Aussies have been watching Harry and Meghan’s show on Netflix – which makes them even more Republican

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Bestselling Australian novelist and true crime writer Vicki Petritis told The Telegraph she was heartbroken by the last three episodes, particularly the alleged attempts to silence Megan. “I saw that as utter manipulation,” she said. “Now that the Queen is gone, if the royal family can’t come to terms with Harry and turn things around so as not to be offensive to him and his family, what hope is there for them to survive?”

On social media, the commentary among Australians after recent episodes has been angry and sometimes heated.

“I just remembered it’s time for us in Australia to officially remove ourselves from this whole family,” said one of the tweets, from a woman in Sydney. Another user, a male software developer based in Canberra, described the royal family as an “embarrassing institution”.

However, other Australians expressed their displeasure and disinterest, with one commenting that the show featured “two very privileged people whining about how hard they are”.

Meanwhile, Peter Fitzsimmons, former chair of the Australian Republic Movement, commented sympathetically that the controversial series had changed his mind about the couple’s motives. “I’m starting to get a sense of what they were talking about,” he wrote on Twitter.

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