That Netflix Documentary

Just a quick aside before the meat; the pallet Christmas tree I made has been tastefully decorated by Hay, and very nice it looks too.

Back to the subject. Contrary to popular belief, Harry and Meghan have not gone on the warpath against the Royal Family in their documentary, but the gutter press - unless, that is, the next instalment changes tack.

Yes, the Royal Family doesn't come out looking particularly good, but that's merely self-imposed, collateral damage caused by The Firm's insistence on members sucking it up and not reacting to a wayward press.

It's rather strange that the vitriol aimed at them is primarily emanating from commentators who haven't even watched the documentary, preferring instead to take their analyses from the skewed interpretations of the very publications that Harry is taking aim at, which is perverse, to say the least. It's also ironic that Harrys accusations are being borne out by the headlines that came out from those very publications the day after the first 3 programmes were aired. They've damned themselves by their own actions.

The gutter press was all lovey-dovey with Harry and Meghan when they first got whiff of them seeing each other, but the minute an image surfaced of Meghan's mum, the love turned to hate as they realised Meghan was of mixed race and not white/Hispanic, as they'd all assumed. This initiated the Daily Mail headline 'Straight Outta (nearly) Compton' attack.

As Harry explained in the documentary (yes, we watched it), he (quite naturally) wants to protect his wife and children from the scurrilous attacks made on Meghan, just as any normal husband would. More importantly, he wants to be able to say to his kids, when they grow up, that he did.

Much is being made of the curtsey clip and the attackers believing it was a slight on Queen Elizabeth, when nothing could be further from the truth, that is if you watched the clip in context. She was mocking herself, in a self-depreciating manner, for not understanding the protocol when meeting the Queen, bowing and scraping being totally alien to an American raised in a classless system and it being a family affair and not a state occasion. She was totally unaware that the formality carried over into private life.