise the flash photography
NETFLIX: Another photograph that was used in the first Harry and Meghan’s Netflix trailer released earlier this week
REALITY: But rather than showing photographers fighting for space to snap Harry and Meghan, the image is actually from a Harry Pottery premiere
Another scene plays of the Sussexes on a royal walkabout as a member of the public shouts ‘Meghan, we love you!’
It cuts to Meghan saying ‘and then’ before snapping her fingers with Harry adding: ‘Everything changed’.
A photo of the Royal Family at the Trooping the Colour in 2019 is shown – including William, Catherine, Charles and Camilla – while Harry narrates: ‘There’s a hierarchy of the family, you know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories. It’s a dirty game.’
The couple’s lawyer, Jenny Afia, tells the camera: ‘There was a war against Meghan to support other people’s agendas’ before Christopher Bouzy, a tech entrepreneur and a longtime supporter of the couple, says, ‘it’s about hatred, it’s about race’.
Clips of paparazzi photographing the couple are then paralleled alongside old footage of Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, being followed by the media.
The duchess then says: ‘I realised they’re never going to protect you’ and Harry adds, ‘I was terrified, I didn’t want history to repeat itself.’
Finally, Harry appears in a selfie video as he says, ‘No one knows the full truth – we know the full truth’ and the trailer ends.
The docuseries will debut on Thursday, Netflix confirmed today.
In the latest Sussex updates –
- It emerged that a photo in Harry and Meghan’s first Netflix trailer intended to illustrate paparazzi hounding them actually showed invited photographers taking pictures at a Harry Potter film premiere in 2011… five years before the couple had even met;
- Sources said senior family members were planning a ‘business as usual approach’ amid turmoil over the documentary;
- A royal author said the Sussexes ‘can’t carry on complaining about the past’ after their Netflix show airs – but Prince and Princess of Wales are ‘wearily resigned’ to it;
- A photo of Prince Harry covering his face from paparazzi in bombshell Netflix trailer is of Duke with his ex Chelsy Davy – but producers have cropped her out;
During today’s teaser, a friend is heard claiming that the couple’s experience has been ‘about hatred, about race’ as a strikingly intimate and previously unseen clip flashes up of an exasperated Harry, 38, holding a hand to his face as Meghan passes behind him while heavily pregnant with their daughter, Lili
Meghan is seen looking worried as the Sussexes’ lawyer, Jenny Afia, tells the camera: ‘There was a war against Meghan to support other people’s agendas’
The teaser opens with a scene of Harry and Meghan in a car, seemingly in America, as the duke says: ‘It’s really hard to look back on it now and go ”what on earth happened?”
As videos play of the couple announcing their engagement and their wedding in 2018, a news clip voiceover by Piers Morgan says: ‘She’s becoming a royal rock star’
Another scene plays of the Sussexes on a royal walkabout as a member of the public shouts ‘Meghan, we love you!’
A news presenter describes ‘the sounds of hearts breaking around the world’, as the couple announced their engagement
It cuts to Meghan saying ‘and then’ before snapping her fingers with Harry adding: ‘Everything changed’
A photo of the Royal Family at the Trooping the Colour in 2019 is shown – including William, Catherine, Charles and Camilla – while Harry narrates: ‘There’s a hierarchy of the family, you know, there’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories. It’s a dirty game’
Jenny Afia, a lawyer who has represented the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, appears in today’s trailer – the second that has been released so far
Meanwhile Christopher Bouzy, a tech entrepreneur and a longtime supporter of the couple, says, ‘it’s about hatred, it’s about race’
Prince Harry describes life in the Royal Family as a ‘dirty game’ in his new Netflix trailer
The second trailer for the couple’s Netflix series features an undated clip of Princess Diana facing the world’s press at a royal engagement
The trailer shows the couple sitting in the back of a car while Meghan’s voiceover says: ‘I realised, ‘they’re never gonna protect you.”
A scene appears of Meghan and Harry in a car as they turn round to see a car following them – a likely reference to paparazzi
Meghan is seen wiping her eyes as a worried Harry watches on. A similar scene also appeared in the first teaser
Tech CEO who made cruel comments about the Prince and Princess of Wales ageing appears in new explosive trailer for Harry & Meghan
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have enlisted a tech guru who once made cruel comments about the Prince and Princess of Wales’s appearance to speak in Harry & Meghan, a new trailer has revealed.
A one-minute long clip released by Netflix this afternoon features Christopher Bouzy, the founder of US tech company Bot Sentinel, who claimed: ‘It’s about hatred. It’s about race.’
A one-minute long clip released by Netflix this afternoon features Christopher Bouzy, the founder of US tech company Bot Sentinel, who claimed: ‘It’s about hatred. It’s about race’
Bouzy, who often comments about the rift between the Duke and Duchess and the Palace on Twitter, previously tweeted that he thought Kate and William, both 40, were ageing in ‘banana years’.
