ordinary people who have fallen foul to absolute press intrusion. i ve got to put my hands up. having been in that situation myself, when i was very ill, when i was going through my cancer diagnosis and what have you, it can absolutely destroy you. so i can t imagine what it might be like to have the sort of profile that harry and meghan have had and have it nonstop. all right. to be continued. we ll continue to follow this. ed owens and trisha goddard, thank you. the parents of one of the uva football players fatally shot during a class field trip speaks with cnn about their loss and the gun violence epidem uk. and the senate passes legislation to ban tiktok from u.s. government devices. what it signals for the company s future here in the u.s.
today, the king celebrated best business practice in westminster. tomorrow, he knows his family may well be a global story once again. at what point, if at all, do they decide to answer back? sarah campbell, bbc news. carolyn harris is a historian, author and royal commentator. she joins us now from toronto. thank you so much for speaking to us. first of all, one has been the general reaction to this netflix documentary? some have come underfire this netflix documentary? some have come under fire for being misleading? misleading? there has been a variety of misleading? there has been a variety of different misleading? there has been a j variety of different responses. there are those who argue that harry and meghan have every right to share their side of the story and we have seen other instances of harry and meghan speaking about their personal experiences, most notably the oprah interview last year but we have seen
the series will be pored over, dissected and commented on, just as these trailers have been, with the context in which some of these images have been used open to question. from a pr perspective, there are risks. as much as someone might want to go and tell their story and their truth, someone else might have a different recollection and a different perspective on what happened. and people will then start questioning your truth, picking holes in it, and if there is evidence to the contrary, suddenly the narrative can switch. there is a hierarchy of the family. this producer likens the series to the reality tv she has won numerous awards for. a bit like big brother, it s sort of, who wins? you decide. you will watch that series and think, the royal family need looking after, they ve come out of it better. or you will be on the side of harry and meghan and think, wow, they had to put up with a lot and i m on their side. but this isn t reality tv it s real life.
scrutiny of the preview for this documentary series, noting that some of the images displayed there are not events where harry and meghan were present. some are royal history, some are of other prominent people. the trailer is designed to bring in audiences so we will see what the documentary itself has to say about harry and meghan s experiences. h0 say about harry and meghan s experiences. say about harry and meghan s experiences. no doubt a lot of eole experiences. no doubt a lot of peeple will experiences. no doubt a lot of peeple will be experiences. no doubt a lot of people will be tuning - experiences. no doubt a lot of people will be tuning in. - experiences. no doubt a lot of people will be tuning in. what| people will be tuning in. what impact do you think this documentary will have on the british royal family? i documentary will have on the british royal family?- british royal family? i think it depends british royal family? i think it depends on british royal fami
and he was hired by the palace and he was hired by the palace and what is the relationship with the press. that could lead to a wider discussion. but if harry and meghan focus on critiquing members of the royal family, we have seen there has been a big wave of sympathy for king charles iii in the context of losing his mother, queen elizabeth ii, succeeding into the throne into those difficult circumstances. they were critics and how the future charles iii was betrayed in the crown on netflix and if this continues to focus on family rather than institutional monarchy, there will be or they may be sympathy for the king. why do you think harry and meghan have decided to release the netflix documentary now? well, i think they have had a long standing relationship with