The highly anticipated Netflix documentary, Harry and Meghan, streamed on Netflix on Thursday, December 8.

It starts off as a sweet, emotional, sensitive presentation about two people from practically different planets, meeting in very conventional ways (they found each other on Instagram), and joining their lives as soulmates, in spite of challenges and differences. Throughout the episodes, you can feel their love, support for each other and as well as their strengths and weaknesses. 

Meghan wasn’t looking for a prince, but she found one. 

“Meg and I had met through Instagram. I was scrolling through my feed. Someone who was a friend had this video of [her] … with the like Snapchat thing … like dog ears.” Harry said: “I was like, who is that?”

They seemed to fall in love at first sight. Meghan said, “He was just so fun. Just so refreshingly fun and that was the thing… we were like childlike together.”

Harry seemed to know right away that he had found “the one.” “That’s when it hit me,” Harry said. “This girl, this woman, is amazing. She’s everything I’ve been looking for.”

Two lovers learning about each other and falling in love in an innocent way, and trying to keep the outside world away until they no longer could. 

The couple went from their early courtship and love story to talking about their intimidation and harassment by the British tabloid media, and how attacks against Meghan were dismissed by members of the royal family as a rite of passage.

Throughout, you see Harry as his mother’s son, like her, a royal who doesn’t really fit into that life and never felt fully comfortable with it. 

Harry compared how the media treated his wife Meghan and the paparazzi’s intrusion into her personal life to the point where she and her family and friends felt unsafe, with the treatment the late Princess Diana went through that led to her death in 1997.

Princess Diana died during a car crash as the vehicle she was in was speeding from paparazzi chasing them down.

Although Netflix had hyped the documentary up as containing bombshells about the royal family and built-up anticipation that the Duke and Duchess would spill some secrets, the first three episodes are pretty mellow, and deeply reveal sides of “H” and “Meg” that we never get to see.

Referred to as Volume 1 of the documentary, the episodes focus on how they met and their experience dating under the radar and even wearing disguises on their dates. The couple also made some disclosures, with Meghan discussing receiving death threats and her first meeting with Prince William and Kate.

The episodes also talk about how the British press treated the couple, the impact on their relationship, and their eventual exit from royal duties.

Prince Harry said that Meghan sacrificed her life to be with him and join him in his life and how ultimately, he also sacrificed everything to be with her. He said he was terrified that the UK media would drive Meghan away.

This seems to explain why Queen Elizabeth II had said that Harry was “too much in love.”

Harry referred to the media’s mistreatment of women marrying into the royal family and especially because Meghan, of mixed races, was the first woman of color in the family. 

She was seen by some commentators as a symbol of Britain’s 21st century society, which has been  changing over the years to a multicultural, multiracial population.

Harry said he talked to the royal family to speak up about how the media was harassing Meghan, but they all dismissed it as something that everyone else goes through, and Meghan was not special and had to go through it as well. But according to him, the difference was the race element.

The media was brutal and talked about Meghan’s ethnicity and color and even referenced Compton, California, trying to present her as coming from an American slum, which is false.

Meghan said she was taken aback when she first met Prince William and Kate, as she did not think it would be a formal meeting but quickly realized that the formality from the outside also carries to the inside.

Buckingham Palace has been preparing for renewed criticism by the couple after Harry and Meghan attacked King Charles and Prince William during an interview with Oprah last year. However, although volume one of the documentary has subtle hints of racism within the royal family, the couple did not make any attacks on any royal family member.

Allegations of racism in Buckingham Palace have simmered for a while. They boiled back up last week after Prince William’s godmother stepped down from her honorary role after being accused of racist comments to a black guest.

People will have to patiently wait for the final part of the documentary, to be released next week, to find out if the couple makes any bombshell accusations.