Some of the blows were low. In the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s slick new Netflix documentary, Prince Harry took aim at his brother, the Prince of Wales, and his father, King Charles, while his wife Meghan swiped at her sister-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales.
“I think for so many people in the family, especially the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mold as opposed to somebody you perhaps are destined to be with,” Harry said. Perhaps that’s a fair, if unfilial, reflection on his father’s doomed marriage to his mother, Princess Diana. But what a cruel judgement on his brother William’s choice of wife.
Later in the show — three out of six episodes were released on Thursday — the Duchess, disheveled for the cameras, contrasted her cheery informality with the emotional frigidity of the royal family. The cameras then cut to a pompous photo of the Prince and Princess of Wales descending a grand staircase, with Catherine wearing a stiff white ensemble and matching pillbox hat.
