(CNN) — Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have taken aim at the British media, vowing to recall the experiences of their bitter separation from the British royal family, in their highly anticipated Netflix documentary series.
The project, “Harry & Meghan,” was launched on Thursday after months of speculation that the couple would star in a breakout series.
The first three episodes of the show were released this Thursday.
In a video diary shown in the first episode, recorded shortly after the couple finished their last royal duties in March 2020, Harry said: “It’s really hard to look back now and say, what happened? How did we end up here?”
He said he was “genuinely concerned for the safety” of his family.
Buckingham Palace is likely to be prepared for the fallout from the series, following tensions between Harry and his father, King Charles, and his brother, Prince William.
Harry took aim at the British media in the opening minutes of the show. “Nobody knows the whole truth. We know the whole truth, the institution knows the whole truth and the media knows the whole truth because they have been aware of it,” Harry said.
“My face was everywhere, my life was everywhere, the tabloids had taken over everything,” Meghan added of her early experiences with the press.
A frame from the documentary shows Meghan crying.
Harry also compared Meghan to his mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident while being chased by paparazzi in 1997. “A lot of who Meghan is, and what she is like, is so similar to my mother… She she has the same confidence, she has this warmth in her,” he said in the first episode.
“I accept that there will be people around the world who fundamentally disagree with what I have done and how I have done it. But I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family, especially after what happened to my mother,” Harry continued.
And Meghan described her engagement announcement in 2017 as an “orchestrated reality show.”
The first three episodes were released on Thursday, with three more scheduled for next week. The interviews were completed in August, a month before Queen Elizabeth’s death, according to the series.
