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Zara Woodcock

Harry and Meghan's pals defend use of Katie Price court footage in Netflix trailer

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's pals have come to their defense after the trailer for their Netflix documentary used 'fake' footage.

The new bombshell documentary dropped on Thursday morning, but Netflix teased the docuseries with promos in recent weeks.

In the teaser, a few clips showed endless photographers supposedly hounding them.

However, it turned out that the clip of the photographers was footage from Katie Price arriving at court in Crawley, West Sussex.

Meghan and Harry received backlash over the footage, but it is unclear whether they were even involved in creating the promo.

A source revealed that stock footage is 'standard practice' as they defended the couple.

"You use stock images to tell a story. It's not meant to be literal in a trailer," they said.

Footage was used from Katie Price arriving at court (GC Images)
The documentary has dropped today (Netflix)

The source claimed to The Daily Telegraph that the couple had no editorial control over the trailers.

It comes after a former member of royal staff attacked Netflix for using the Katie Price footage in the promo.

"She never confronted scenes where she was mobbed because we did so much to protect her... so they've had to make them up," they revealed to The Times.

Meghan and Harry's bombshell Netflix series finally dropped on Netflix on Thursday.

The first three episodes of the six-part show have been billed as “unprecedented and in-depth”.

Harry, in a trailer, has warned “we know the full truth” and spoken of a “hierarchy in the family”, a “dirty game” and “leaking” and “planting of stories”.

They even discussed their very first date (NETFLIX)

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Episode one of the series opened with words written in white on a black background.

It said: "This is a first-hand account of Harry & Meghan's story, told with never before seen personal archive.

"All interviews were completed by August 2022.

"Members of the royal family declined to comment on the content within this series."

Not only do they discuss their time with the Royal Family, they also discuss their personal lives and how their first date went.

Meghan revealed Harry was late to their first date, and he texted her to reveal he was stuck in traffic.

Harry added: "I was panicking, freaking out, I was sweating."

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