The second explosive trailer for the £88 million Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess’s story after they stepped down as senior members of the Royal Family in 2020 reveals more bombshell claims from the couple, including Harry claiming there is a ‘hierarchy’ within the Royal Family.
Last week, Netflix released the first official teaser which featured never before seen private photographs of the couple including happy snapshots of the Sussexes kissing while Meghan sits on a kitchen island, as newlyweds dancing with joy at their evening wedding do, cuddling in a photobooth and Meghan cradling her bump while pregnant.
While another shows the duchess pictured with her hand over her face as she sits cross legged on a chair holding a phone but it is not clear in this image whether she is crying.
Billed as a Netflix Global Event, the streaming giant has promised an ‘unprecedented and in-depth documentary series’ over six episodes where Harry and Meghan ‘share the other side of their high-profile love story’.
It added it was a ‘never-before-seen look at one of the most-discussed couples in history’.
Netflix said the show ‘explores the clandestine days of their early courtship and the challenges that led to them feeling forced to step back from their full-time roles in the institution’.
It features commentary from friends and family, most of whom have never spoken publicly before about what they witnessed according to Netflix, and historians who discuss the state of the British Commonwealth today and the royal family’s relationship with the press.
It adds: ‘The series does more than illuminate one couple’s love story, it paints a picture of our world and how we treat each other.’
The director is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus.
Harry and Meghan signed lucrative deals – thought to be worth well over £100 million – with Netflix and Spotify after quitting the monarchy and moving to the US.
The Royal Family have tried to put a brave face in recent days by insisting they would not be ‘blown off course’ by the documentary.
Contrary to claims that there are behind-the-scenes ‘crisis talks’ and plans to ‘hit back’ at yet another barrage of claims and accusations, senior royals plan a very much ‘business as usual approach’.
‘We are not going to be blown off course by squalls from across the Atlantic,’ a royal source told the Daily Mail witheringly.
The Mail on Sunday reported yesterday how the King and Queen Consort are ‘wearied’ by the constant attacks from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Buckingham Palace sources said that there was ‘mounting frustration and exhaustion’ at the barrage of complaints that Harry and Meghan relentlessly and publicly make about their alleged treatment by members of the Royal Family.
The late Queen famously made clear that ‘recollections may vary’ over many of the couple’s claims – and that view has not changed.
Throughout the royal households there is a sense of ‘here we go again’ over the series.
A photo of Diana being followed by photographers that featured in the second trailer – released at around midday
The footage of Diana is spliced with more recent scenes. It is not clear where or when this photo was taken
The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution, this feeding frenzy,’ the duke narrates
Finally, Harry appears in a selfie video as he says, ‘No one knows the full truth – we know the full truth’ and the trailer ends
There is hope among the family that the ‘Sussex squall’ will blow itself out by the time the series ends and Harry’s upcoming memoir is published in January
But there is hope among the family that the ‘Sussex squall’ will blow itself out by the time the series ends and Harry’s upcoming memoir is published in January.
‘It’s likely to be a difficult few weeks but really after that what on earth more can they have to say?’ another insider asked.
‘It’s all going to start to become very ‘end of the pier’ show if they are not careful, hawking around the same complaints on talk shows and documentaries.
‘Surely a time will come when even they realise they have got to get on with their lives? The rest of the family certainly want to.’
Indeed the King and the Queen Consort have a busy week ahead with several significant and long-planned engagements. Tomorrow the monarch is in Luton meeting community leaders and voluntary organisations who promote inter-faith harmony, something he has been promoting for 50-plus years.
At Luton Town Hall, he will be reunited with Festus Akinbusoye, Bedfordshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, who was previously supported by his Prince’s Trust.
His Majesty will also visit the newly built Sikh Guru Nanak Gurdwara, speaking to volunteers and learning about their programmes for the community.
The Mail on Sunday reported yesterday how the King (pictured today) and Queen Consort are ‘wearied’ by the constant attacks from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
The King and the Queen Consort (pictured) have a busy week ahead with several significant and long-planned engagements
On Wednesday, the Queen Consort will invite seriously and terminally ill children from Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity to decorate the Clarence House Christmas tree.
She holds the magical event each year, personally serving up sausages and mash for the youngsters and this year has arranged a surprise visit from Father Christmas and his reindeer. ‘Their Majesties are getting on with what’s important,’ a source added.
Royal sources told The Mail on Sunday that Charles and Camilla were ‘not worried but wearied’ by the continued outbursts from the Duke and Duchess.
Since quitting as working royals and moving to California, they have criticised the Royal Family in interviews, including a high-profile show with Oprah Winfrey, and recorded the Netflix series.
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