On eve of new TV airing Harry and Meghan’s ratings plummet

A majority of Britons now have an unfavorable view of Prince Harry and Meghan, according to a recent YouGov survey, and Prince Charles popularity has skyrocketed.

A part of the British press accuses the couple of denouncing the behavior of the press while at the same time using it to convey their messages and clean up their image

The Prince insists the lack of empathy of his family with him and his wife Meghan Markle in a new documentary series devoted to mental health which opens Friday in Apple TV +.

“I thought my family would help me, but all the demands, the requests, the signals found a silence or a total indifference,” Harry explained about the difficulties that he and his wife had before the birth of their son Archie.

Both claim to have suffered psychological problems. Meghan even said that she thought about committing suicide in 2019.

In the series entitled The Me You Can’t See which he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey, Enrique says he was ashamed to ask his family for help, “because like many people my age, I knew that it wouldn’t give me what I needed ”.

There are no scandalous revelations, but the youngest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana deals in this series a new blow to the Windsor house, already shaken by the interview that he and Meghan offered to Oprah Winfrey for the US network CBS in early March.

He criticizes his father again, accused of indifference towards his children.

“When I was younger, my father told William and me: it was like that for me, so it will be the same thing for you,” says 36-year-old Harry about the aggressiveness of British tabloids who rub their hands with rumors and scandals of the royal family.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” says the Duke of Sussex. “It is not because you have suffered that your children should suffer as well. It should even be the opposite (…) Do everything you can to transform the bad experiences you have lived into something positive”.

In the series, Harry also tells how the therapy he started more than four years ago has allowed him to “break the cycle” and not relive what his father and especially his mother suffered.

It was the relationship with Meghan that led him to seek a solution to the psychological problems that plagued him since the death of his mother Diana in 1997 when he was 12 years old. “I knew that if I didn’t start therapy to get better, I would lose this woman that I see myself spending the rest of my life with,” he says.

“The therapy enabled me to face everything,” he says in the series, where several personalities who talk about their mental problems participate, such as professional basketball player DeMar DeRozan or singer Lady Gaga.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced in January 2020 their intention to retire from their royal duties. Months later they moved to California, where Meghan Markle hails from. In February 2021, Queen Elizabeth II announced that the couple would lose their last titles.

“What I regret most is not having taken a position earlier in my relationship with my wife, denouncing the racism” suffered by the former actress, of a black mother and a white father, in the press and on social networks, says Harry.

The prince does not again accuse his own family of racism. Earlier, he said that a relative was concerned about his son’s skin color before he was born.

The indictment shook Buckingham Palace. Prince William assured that the Windsors “are not a racist family.”