Meghan Markle has made a sensational claim against Australia in the Harry & Meghan Netflix docuseries, blaming the country for her dramatic downfall.
In episode four, Harry and Meghan discuss their ”fairy-tale” wedding and first few months of royal life as they reminisce over their time touring and representing the monarchy at official engagements.
In October 2018, the newlyweds embarked on a 16-day tour of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji where they were greeted by much rapture and scores of adoring fans across almost 80 official engagements.
Despite this however, the docuseries paints a very different light on their visit down under, the couple pinpointing their tour as the real turning point for when things ”went wrong” and the royal family turned against the polarising pair.
”I think Australia was a real turning point,” a friend said. ”Because they were so popular, so popular with the public.
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”And the palace, were incredibly threatened by that.”
Smiling on the outside, dying on the inside. Harry & Meghan have revealed that they HATED every minute of their 2018 Australian tour in their Netflix docuseries.
(IMAGE: Getty)Speaking about their tour, Harry discussed how not long after, the entire royal family were together (including the late Queen Elizabeth) for an official event at Buckingham Palace.
But to the family’s shock, and jealousy, Meghan was on the front cover of British tabloid newspapers the next day, and the royal get together had been given the boot.
”That’s when the hammer dropped,” Harry said.
”I went ‘Oh my God!”’ Meghan recalled of seeing the front page.
”My mum felt the same way,” Harry said. ”It was almost like from the wedding and everything I saw that they were building her up.
”And then there was a shift and they [the royal family] started to tear her down. I’m sorry. At the time, we laughed about it because it’s so ridiculous.
”But an attack can be preposterous, but it’s still an attack and that drip feed of constant attack on someone who is an individual or real person has an impact.”
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Meghan further elaborated on the constant attacks she faced, both from the press, and from within her newfound family, reciting how the family reacted to her joining it, joining the institution as a black, American, divorced actress.
Meghan then recounts her joining the institution with intense clarity: ”There was this moment where our private secretary said to me, [this family] it’s like a fish swimming perfectly,” Meghan said.
”Then there’s this foreign organism. And they were like ‘What is that? What is it doing here? It doesn’t look like us, it doesn’t move like us, get it off us.
”And she just explained that you know, they’ll soon see that it’s stronger, faster, even better with this organism as part of it. It will be hard at the beginning for them to adjust to this new thing. But then it will be amazing.
”And I was really hopeful that that was true.”
Meghan described Australia as the real ”turning point” for how the public, press and royal family treated her.
(IMAGE: Netflix)Unfortunately, for Harry and Meghan it wasn’t. And ultimately, they decided to leave the royal family, dubbed ‘Megxit’ in early 2020.
Harry & Meghan is available to stream on Netflix.
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