‘Harry & Meghan’ trailer: Netflix shares 1st look at dramatic documentary

The trailer for Netflix's docuseries following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sets up a dramatic behind-the-scenes look at the Sussexes.

Netflix has shared the first trailer for its Prince Harry and Meghan Markle documentary, and it’s clear from the brief video that the world is about to see the couple in a whole new light.

The one-minute trailer for Harry & Meghan, set to a slow and dramatic piano soundtrack, opens with a series of behind-the-scenes black-and-white photos showcasing the highs of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private life — selfies while on vacation, holding hands while Harry cradles a guitar, canoodling in a photo booth, a silhouette of a pregnant Markle and a photo of the couple dancing at their 2018 wedding reception.

But as the video continues, the music intensifies and so do the visuals; there’s a photo of Markle crying while on the phone, one of a frosty-looking Prince William and Kate Middleton sitting separate from Markle during the Sussexes’ final official engagement in 2020 and a brief flash of Harry and Markle wiping their eyes during an interview.

“Why did you want to make this documentary?” director Liz Garbus asks the couple from behind the camera.

“No one sees what’s happening behind closed doors,” Harry says. “I had to do everything I could to protect my family.”

The trailer for the six-part docuseries is the first time Netflix has publicly acknowledged the project, and the streaming service is billing it as an intimate series that “explores the clandestine days of their early courtship and the challenges that led to them feeling forced to step back from their full-time roles in the institution.

“With commentary from friends and family, most of whom have never spoken publicly before about what they witnessed, and historians who discuss the state of the British Commonwealth today and the royal family’s relationship with the press, the series does more than illuminate one couple’s love story, it paints a picture of our world and how we treat each other.”