Harry and Meghan are telling their story — again. But what comes next?

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In the trailer that was dropped strategically the other day to drum up interest in the new Netflix docuseries on Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, she posed the question: “Doesn’t it make more sense to hear our story from us?”

And in the first three episodes of the series that started streaming early Thursday, Harry was bolstering that same view, saying at one point that the couple, who stepped back from official royal duties in 2020, have “never been allowed to tell our story.”

However, half-way through the series — the final three episodes drop next Thursday — there is a sense that this telling of their story is in many ways an effort to continue to shape a well-trodden ground of grievance against the Royal Family and raise repeated concerns about issues such as racism and media intrusion into their lives. 

“If there hadn’t been the Oprah Winfrey interview, this might have been seen as a more groundbreaking documentary,” Carolyn Harris, a Toronto-based royal author and historian, said in an interview.

But there was that Oprah interview a year and a half ago, which among many other revelations included Meghan’s declaration that an unnamed senior member of the Royal Family had worries about the colour of the skin of their first child before he was born.

While viewers do get a more intimate portrait of their courtship, no similar bombshells landed in the first three episodes (nor was there any expansion on that specific statement to Oprah). 

“I just think it’s more of the same. I mean, this time it’s delivered in quite a sort of feature-like way. There’s no balances at all. It’s very glossy. It’s very gutteral,” British PR expert Mark Borkowski said in an interview.

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