Final episodes of Prince Harry, Meghan's series are out: Bombshell remarks

Sky News royal correspondent Laura Bundock said, "We are getting a real sense of why William and Harry fell out so badly. It begins, in Harry's view, when he and Meghan became so popular that they were dominating the headlines. Harry says if you're the "supporting act" that "upsets people", and pretty quickly the media coverage about the couple turns negative. He lists the number of similar stories (25) where Meghan had been criticised and Kate had been praised, for example on how they held their baby bumps."

Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, says without needing long flights it was much easier to visit her daughter and grandkids with them in the new house.

“We were there for six weeks and noone knew,” says Prince Harry. “My family still thought I was in Canada.”

Prince Harry said that he reassured Meghan Markle that their security would never be withdrawn.

“Meghan’s background, her heritage, the well-documented hate campaigns against us, suspicious packages being sent to the palaces specifically with her name on or my name on. They would never do that. And then they did it," Prince Harry said. 

“We appreciate everything that you did for our country” Meghan says somebody on their flight back to Canada said to her after that last royal engagement. “I tried so hard,” Meghan Markle says. “And that’s the piece that’s so triggering cos you go ‘and it still wasn’t good enough and you still don’t fit in’.”

“I’m going to miss this country, and so is Meghan,” Prince Harry says, after having explained again that he feels it didn’t have to be this way.

Meghan Markle said she felt free to finally wear colourful outfits during her royal farewell tour in the UK. Meghan Markle said, “Until that last week in the UK, I rarely wore colour and I never wanted to upstage or ruffle any feathers, so I just tried to blend in. But I wore a lot of colour that week, I felt “well let’s just look like a rainbow.”

“Our story, our life, literally got taken from underneath us,” says Prince Harry.

Meghan Markle said they put out a statement saying sadly they would be “stepping back, not stepping down.”

“For my whole life, the purse strings have been controlled by my father,” Prince Harry said.

“It was my decision, she never asked to leave,” says Prince Harry, saying that the media blaming the woman for the decision of a couple was misogyny.

Meghan Markle says the coverage took her sense of self away from her. “The truth didn’t matter, the clickbait did,” she says.

“The saddest part of it was the wedge created between me and my brother so that he’s now on the institution’s side, and part of me I get that. That’s his inheritance. SO to some extent its already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and the continuation of this institution,” Harry says.

Meghan Markle described the moment a "very charming" King Charles walked her down the aisle. Her own father, Thomas, did not attend the wedding after he hit the headlines for colluding with paparazzi.

“Harry’s dad is very charming and I said to him like I’ve lost my dad in this, so him as my father-in-law was really important to me,” Meghan Markle said. 

Harry says the royal family were only willing to make a date for the meeting after Meghan had departed for Canada to be with Archie.

Meghan says imagine having a conversation about the whole future of your life, with you as the mum and the wife and target, “aren’t invited to have a seat at the table.”

“It was clear to me that they planned it so that you weren’t in the room,” Harry says.

Prince Harry said the meeting - called to discuss his exit from the UK with Meghan - had created a "wedge" between himself and his brother.

"He's now on the institution's side and I get, part of that I get, I understand that's his inheritance. So to some extent it's already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and continuation of this institution."

"Once I got in the car after the meeting I was told about a joint statement that had been put out in my name and my brother's name squashing the story about him bullying us out of the family," Prince Harry said.

Prince Harry said, “Once we announced it [on Valentine’s day], I got messages from two completely different people who sent me the front page of the Daily Mail from Valentine’s Day 1984, of my mother announcing she was pregnant with me.”

"I was shocked. We had no idea. It was maybe a coincidence. Or maybe not a coincidence."

Among Prince Harry's new claims is that he was at one point blocked from seeing his grandmother.

Meghan described,"So we were flying back from Vancouver straight to Heathrow, and right as we're getting on the plane, this urgent message comes through to H saying 'you are not allowed to see Her Majesty, make sure your principle is aware he cannot go and see her. She’s busy. She has plans all week'."

Prince Harry said, "Yes, I'm busy. I've been told that I'm busy. I've actually been told that I'm busy all week."

In their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview last year, Harry and Meghan revealed the Duchess of Sussex had contemplated suicide. Prince Harry has now admitted he regrets how he dealt with his wife's struggles at the time. He says he had felt "angry and "ashamed" when he learned of her suicidal thoughts.

"I dealt with it as institutional Harry as opposed to husband Harry and what took over my feelings was my royal role. I had been trained to think 'what are people going to think if we don't go to this event we are gonna be late' and looking back now I hate myself for it."

Describing a meeting at Sandringham about plans for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to move abroad, the Duke of Sussex alleged his brother had screamed and shouted at him.

"I went in with the same proposal that we'd already made publicly, but once I got there I was given five options - one being all in, no change, five being all out," Prince Harry says.

"I chose option three in the meeting - half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen."

In episode six, the couple say they still suffered significant press intrusion after their move to the US. Six weeks after moving into their Los Angeles mansion, Prince Harry says the Daily Mail had "pinpointed" their location and published it on their website.

Phone footage of a helicopter over the couple's home is seen, as Prince Harry whispers: "It's almost five in the morning. Archie's waking up because of this."

Meghan Markle adds: "Oh my god, they're just circling. What is wrong with these people?"

Netflix released the final three episodes of a documentary series from Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Thursday, setting out their battles with the media and why they stepped down as working members of the royal family. Read here

Prince Harry says that he and Meghan Markle were "doing the job better than the person who was born to do it". Meghan "stole" the limelight from other members of the family, the couple said. 

Prince Harry has gone into detail about how he claims the offices of royal family members have been briefing against each other.

"I have 30 years experience of looking behind the curtain and seeing how this system works and how it runs and just constant briefings about other members of the family, favours inviting the press in, it's a dirty game," he says.

“You know there is leaking but there is also planting of stories. So if the comms team want to be able to remove a negative story about their principal, they will trade and give you something about someone else's principal so the offices end up working against each other. So its kind of a weird understanding, acceptance that this happens,” Prince Harry said. 

Prince Harry escalated his war with the media by directly accusing the publishers of the Daily Mail of causing his wife Meghan Markle to have a miscarriage.

The Duchess of Sussex was in the middle of a court battle with Associated Newspapers over their publication of a letter she wrote to her father Thomas Markle when she lost a baby in July 2020.

One of the couple's friends, Lucy Fraser, says Australia was a "turning point" for the couple, as their popularity "threatened" the Royal Family - something Prince Harry agrees to.

Lucy Fraser says in episode four: "I think Australia was a real turning point because they were so popular, so popular with the public, the internals at the palace were incredibly threatened by that."

Prince Harry then adds, "The issue is when someone who is marrying in - who should be a supporting act - is stealing the limelight or doing the job better than the person who was born to do this, that upsets people, it shifts the balance."