The British crown is more fashionable than ever, and after ‘The Crown’ Netflix continues to take advantage of it with its two most wayward members.
Despite all the media coverage that has talked about it as shocking and revealing etc, Netflix’s ‘Harry & Meghan’ is not filled with many secrets. Viewed over three hours of the miniseries, only halfway through the total, the gains for anyone looking for spicy treats were slim.
As you are a busy person, very busy, you may not want three hours of your busy social and cultural schedule to go into it. However, some of those spicy moments are going to be part of the conversation these days. To solve this problem, here are the eight things that you may need to talk about these days with every good fan of the increasingly popular British monarchy.
Harry and the Nazi uniform
Harry gives away a lot more in these first three episodes than Meghan did, though having been extremely famous and particularly goofy in his late teens and early twenties, that’s perhaps not all that surprising. The notorious party he attended when he was 20 years old was a scandal. “It was probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life,” he says. “I felt so embarrassed afterwards. All I wanted to do was fix it.” That involved speaking with a rabbi in London and meeting Holocaust survivors.
No, the reverence thing is not that bad
We have covered this elsewhere. Markle wasn’t pulling the Queen’s leg, and people who pretend otherwise are being, ahem, a little obtuse.
the owl guy
The couple’s first official engagement after their engagement was in Nottingham, where they were greeted by crowds, including a man whose sheer charisma stuns everyone else. He is an old man, with big glasses and a baseball cap. And an owl on his arm.
Give a series already to that man.
The dog wearing two casts
Around the time they got engaged, Harry and Meghan took a selfie with their dog in which he had two casts on his front legs. There was never an explanation. The poor guy looks like he’s in a scene from ‘Tom & Jerry’.
The bizarre engagement party
If you ever get jealous at the thought of the life of luxury and the endless good times that comes with it, think of the revelry Harry and Meghan had to celebrate their nuptials.
“We had a little engagement party and everyone was dressed in animal onesies,” explained his partner Lucy. “Meg and Harry were wearing matching penguin onesies, because penguins mate for life. And they were so sweet, and we had so much fun.”
Harry has a list of things he likes.
One of the most tantalizing threads this documentary leaves behind is the revelation that Harry has a list of things he was looking for in a partner, which is therefore actually written down somewhere. What’s in it? He points to Meghan: “This is the list.” Smart answer. But seriously: What’s in it?
David Olusoga and Afua Hirsch are very very good
The third episode opens with the theme of the Commonwealth and its roots in the British Empire. With help from Olusoga and Hirsch to chart things out and clarify exactly what that means for the people who lived under British rule, this is the part that feels the most like a real documentary. They tie it all back to the British monarchy, and by making their points concisely, they give the whole series a much-needed narrative push.
Meghan’s poetry is really special
There’s not much in the way and everything related to Meghan’s pre-Harry story here (and given the abuse she usually receives, it makes sense not to delve further), but then we come to the poem she wrote as a teenager about how difficult it was. everything for her after the divorce of her parents.
“Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that bad / But it often makes me sad / I want to live that nuclear life / With a happy father and his loving wife,” she recites, apparently from memory. There is more, but we will draw a veil.