As the world reacts to the first part of the Harry and Meghan documentary series on Netflixone thing that has become apparent is that Toronto police were unable to protect Meghan Markle from the paparazzi who swarmed the Canadian city to catch a glimpse of Prince Harry’s girlfriend.
“I would tell the police if another woman in Toronto right now said to you, ‘I have six grown men sleeping in their car around my house and following me everywhere I go and I’m scared,’ wouldn’t you say it was harassment?” Said Markle in an interview featured in the second episode of the docuseries. “They said, ‘yes but there’s really nothing we can do about who you’re dating.'”
“So it’s like I’m just supposed to live like this? They said yes and then I got a death threat and then things changed because I needed to be safe.”
As of 2016, Markle was still living in Toronto and filming the TV series Combinations. Once it was announced that the actor was dating a member of the royal family, as Markle described it, “the British media descended on Toronto.”
“My house was just surrounded. Just men sitting in their cars all the time, waiting for me to do anything,” Markle said in the Netflix docuseries.
“My neighbors texted me saying they’re knocking on everyone’s door, they’re trying to find you. They had paid some neighbors to install a live camera in my backyard. Suddenly it was like everything in my life became so much more insular. Like all the curtains were drawn, all the blinds were drawn. It was scary. My face was everywhere, my life was everywhere. The tabloids had taken over everything.
Harry’s response to the harassment and harassment Markle faced in Toronto was that he felt “completely helpless”, hearing about what was happening thousands of miles away.
In November 2016, AND Canada reported that police attended Markle’s home in Toronto “out of concern that his suddenly very high public profile could pose a security threat.”
A statement from Kensington Palace, dated November 8, 2016, indicates that Markle had been “subject to a wave of abuse and harassment”, including journalists and photographers trying to “illegally enter her home”.
Several viewers also took to social media to comment on this part of the docuseries in particular.
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