Megyn Kelly Blasts Prince Harry, Meghan Markle's Netflix Docuseries: 'It's A Joke'

Megyn Kelly was not impressed with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Netflix docuseries.

After "Harry & Meghan" premiered on Netflix with its first three episodes Thursday, the former Fox News host slammed the series on Dan Wootton's GB News show as a "joke" and claimed that it was not a documentary.

"It's a joke. It is propaganda to rehab the prince and princess, the duke and duchess. And this woman, [docuseries director] Liz Garbus, not only did she direct 'Handmaid's Tale,' she thinks that Meghan's living 'Handmaid's Tale' in the U.K. She thinks the royal family is subjecting people to that kind of lifestyle right now," Kelly claimed to Wootton.

Kelly claimed to have observed several "journalistic errors" or "ethical breaches" in the docuseries, which she said she detailed during Monday's broadcast of her SiriusXM podcast "The Megyn Kelly Show."

She argued that the project cannot be called a documentary because it only shows one side of the story, Prince Harry and Markle's.

"If you are going to hold something up as just our story, that's fine. Don't call it a documentary, just 'our story.' It's our version of what we lived. But this is not a documentary that actually documents truth," Kelly claimed.

"It's nothing close to journalistically sound. You don't, if you're a real journalist, include five pictures depicting their alleged harassment by the press that had absolutely nothing to do with [Harry and Meghan]. You don't include a picture, to represent the war of the press on them, in which the two of them consented and participated and absolutely knew the photographer was there," she continued.

The trailers for the Netflix docuseries previously sparked controversy for allegedly using stock footage from paparazzi encounters unrelated to Prince Harry and Markle to show the couple being hounded by photographers.

The docuseries was also criticized for allegedly using an image taken during a pre-arranged and authorized photo call in South Africa to suggest that the press was invading the couple's privacy.

Kelly also took issue with the docuseries team's alleged failure to get and include comments from Buckingham Palace and the royal family regarding the contents of the project.

"You do not fail to contact the palace through about 50 different means available to you 10 different times to make sure the audience understands that they had the chance to comment, that you absolutely made contact with the right people and that they declined to do so. Everybody knows all of these, except for apparently Netflix and Liz Garbus, who don't understand that at all," Kelly claimed.

A disclaimer at the start of "Harry & Meghan's" first episode said that the royal family had declined to comment on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's series, but just hours after the show's premiere, Us Weekly, People and other outlets reported that the palace was not contacted for comment on the contents of the docuseries.

Kelly went on to criticize the Sussexes' project for allegedly smearing the BBC as "having put on an orchestrated reality show" without reaching out to the network for comment.

She claimed that these "undermined the credibility" of the Netflix docuseries.

In one episode of their show, Markle claimed that an interview she and Prince Harry gave to the BBC in 2017 about their engagement was "orchestrated" and "rehearsed."

"We weren't allowed to tell our story because they didn't want [us to]," the duchess claimed, without clarifying whether "they" refers to the royal family or the BBC.

Mishal Husain, the journalist who conducted the couple's 2017 interview, shared her own version of how the engagement interview went during an appearance on BBC Radio 4's "World at One," Variety reported.

"I remember it as being a day that was full of joy, where the major focus for everyone who was there from the BBC team was to make sure that Harry and Meghan, the two people at the heart of it, felt as comfortable as possible because this was their day," she said. "We went to Kensington Palace, we went and had a conversation with Harry and Meghan and two members of their team beforehand and we talked about what the interview would cover, what they felt comfortable sharing. And after that we went and set up our cameras, they went away for a bit, did their photocall, and when they came back, we recorded a 20-minute interview."

Lord Tony Hall, who was BBC director general in 2017, also told "World at One" that the claims that the interview was "orchestrated" or "rehearsed" were "simply untrue."

The final three episodes of "Harry & Meghan" are due to drop Thursday.