Harry & Meghan Netflix Docuseries Part 1

Bree is hosting a podcast where she discusses her perspective on various topics. She starts by talking about the highly anticipated Netflix docuseries about Meghan and Harry, which has sparked a lot of conversation. Bree finds their love story inspiring and enjoys hearing their firsthand account. She believes that Harry and Meghan don't care about others' opinions and are focused on their children, love for each other, and charity work. Bree also thinks that they are smart and using their popularity to their advantage. She believes that hearing their version of events is important and encourages people to consider their side of the story rather than blindly believing the media. Bree thinks that it's their right to share their experiences and that we should respect their decision to do so. She suggests that setting boundaries and owning one's narrative is important for mental health. Bree dismisses the idea that Harry and Meghan could bring down the monarchy and predicts that the royal Hello, my name is Bree, and welcome to my podcast, where I seek and hope to give my perspective and my perception of the things that I come across in being a citizen of the world. I am a natural born conversationalist, I like to listen, I like to ask questions, I like to learn, and I love to talk, so I hope you can come with me on this journey. So there's no better topic to start a new podcast than the story that we are all talking about. And of course that story is, drum roll please, Megan and Harry, the Netflix docuseries. This much anticipated documentary, according to the BBC, the first three episodes had two million of us in the UK tuned in and watching last Thursday when it dropped. We have the haters to the right, we have the lovers to the left, and the couldn't care less of somewhere in between. But where we can all agree is, it's got us all talking about Harry and Megan again. What I saw was an inspiring love story of two young, very good looking, I mean they photographed so well, elegant, well travelled, sophisticated, rich, goodwill ambassadors to the developing world, all in love. And how they are still in that very giddy stage of talking about how it all happened, and I'm not going to lie to you, I was smiling throughout all these moments of their love story. It's just nice to see people in love going, no you tell it, no you tell it, no you tell it, no you, what can I say, I'm a sucker for love. To me it was fascinating to be brought up close and personal into their Montecito private world where I had a front row ticket to watch, listen and see what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had to say. Now I don't know about you guys, but I love a first hand account. I want to hear directly from the source, straight from the horse's mouth as it were. So I was intrigued, I was hooked, I was in, and I'm here for it all, tell it all, I want to hear it and I'm not afraid to hear it too. I watched all three episodes back to back, I can't get enough. To me there was a genuine authenticity about it all, obviously their critics are like, they're attention seeking, blah blah blah, they said they wanted privacy, blah blah blah, they're destroying the monarchy, blah blah blah, they really did the Oprah interview, blah blah blah, stop, just stop. Where to begin? Firstly, Harry and Meghan, all in capital letters, don't care what you think, period. And to quote a famous African proverb, they said what they said and they said what they needed to say, exclamation mark. Secondly, Harry and Meghan care about what they think, their children, their love for each other and their charity work. Thirdly, y'all are playing checkers whilst Harry and Meghan are playing chess. Harry and Meghan are smart and savvy, they know that there's still an insatiable appetite for them and here, as we say in the business world, they are meeting the demand and getting paid by Netflix to do so. Savvy? Cause baby gorgeous, let me be the first to tell you this, but in Hollywood, it's all about the money, money, money and look y'all, everybody's gotta eat. In a public relations perspective, their publicity, whether you like it or not, so long as the media keep putting them on the covers of all the newspapers and people keep buying the publications, it makes them very bankable and very relevant and in another way, keeps the monarchy relevant as they excommunicated themselves from it. So the media is using them and they are using the media, win-win, nobody can be mad. However, where I'm happy is we're hearing their version of events and not what the media outlets feed. The media will never drop the story on them because they sell newspapers. It's like what they say in the theatre world, we need bums on seats and with Harry and Meghan, they get their bums on seats. It is what it is, folks. And now the question you have to ask yourself is, am I going to believe everything the media has said at face value or am I going to take what they say directly from the source? Look like it or not, this is their story to tell and they have a right to share their experience with whomever they want, however many times they want to. We have to give them the dignity to do that at the very least because we all have a story to tell and we will at some point want to be listened to or be heard when we tell that story. Can we really begrudge them for making and taking a decision when they felt mocked, humiliated, threatened, afraid and endangered? And what's wrong with owning your own narrative and being the author and director of your own story? Therapists encourage that kind of thing. Nowadays, mental health awareness is all about talking, sharing and expressing your feelings as not to let them build up and for you not to bottle them up inside. You need to let out the steam or you could blow a gasket, seriously. I think they're being open and honest, this is their truth and if you're too fragile to hear it, you don't have to. All this talk of, well, they should have done this or they shouldn't have done that, look, you don't have their problems. You have your own problems and you deal with them as you know how to and as you please and nobody condemns you for that, do they? And ask for the privacy issue. Like any of us, we want privacy on our terms, not on the terms of the media invading our space and allegedly making up stories. Again, a good therapist would call this setting boundaries. What we need to do is respect one another in the sense that whatever we go through, experiences are different and experiences will be different. We can't tell people what to do, how to feel and how to react to situations and also to honestly think that this young couple could single-handedly bring down a thousand-year old institution, it's just ridiculous. I mean, how weak would the institution be if it was that easy to tear down? It has been going a thousand plus years. Let me leave you with my prediction, if I may. I think Team RF, Royal Family, are by good advice in the process of rebranding. Now more than ever, as we have an incumbent king who is to usher in a newer, more improved version that has the pertinence, the sustainability, the continued longevity, the significance and the popularity of the modern-day-looking Britain. The king himself will sit the two lads down and tell them to pack it in. We need to solve the family politics amicably and we need to get woke, sharpish because Britain and the Commonwealth and the world are looking at us and Meghan is actually an asset to this family because she's half-black and represents us being forced into moving with the times and our modernisation as a brand. The brothers will shake hands and all will be forgiven. Do join me again when you next can. I've been Prima Thomas.