Prince Harry, Meghan Markle documentary coming to Netflix sooner than expected – National

The highly anticipated Netflix documentary about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is coming to the small screen sooner than expected.

People magazine reports that a documentary about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be released on streaming platforms sometime in December.

Last month’s outrage against Netflix’s fictional series crown Executives at the streaming giant reportedly got a little “rattling” and planned to postpone the documentary series until sometime in the New Year.

However, it looks like the documentary will be released before the end of the year.

crowna fictional drama that follows the sometimes-truthful, sometimes-exaggerated history of the British royal family, whose season five trailers are both inventive and insensitive.

Former British Prime Minister John Major was one of those who took up the issue, saying: The Crowns The depiction of Prince Charles at the time trying to recruit him in a plan to dethrone the Queen was “vicious” and a “barrel lord of nonsense”.

The barrage of criticism forced Netflix to issue a rare defense of the show, reminding people that it was a “fictional dramatization.”

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spokesperson for crown He told the BBC: Series 5 is a fictional dramatization, a behind-the-scenes imagining of what happened during his crucial decade for the royal family, already scrutinized and well-documented by journalists, biographers and historians. increase. “

The docuseries release kicks off a busy season for the Duke and Duchess.Last month it was announced that Harry’s memoir, Spare, will be released on January 10. It has been almost exactly three years since I announced that I would be retiring from my duties as

When Harry’s autobiography was first released in July 2021, the prince said it would be “a first-hand account of my life that is accurate and completely true.” The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been at odds with tabloids that cover their personal lives, and even appeared in court over allegations of invasion of privacy.

The book has been billed as tell-all and, like the docuseries, has been the subject of enormous speculation. It will cover everything up to the present.

Harry’s memoir has already been postponed once and has undergone many changes since it was first published. It is

The book’s late publication led to rumors that Harry was reluctant to say much about the royal family, or that he was revising stories about Queen Elizabeth II. He said he was estranged from his brother William, but his brother and his wife appeared in public together during the mourning after the Queen’s death.

“With its raw, unflinching honesty, spare is a groundbreaking publication full of insight, revelation, self-analysis and hard-earned wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief,” the publisher wrote in a press release.

spare will be released in 16 languages ​​around the world, along with an audiobook narrated by Prince Harry himself.

— Using files from Kathryn Mannie of Global News

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