There are two ways to evaluate Harry & Meghan, the new documentary series focusing on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. One is by the flash flood of publicity. Even the trailers managed to dominate UK newspaper front pages. When the first three episodes were released on Thursday, the BBC sent out a breaking news alert and set up a live blog.

This kind of quivering coverage makes the world think that Britons still have the mindsets of medieval peasants. It was also presumably what Netflix, desperate to revive growth in subscriber numbers, dreamt of when it agreed a deal with Harry and Meghan likely worth tens of millions of dollars.

Financial Times