The difference is that those were documentaries that they claim they didn't participate in. You can make a documentary about anyone without their permission.
Your comments appear to be a misreading of what I was talking about in response to another poster emphasizing the 'celebrity' aspect of H&M's lives. As I pointed out previously, Meghan was born and grew up in L.A., and she was familiar with television show production due to her Dad working on a couple of prominent television series. Meghan also had a background in theater and performing in school productions from a young age.
However, even after she hit it big on the successful show,
Suits, Meghan was not a well-known, high profile celebrity. She was a successful, professional working actress, and she used her success to give back, always with a focus on humanitarian causes and advocacy for women and girls. She's always had depth and substance to her character. She's not a lightweight, frivolous person, regardless of how critics view her.
The main point is that Meghan was not catapulted to worldwide fame and high interest A-list celebrity until she met, dated, and married Prince Harry. And even then, as Meghan said in the SA documentary, she was not familiar with non-stop tabloid treatment, particularly not of the abusive kind that is prevalent in the U.K. As Meghan said, she expected royal life to be difficult, but she also thought media coverage would at least be fair and based on reality and truth, not on lies and fiction.
In regard to Prince Harry and other royals, they are born into royalty. And
in the modern world, no matter who thinks differently, royalty in and of itself equates to celebrity. Whether or not prominent royals agree to or seek out attention, the attention will always be there, particularly when they have charismatic appeal -- that goes for members of royalty around the world. But of course, it's the British royals who are the most high profile, historically. Again, it's not about whether the royals agree to interviews or documentary coverage. They all do at different times for different reasons. But surely none of them enjoy errant and abusive tabloid treatment
They did do interviews the one that sticks out in my mind is the one with Matt Lauer... As I see it the problem with this interview is that it is being made out to be an ax to grind type interview about the royal family. Gail didn't help matters by announcing it was going to be a no holds barred interview.
My guess is that it's just going to be a generic interview about their charities with pictures of Archie...
I don't think they want to sever all their ties with the royals with an interview telling nasty bits of gossip about them. Harry is slated to go to the UK to see them all again.
Yes, that was an interesting interview the brothers had with Lauer back in the day. There has always been a huge amount of interest in the U.S. in William and Harry because they are Diana's sons, and Diana was beloved around the world.
In regard to the Oprah interview, the CBS announcement states that it will be an intimate, wide-ranging interview. I don't know exactly what Gayle King said, but if she referenced 'no-holds barred,' that is the same way the show is being promoted by the production company and by CBS. However, it is pure speculation coming from U.K. media and some observers that 'no-holds barred' somehow equates to the Sussexes 'having an ax to grind.' Or that it somehow means they will 'tell nasty bits of gossip.'
Such speculative characterizations are in the minds of those who are framing the upcoming interview that way. But to the contrary, that is not how the interview is being promoted, and it's not how the Sussexes have characterized it. Their critics can believe what they will, frame it as they will, and whine about it endlessly as they will, because apparently this is how the U.K. media and certain other observers wish to view M&H, no matter what M&H do or say.
It was recently reported on social media that one U.K. publication posted 22 articles about Meghan and Harry in one day!!!! Meghan and Harry have done nothing to invite or encourage such ridiculous excess! In fact,
I believe the Oprah interview came about recently as an effort by M&H to be done with this over-the-top frivolous clickbait and constantly negative U.K. tabloid excess for once and for all.
See Chris Ship's revelations in my below post, which only confirm my suspicions that M&H are reacting to the constant U.K. media clickbait about them by deciding to speak with Oprah. It seems to me M&H wish to shut down the OTT negativity and pointless clickbait articles about them, as much as they can.
