There’s been a big question mark over Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix deal since it was announced.
Now, we’re getting closer to to seeing something on the screen as an official trailer for the couple’s documentary has dropped.
In the minute long teaser, which flicks through never-before-seen black-and-white photos of Harry and Meghan, a voice can be heard asking the couple: “Why did you want to make this documentary.”
After a dramatic pause, the Duke of Sussex replied: “No one sees what’s happening behind closed doors. I had to do everything I could to protect my family.”
At this point, Meghan added: “When the stakes were this high, doesn’t it make more sense to hear our story from us?”
Speaking with the ABC, the Australian Women’s Weekly’s editor-at-large Juliet Rieden said the trailer “shows us an awful lot”.
“This is a six part documentary. six parts. That’s a lot,” she said.
“It explores the clandestine days of Harry and Meghan’s early courtship and the challenges that led to them feeling forced to step back from work in the royal family.
“It shows such intimate pictures in there. They really are shots that we’ve never seen before. Some of them are selfies, as you can see. Some of them are from that holiday I think that Meghan and Harry had early on in Botswana when they first fell in love, and some of them are clearly aimed at showing how they have suffered in that media spotlight.
“We thought we weren’t going to hear anything more from Harry and Meghan that we hadn’t heard before. But I think this shows us that we are going to hear something that we haven’t heard before.”
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“It’s going to be very intimate,” she concluded.
Rieden also suggested that Harry and Meghan have “been planning this for a while” by the looks of the professional shots taken inside Nottingham Cottage.
It was reported in 2020 that the contentious couple had signed a $200 million multi-year deal with the streaming giant.
The contract was said to involve documentaries, documentary series’, feature films, scripted shows and children’s programming.
In a statement at the time, the Sussexes said they wish to create content that “informs but also gives hope” and to “share impactful content that unlocks action”.
So far, Harry and Meghan have released Harry’s Rising Phoenix – a documentary about the Paralympic Games – while Meghan’s animated series named *Pearl* was dropped during development due to cost cuts.
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