'Harry & Meghan' Director Liz Garbus Says Buckingham Palace Tried to 'Discredit' Documentary

After the eponymous Netflix documentary on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was released last month, Buckingham Palace said it was not available for comment on Harry & Meghan. But according to series director Liz Garbus, that is not true.

In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine (and in an interview with People magazine), the Oscar-nominated director described the experience of making the documentary as an extreme experience that provided insight into the "psychological warfare that the Palace suspected" that Harry and Meghan

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"For example, Buckingham Palace said we were never contacted when we asked for comment [on the docu-series]," Garbus said. 'They did so to discredit us. By discrediting us, they discredit the content of the program."

She added, "We had an 'Alice in Mirrorland' moment."

At the beginning of Harry & Meghan, a title card reads, "Members of the Royal Family have declined to comment on the content within the series."

After the series premiered on December 8, a palace official told People that neither members of the family nor Buckingham Palace, nor Prince William's office at Kensington Palace, said they had not been asked to comment on the show's content.

"Netflix officials later told People that Prince Charles and Prince William's communications office were contacted in advance and given the right to respond to claims in the series," People reported. A royal source added while speaking with People that "Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace received an email claiming to be from a third-party production company through the email address of an unknown organization. When they contacted Arcewell and Netflix to confirm the source of the information, they did not receive a response. Also, according to a royal source, the email did not mention the series as a whole.

Garbus told Vanity Fair magazine that Harry and Meghan saw the documentary as a way to tell "a love story from their perspective, as opposed to a love story told by others," (and according to OK magazine).

"What was really important to me was connecting the dots with these big historical issues," she says.

"They were very open and willing to go down a path that I hadn't initially thought of. [The love story] is the spine, but for me it was always about connecting the dots between the personal story and the larger historical context."

She continued. 'I don't feel that the monarchy is blasphemous, just as I don't feel the U.S. government is blasphemous. It is our role as storytellers and critical thinkers to raise these questions."

Regarding the so-called "Sussex fatigue"-the perception by many that Harry and his wife have been overexposed by the docu-series, Harry's book Spare, and other recent interviews-Garbus said, "When someone else writes about Harry and Meghan When someone else is writing about Harry and Meghan, people are very happy to read all about Harry and Meghan. But when Harry and Meghan want to tell their story in their own words, suddenly it becomes a problem. There are more documentaries and books written about Harry and Meghan than there are books produced by Harry and Meghan themselves. More documentaries and books have been written about Harry and Meghan than Harry and Meghan have produced themselves.