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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Harry, Meghan vent grievances in final Netflix episodes

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry at Windsor Castle.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry at Windsor Castle.

Kirsty O'Connor

Prince Har­ry and his wife, Meghan, vent their griev­ances against the British monar­chy in the sec­ond half of their Net­flix doc­u­men­tary se­ries re­leased Thurs­day, which in­cludes Har­ry de­scrib­ing how his old­er broth­er shout­ed at him dur­ing a meet­ing and Meghan talk­ing about want­i­ng to end her life as she strug­gled to cope with tox­ic press cov­er­age.

The cou­ple have de­tailed their ex­pe­ri­ences lead­ing to their de­ci­sion to step away from roy­al du­ties and make a new start in the Unit­ed States in Har­ry & Meghan, a six-part se­ries. The first three in­stall­ments, re­leased last week, fo­cused on the British me­dia’s cov­er­age of the cou­ple and the way it was in­flu­enced by racism.

The fi­nal three episodes see Har­ry, 38, di­rect­ing more of his ire at Prince William, now heir to the throne, and speak­ing in more de­tail about how his re­la­tion­ship with the roy­al house­hold broke down.

He re­count­ed how William lashed out at him dur­ing a roy­al sum­mit at San­dring­ham Cas­tle in Jan­u­ary 2020 to talk about Har­ry and Meghan’s plan to step down as se­nior roy­als and move away.

“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 qui­et­ly sit there and sort of take it all in,” Har­ry said.

The roy­al said he and Meghan’s plan to stay “half in, half out” of roy­al life was swift­ly re­ject­ed.

Else­where in the se­ries, Meghan, 41, says she thought about killing her­self be­fore she and Har­ry de­cid­ed to move to Amer­i­ca. “It was like ‘All of this will stop if I am not here,’” she said.

Har­ry added that he be­lieved the Mail on Sun­day’s pub­li­ca­tion of a let­ter Meghan wrote her es­tranged fa­ther, Thomas Markle, con­tributed to her hav­ing a mis­car­riage. Meghan lat­er sued the Mail’s pub­lish­er and won.

“I be­lieve my wife suf­fered a mis­car­riage be­cause of what the Mail did,” Har­ry said. “Bear­ing in mind the stress that caused, the lack of sleep and the tim­ing of the preg­nan­cy ... that mis­car­riage was cre­at­ed by what they were try­ing to do to her.”

Har­ry stressed it was ul­ti­mate­ly his de­ci­sion, not Meghan’s, to leave the UK. “I said that we need to get out of here,” he said.

Palace of­fi­cials have not com­ment­ed on the se­ries.

The pro­duc­tion is Har­ry and Meghan’s lat­est ef­fort to tell their own sto­ry af­ter the cou­ple stepped back from roy­al life in ear­ly 2020 and moved to the wealthy South­ern Cal­i­for­nia en­clave of Mon­tecito. Lu­cra­tive con­tracts with Net­flix and Spo­ti­fy have helped fi­nance their life on an es­tate over­look­ing the Pa­cif­ic Ocean.

The Net­flix se­ries has come out at a cru­cial mo­ment for Britain’s monar­chy. King Charles III, Har­ry’s fa­ther, is try­ing to show that the in­sti­tu­tion re­mains rel­e­vant af­ter the death of Queen Eliz­a­beth II, whose per­son­al pop­u­lar­i­ty damped crit­i­cism of the crown dur­ing her 70-year reign.

Har­ry’s 2018 mar­riage to the for­mer Meghan Markle, a bira­cial Amer­i­can ac­tress, was once seen as a pub­lic re­la­tions coup for the roy­al fam­i­ly, boost­ing the monar­chy’s ef­fort to move in­to the 21st Cen­tu­ry by mak­ing it more rep­re­sen­ta­tive of a mul­ti­cul­tur­al na­tion.

But the fairy­tale, punc­tu­at­ed with a horse-drawn car­riage ride and lav­ish wed­ding at Wind­sor Cas­tle, soon un­rav­elled amid re­lent­less me­dia at­ten­tion, in­clud­ing al­le­ga­tions that Meghan was self-cen­tered and bul­lied her staff.

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