Harry & Meghan: Lorraine discusses final Netflix episodes

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One of the “first acts” that triggered ‘Megxit’ has been revealed by a lawyer close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. A lawyer has described the “final straw” for Meghan Markle which put her down a road towards splitting from frontline royal duties during episode 5 of Netflix series Harry & Meghan.

Prince Harry and Meghan announced at the beginning of 2020 that they would “step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family”.

Just under a year before, the Mail on Sunday published extracts of the Duchess of Sussex’s handwritten letter to father Thomas Markle.

In episode five of six of Netflix’s “Harry and Meghan” documentary, released today, Meghan suggested she was snubbed by senior royals when trying to deal with the issue in the way she saw fit.

The Duchess told millions of viewers across the world that the newspaper was comfortable about publishing the excerpts because “they knew the [Royal] Family would encourage us not to sue”.

When Meghan held meetings with royal officials, who she claims previously told her to write the letter to discourage Mr Markle from criticising the institution in the media, she told Netflix that her take on the issue was: “So we have to draw the line. We have to take legal action.”

The Duchess said: “They said ‘Yes, of course’. And I would follow up for weeks and weeks and weeks. ‘Hey what’s going on with this?’ Nothing.”

Prince Harry added in the documentary: “After months of saying, ‘she needs to do something about this’, we took separate legal advice.”

Lawyer Jenny Afia, partner at Schillings Law Firm, described her feeling upon first meeting with the Duchess that “it was really serious” – that “it was having a horrid impact on Meghan”.

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The legal representative went on to describe the media’s coverage of the affair as the “final straw”, noting: “This barrage of negative articles about the breakdown of the relationship with her father was the final straw in a campaign of negative, nasty coverage about her.

“Looking back, it was one of the first acts, um, of them breaking away from the institution.”

She added: “I think Meghan went along with [the Royal Family’s ‘never complain, never explain’ attitude] for a long period. But there was a real kind of war against Meghan”.

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A Buckingham Palace aide told the Times ahead of the documentary’s airing that members of the Royal Family were “steeling” themselves “for what’s coming in the slight spirit of tedium”.

They joked that “it’s a curious-looking form of privacy they’ve sought”.

Meghan also suggested some of the negative press against her was in some way engineered by royal officials, telling Netflix: “A story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute, and they’d go, ‘We gotta make that go away’. But there’s real estate on a website homepage. There is real estate there on a newspaper front cover. And something has to be filled in there about someone royal.”

Lucy Fraser, a friend, described the Duchess as a “scapegoat”.

Meghan Markle won her legal fight against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday over the letter sent to her father.

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