As viewers across the globe sat glued to their screens as the Harry and Meghan Netflix docuseries aired on Thursday, Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid has suggested the couple documented their journey stepping back from the Royal Family with the intention that it would one day be shared with the world.
Discussing the highly anticipated show on the breakfast programme just 20 minutes after the documentary aired at 8am, Reid said: "I think people will be surprised, perhaps, that a lot of the filming was going on...Harry and Meghan both clearly during the whole Megxit process were documenting it themselves.
"They were taking selfie videos, they had a photographer taking photographs. They clearly were documenting this over the past couple of years. They clearly had in mind that in some stage this would be their account of a moment in history."
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Her co-presenter Ben Shephard wondered whether their decision to document 'Megxit' may have come after the couple already found themselves in the eye of the critical media storm - or if they had planned it beforehand.
He said: "I wonder at what point they decided they needed to do that? Whether it was as a reaction to what was happening, the reaction to the attention they were getting, the press that was being written - that they said: 'We should document this'.
"Or whether it was before that, where it was even more strategic and saying: 'Look, we're going to do this, let's keep in mind that we actually might be able to do something with it. It could be informative and helpful to people out there who are dealing with all sorts of break-ups of family or however it might be.'"
It comes as both supporters and critics of the couple have been eagerly watching the first three episodes of the documentary which launched on Thursday.
The show sparked controversy before it even aired. Harry and Meghan faced shouts of 'Are you putting money before family' and 'Are you harming your family Harry?' from the media in New York as they posed for photographs on the red carpet at an awards gala on Tuesday night.
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