And just to think, no one at Buckingham Palace watched a minute of it on their end. There’s a new report that says Netflix’s Harry and Meghan was watched for a whopping 97.7 million hours in just one week alone. Here’s what you need to know.
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Royal Family News: Netflix’s Harry And Meghan Watched For Over 97.7 Million Hours In Its First Week
According to Variety, it seems like everyone tuned in to see what Harry and Meghan wanted to say, even though there are a lot of people who wouldn’t want to admit to it.
The publication says that the series was watched for 174 million hours in the Dec. 12-18 viewing window after almost a full month of streaming. What’s more, it was watched for 97.7 million hours between Dec. 12 and Dec. 18 compared to the previous 81.6 million.
Earlier in the month, it was reported that Harry and Meghan scored Netflix’s highest UK rating in a year – and that’s only for the first volume. The doc saw a record-smashing 2.4 million views on smart TV devices during its first day on Netflix. The second episode had 1.5 million streams, while the third installment managed 800,000. And just to think, these are just the number from across the pond.
What’s more, Harry and Meghan also managed to beat The Crown Season 5, which generated 1.1 million streams during the first day of its premiere. During the first volume of the series, while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex didn’t make any personal jabs at the royals themselves, they did talk a lot about the supposed ‘invisible contract’ the royals have with the British press, some of the racism that Meghan Markle had endured while she was in the UK and also touched some on Britain’s colonist history. The series called the Commonwealth a “privileged club of formally colonized nations.”
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The documentary also hinted that the royal family have long been benefitting from the historic slave trade. Writer Afua Hirsch told viewers: “It’s often said that Britain had a Deep South that was just as brutal, that actually enslaved more Africans than the United States of America did. But that Deep South was the Caribbean.”
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