Prince Harry and Meghan's Netflix series: Key revelations from final episodes

December 15, 2022

The final part of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix docuseries, titled Harry and Meghan, has dropped today - revealing yet more about their turbulent time in the UK.

Here, Sky News highlights the key admissions made by Harry and Meghan, along with a few surprises.

Episode 4

In episode 4 the series covers the day of the couple's 2018 wedding in Windsor.

Harry and Meghan recount their recollections of the day with the duchess describing the situation as "surreal".

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The couple seem genuinely happy as they laugh watching footage back of their big day. While watching images of Meghan walking down the aisle, Harry said: "Look at me, look what I got, look what I found. The world was watching us. When we were actually at the alter it was just the two of us."

Meghan adds: "H and I are really good at finding each other in the chaos when we find each other, when we reconnect and we're like its you its you, its not the rest of it doesn't matter but the rest of it feels temporary"

'Stealing the limelight'

Harry claims that the family started to have a problem with Meghan after they married because she began to take attention away from other members.

He said: "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."

The couple believe that their tour to Australia was a turning point for their relationship with the rest of the family, because they were receiving so much attention.

'All of this will stop if I'm not here'

Meghan revealed that as a result of all the drama in the press, she began to have thoughts of suicide, saying: "All of this will stop if I'm not here and that was the scariest thing about it, it was such clear thinking."

Her mother, Doria Ragland said: "I remember her telling me that, that she had wanted to take her own life and that really broke my heart because I knew that it was bad but to constantly be picked up at by these vultures, just picking away at her spirit that she would actually think of not wanting to be here, that it's not an easy one for a mum to hear. And I can't protect her, H can't protect her."

Meghan then claims that she wanted to go somewhere to get psychiatric help but wasn't allowed by the family because of "how it would look for the institution".

Harry said: "They knew how bad it was, they thought why couldn't she just deal with it. As if to say, everyone else has dealt with it so why can't she deal with it. But this was different, it was really different."

He added that he "hated himself" for not dealing with the issue as "institutional Harry" rather than "husband Harry".

'Fundamental disagreement' with Charles

The duke said he clashed with his father over the fact no one in the palace would have a private conversation with newspaper editors asking them to ease up on Meghan. He says Charles said to him "darling boy you can't take on the media, the media will always be the media".

He said he replied: "I fundamentally disagree."

Describing the Royal Family's relationship with the press as a "dirty game" he said that it was common practice for offices of various members to brief against each other and trade stories.

Harry says he and William had an agreement to never do that to each other, but his brother reneged on that promise. He claimed he would rather be "destroyed by the press" than play along with the business of trading stories.

Archie is born

The couple say they were both heavily criticised for not announcing the birth of their first child, Archie, in the usual way, with Harry describing the amount abuse they got for "not wanting to serve their child up on a silver platter" as "incredible".

Author Afua Hirsch said: "If anyone needed evidence as to why Meghan and Harry felt it necessary to protect their newborn baby from the media glare, they couldn't have asked for a better case to be made then the way in which the narrative played out after the birth."

Harry added: "Archie's just been born, media, social media starts to sort of take on a life of its own and the media posting a photo of a couple with a chimp and at the top it said 'royal baby leaves hospital' so that was one of the first things I saw."

The couple then recalled their trip to South Africa and the fallout which was not well received by the palace.

Read more: Key revelations from the first three episodes

Episode 5

In episode five Meghan said that after she had Archie she realised that she was being "fed to the wolves".

Trouble with Thomas Markle

Asked when things started to go wrong between her and her father, Meghan replied "when the media got involved".

She said that after the wedding Thomas Markle started giving interviews saying things about her and the wider Royal Family, and she offered to try and solve the issue between them and stop the negative press.

Meghan claims she was advised to write her father a letter by the Queen and the then Prince Charles to explain the situation to him.

The duchess says she sent the letter to her business manager in Los Angeles to get sent on to her father, but when she received the picture of her father's signature, she realised it wasn't his handwriting.

Later, the letter she'd written appeared in the Daily Mail.

Harry said: "People are scratching their heads going 'how would the Mail have either the stupidity, or the whatever you want to call it, to print a letter between a daughter and a father? Well the answer is simple. They knew the family would encourage us not to sue'."

However the couple did decide to sue, a decision they said caused further rifts between them and the rest of the royals.

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Moving to Canada

The couple revealed that to escape media attention in the UK they asked to be allowed to move abroad.

Harry said he outlined to his father a plan he and Meghan had come up with to move and continue to support the Queen in the Commonwealth.

He claims the then Prince of Wales asked him to put that plan in writing, which he initially refused to do owing to what happened with the letter to Meghan's father. However, he eventually did send the details via email, including adding that they would relinquish their titles as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex if they had to.

The couple claim that after they flew back to England from Canada in 2020 this information had been leaked to the press.

'My brother screamed at me'

After his proposal to move abroad Harry says he was called into a meeting with the Queen, his father, and Prince William at Sandringham.

He said: "I went in with the same proposal that we'd already you know, made publicly, but once I'd got there, I was given 5 options. 1 being all in, no change. 5 being all out. I chose option 3 in the meeting. Half in half out. Have our own jobs, but also work in support of the Queen. But it became very clear very quickly that that goal was not up for discussion or debate.

"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren't true, and my grandmother you know, quietly sit there and sort of take it all in. But you have to understand that from the families perspective, especially hers there are ways of doing things, and her ultimate sort of mission, goal, responsibility is the institution."

He added: "The saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother, so that he's now on the institutions side and I get, part of that I get, I understand right, that's 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."

After that bust up, Harry claims that is when he made the decision to leave the family because a story was released denying that William had bullied him and Meghan out of the family.

"They were happy to lie to protect my brother," he added, "and yet for three years they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us."

Episode 6

The sixth episode shows Harry, Meghan and Archie aboard a private jet flying from Canada to California on what they described as their "freedom flight".

After arriving in America, the couple lived in movie producer Tyler Perry's mansion for weeks, until their location was once again exposed in the press.

Harry claims not even his own family knew where her was, believing the couple to still be in Canada.

After their location was revealed, footage showed helicopters apparently circling overhead and fences being erected to keep out the paparazzi.

Meghan's miscarriage

Shortly after the couple moved into a new house in Santa Barbara, California, the duchess suffered a miscarriage, which Harry believes was caused by the stress put on her as a result of their lawsuit against the Daily Mail's parent company.

He said: "I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did. I watched the whole thing. Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was created, caused by that? Course we don't. But bearing in mind the stress that it caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw, that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her."

Prince Philip's death

Harry can be seen watching footage of black cabs in London lining The Mall as a mark of respect following the death of Prince Philip in 2021.

Speaking about his grandfather's death, Harry says: "I was actually really happy for my grandfather. He went quietly. He went peacefully. He went happily."

Asked about what it was like returning to the UK for the funeral, he adds: "It was hard, especially spending time having chats with my brother and my father who just were very much focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation.

"So none of us really wanted to have to talk about it at my grandfather's funeral, but we did. I've had to make peace with the fact that I'm probably never going to get genuine accountability or a genuine apology.

"You know, my wife and I, we're moving on. We were focused on what's coming next."

Does Harry miss anything?

Harry revealed that he does miss some things about his life back in London.

I miss the weird family gatherings when we're all sort of brought together under one roof for certain times of the year. That I miss. A big part of the institution means that I was in the UK, so I miss the UK, I miss my friends.

"I've lost a few friends in this process as well."

"I came here because I had changed. I changed to the point that I'd outgrown my environment. Therefore, this was the most obvious place to come. It's one of the places where I think my mum was probably going to end up living potentially."

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