Meghan Markle and the farce bow to Queen Elizabeth: it’s controversy

«unpleasant», «not funny», even «disrespectful». In the first three first episodes of Harry & Meghan, the Netflix docuseries reviewing the recent Sussex vicissitudesthere is a scene that – more than the others – is fueling the controversy: this is the sequence in which the duchess replies, emphasizing it, the bow which he did in front of the Queen Elizabeth on the day of their first meeting, al royal lodge of Windsor.

“My grandmother was the first senior member of the family who Meghan he met,” Harry says. «She didn’t know in the least what the system consisted of, it was a bit shocking for her.’ By the way, according to the words of the former American actress, it was all improvised: “Until a moment ago, I didn’t know I was going to meet her. We were in the car he asked me if I could do the reverenceI thought it was a joke.”

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“I was starting to realize that it was an important thing. I thought the Americans would get it: we have medieval dinners, medieval games. And that was it, I curtsied like this,” Meghan adds, leaning forward and spreading your arms. «Nice to meet you Your Majesty, did I go well? It was intense. And when she left, Eugenie and Jack told me that I had been good».

A scene that – in fact – unleashed the storm in the UK: many have read about the sarcasm in Meghan’s gesture, who also lets herself go to a little laugh. Among experts and enthusiasts the debate is open: those who defend the duchess argue that there is nothing wrongis simply a tender and nice way to remember an important moment, the attacker instead focuses on the expression of Harry.

Sitting on the sofa next to his wife, the prince looks indeed think away when Meghan returns the bow. One detail that it has not escaped the public and that for many it is downright significant. Harry didn’t like it either?

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