As Buckingham Palace braces itself for the subsequent instalment of the Harry and Meghan documentary, claims from the first part of their Netflix series continue to unravel.
Questions have already been raised about the show’s cynical editing and inconsistencies in the couple’s story, which include variants on how they first met and received engaged.
Now former royal courtiers have spoken out to disregard claims made by way of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about their time in the royal household as outright ‘lies’. The modern-day claims to unravel in full:
CLAIM: The Duke of Sussex persistently complained that he was stalked by the paparazzi and in contrast making an attempt to break out photographers to a ‘hunter versus prey’ battle. He described being burdened whilst a montage of clips displaying him being surrounded through photographers on night time outs crammed the screen.
REALITY: Prince Harry allegedly posed for snap shots on nights out to assist promote his shut friend’s nightclub.
A buddy informed The Sun he agreed to stroll out of the foremost entrance of the exclusive Chelsea nightspot Public, which used to be co-owned by using his buddy Guy Pelly, in order to be pictured. Mr Pelly knew that a photo of Harry at the club would supply it mass exposure.
The supply said: ‘Harry started out becoming a regular at the club late in 2010. Guy Pelly was his friend and he acquired Harry to come, which was once notable for its profile.



‘Pelly commonly sneaked him in and out of the lower back door. It was his notion to get him at the front door a few times. Harry was pictured and, boom, the membership absolutely took off.’
CLAIM: Meghan has complained that Kensington Palace aides cautioned her no longer to invite her niece Ashleigh Hale, the daughter of her estranged half-sister Samantha Markle, to her 2018 wedding.
She said they struggled with the thinking that her estranged half-sister used to be no longer invited: ‘How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister’s daughter is?
‘And so with Ashleigh, the practise at the time was once to now not have her come to our wedding.’
In the programme, Ashleigh, an immigration lawyer, said she used to be left feeling ‘hurt’ through the decision.



REALITY: Royal sources have disregarded the claims as a ‘complete and utter lie’ and stated that they had, in fact, desired greater of Meghan’s family at the wedding to make it ‘look much less weird’.
A supply told the Sunday Times: ‘That just didn’t happen. We in no way gave any advice, steer or education on who of her household or pals should or shouldn’t come.’ The supply said Meghan said she would have invited Ashleigh however did now not prefer to as it ‘would have put her underneath excessive scrutiny’.
‘It was now not a question she put to us. We would never tell her no longer to invite her personal niece and we would in no way get concerned in any management of private relationships,’ they added.
Another supply confirmed: ‘Meghan didn’t prefer the media to be aware of about Ashleigh. No one on earth would have stated don’t invite family to the wedding. That’s a entire and utter lie. We desired more household there to make it look less weird for her.’ Meghan’s mother Doria used to be the solely member of her family at the wedding as her father Thomas Markle had suffered a heart attack after being accused of staging pics for money.



NO ROYAL LESSONS.
CLAIM: Harry and Meghan declare that she used to be left to fend for herself and was once now not given any schooling on royal etiquette to help her adapt to her new role.
Meghan said she did now not know what a walkabout was once or how to curtsy and was reduced to Googling the national anthem. She complained she was left floundering with no instructions, struggled with what to wear and used to be compelled to ‘learn a lot’ on her own.
Harry said the lack of assist used to be ‘just ridiculous’.
REALITY: Royal sources stated this was a ‘total lie’ and that Meghan was introduced with a special dossier about her future role entire with get entry to to a list of specialists who ought to assist her.
‘There used to be prep for everything, walkabouts, clothes, everything,’ a supply instructed the Sunday Times. According to the newspaper, Meghan met with simply two experts: the late Queen’s non-public secretary Lord Geidt and a well-connected man or woman for wardrobe advice.
THE MISLEADING IMAGES.
CLAIM: Filmmakers used pix purporting to show that Meghan used to be being pursued by means of the press in a ‘dangerous way’ when filming Suits.
In episode two, Silver Tree, the producer of Suits, claimed humans were breaking into the vicinity the place Meghan’s trailer used to be and stated photographers would hide with ‘really long lenses’. 

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