A documentary "The Princes and The Press" launched by the British BBC recently exposed some unsightly media wars between William and Prince Harry, which involved a very sensitive accusation: William and Harry instructed their men to release black material to the media and smear each other, and the content of the program was clearly biased in favor of Harry and Meghan's side, so that the British royal family's rare three houses (Queen, Charles, William) issued a statement. Allegations that the documentary were exaggerated and baseless claims, and even the 95-year-old Queen of England was frightened!
This is an extremely sensitive documentary "The Prince and the Media" broadcast in two episodes, but the first episode alone is enough to make the audience stunned. The content not only tells the story of Prince William and Prince Harry, a pair of close siblings, since Harry and american actress Meghan married, began to spread the process of discord and breakup, but also Harry and Meghan's separation from the British royal family.
But the strange thing is that this documentary claims to discuss the changes in the relationship between the royal family and the media in the past 10 years, but only invites Harry and Meghan's friends and lawyers to come out and say things, not only does not ask the Queen and William's side, but even the positive film does not let the British royal family watch in advance, it is clear that it is nakedly biased in favor of Harry and his wife, and at the end of the first episode, everyone stands on Harry's side, saying that the British media owes him an apology.
Queen Eliza II, Prince Charles and Prince William issued a joint statement to this end: "There is so much unconfirmed news that has been taken as evidence, and it is very disappointing to see the BBC and other media credulously believe these one-sided statements." Members of the royal family then said they would no longer work with the BBC.
The first episode of "The Prince and the Media" is divided into five units: William and Harry, Phone Hacking Scandal, Megan, Megan vs. Kate, and Dark Material. Fast forward to the years after Queen Elizabeth II's diamond wedding celebration with her husband, Prince Philip (2007), when Prince William and Prince Harry became adults, and the positive reaction of the media to a new generation of royals began.
However, these two princes have a completely different counterpart to the media because of the accident of their mother Princess Diana, the brother has a good relationship with various media for his future, hoping to get positive reports, but the younger brother faces the media in a different way, Harry has hated the media from his bones since childhood, and Diana's death has pushed his confrontation with the media to the peak.
However, at least the media can get some information from William's side, originally the two sides took what they needed, but when William and Kate got married, the media began to gradually become dissatisfied with William, mainly because of Princess Kate! The royal editor of ITV News said: "For a while, Kate often covered her face with her hair, and all kinds of small movements caused the photographer to not take good pictures, which made them very unhappy, so everyone made a decision: let's find their black material together, bite back together!" 」
So during that time, the negative news of Kate and William gradually became more and more, the good contact between the two sides was gone, and the British media could not get further information about the royal family, so they started a scandal of telephone eavesdropping on the royal family.
In 2010, The News of the World eavesdropped on William, Kate, and Harry's cell phones, and all of their communications were intercepted, and a private investigator involved in the hacking of their phones said in the first public interview in the documentary: "At that time, the British public's interest in Harry was greater than william and queen, so where he went, what he did, who he dated, as long as there was all kinds of Harry's gossip, the newspaper could sell that day." 」
Even Harry's girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, who was dating in 2004, had her phone monitored by hackers, but the private investigator apologized to Harry in the documentary: "We basically deprived Harry of his normal teenage years." Later, the investigation found that the News of the World had hired hackers to hack Kate's mobile phone 155 times, William's mobile phone 35 times, and Harry's mobile phone 9 times.
Harry was very angry and said that he would protect the privacy of his future girlfriend and wife in front of the media at all costs, until a person appeared later, that is, Megan! Even greater Harry's estrangement from the media.
Because of Meghan's appearance, the british media were excited, like a vulture found a new piece of meat, she is a mixed-race, American, civilian, there is too much news to report, every move has attracted much attention, but at that time the media's attitude towards Megan was divided, some media were all kinds of praise and welcome, thinking that Megan brought fresh blood to the royal family, but there are also some media, began to crye, hidden xenophobia and misogyny, such as using "her exotic DNA" to describe part of her black blood.
Soon, Harry publicly counterattacked, using the royal family's official statement to condemn the media for smearing Meghan, and such a statement was the first time in the British royal family, which has always focused on media relations. In the face of the media, William chose to be patient, while Harry chose to change, and they took a completely different path.
What's worse, Harry's wave of counterattack statements also robbed Prince Charles of the front, because he was visiting Oman at the time, originally, the media had been scheduled, Charles's sword dance in Oman news will be on the front page of the day, but as soon as Harry's explosive statement was issued, all the media could only change the page, which made Charles's personnel quite unhappy, so gradually, the royal family was divided into William and Harry.
Although Harry's attitude towards the media is cold, but because of his distinct personality, his popularity in the folk is getting higher and higher, and in 2017, he surpassed William for the first time, and the tabloids also continued to compare Meghan and Kate, from dressing up to eating preferences, they must be judged, but also made William and Harry brothers begin to compete secretly in the media.
And this competition later became more and more deteriorating and dark, and finally became the black material for the two sides! One of the most controversial is the Meghan Crown incident during the period when Harry and Meghan are about to hold a grand wedding.
A reporter got news from the royal family website, breaking the news that Meghan wanted to wear an emerald crown a few days before the wedding, but the royal family told her that she couldn't, because the crown and Russia have a not very good historical relationship, Harry got angry after knowing it, saying: "What Megan wants, give her what!" The royal family reported the matter to the Queen, who approached Megan and said that Meghan did not understand.
In the end, although Meghan did not wear the emerald crown, the wind plummeted since then, the British thought that Harry had a love brain, and Megan was an unreasonable and annoying woman, so wave after wave of news spraying Megan began.
Since then, there have been revelations about Harry and Meghan, which have reached their peak, and a reporter in the documentary, Omid Scobie, also said: "For a long time, as long as the most destructive revelations about Harry and Meghan came from the royal working group, as well as royal assistants, royal courtiers, etc."
Then the first episode ended here, and the last reporter's revelation can be said to be the most direct evidence of the deliberate leakage of Meghan's black material within the royal family, and it is no wonder that the royal family will be angry. In particular, this reporter, Omid Scobie, is also a dedicated journalist who is quite friendly with Megan.
As for the second episode that will be broadcast, it will begin to tell the story of Meghan and Harry's withdrawal from the royal family, that is, the content of the feud between Harry and Prince William's brothers from 2018 to the present, and the growing rift.
But all this is a blow to the 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, who recently pointed out that her health is not optimistic, and she was hospitalized in October. Although the Queen made a public appearance on 17 November to meet with the outgoing British Defence Minister, she attracted attention because of the eerie purple color on her hands.