After months of anticipation and reports of the royals absolutely spiraling into a chaotic panic, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Netflix docuseries has arrived. And if you haven’t had time to watch but desperately want to catch up on all the royal drama, we’ve rounded up the biggest revelations from both parts—including comments from Samantha Markle’s biological daughter, unseen photos of Harry proposing to Meghan, some kinda yikes musings about Kate Middleton and Prince William, and Harry’s claim that his brother shouted at him.
Harry Accused William of Shouting at Him
This moment happened while Harry was recalling a meeting with his family about his and Meghan’s decision to step away from senior royal duties. “It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that simply weren’t true,” he said. “And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and sort of take it all in.”
Harry later added, “The saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother. So that he’s now on the institution side. And 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 the continuation of the institution.”
Harry Claimed the Palace Faked a Joint Statement
Remember when the palace put out a joint statement from William and Harry amid reports that Will was “bullying” his brother out of the royal family? A reminder:
Yeah, well apparently the statement was released without Harry’s knowledge or permission.
“I got in the car after the meeting,” he said. “I was told about a joint statement that had been put out in my name and in my brother’s name, squashing the story about him bullying us out of the family. I couldn’t believe it, no one had asked me. No one had asked my permission to put my name to a statement like that. I rang M and I told her, and she burst into floods of tears because within four hours they were happy to lie to protect my brother and yet for three years they were never willing to tell the truth to tell us.”
Harry Accused William of Briefing the Press Against Him
First, Harry gave a brief explainer on the palace’s relationship with the press, saying, “There’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories. So, if the comms team want to be able to remove a negative story about their principle, they will trade and give you something about someone else’s principle. So the offices end up working against each other. It’s kind of a weird understanding or acceptance that happens. And you can always say, ‘I didn’t know about this.’ Or, ‘This would never happen. Are you suggesting that I condone this?’ It’s like no, but what I am asking is have you done anything to stop it? And the answer is no.”
Harry then said that he and William “made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office,” which William broke. As Harry put it, “I would far rather get destroyed by the press than play along with this game or this business of trading. And to see my brother’s office copy the very same thing that we promised the two of us would never ever do, that was heartbreaking.”
We Saw William Text Harry After His Oprah Interview
Cameras were around to capture the exact moment that Harry got a text from his brother about the Sussexes’ Oprah interview—prompting Meghan to get off the phone with Tyler Perry. We didn’t see the text, but we did see Harry tell Meghan, “I wish I knew what to do.”
Harry Implied Kate and Wills Were Jealous of Meghan
“The issue is, when someone who’s marrying in, who should be a supporting act, is then stealing the limelight, or is doing the job better than the person who was born to do this, that upsets people,” Harry said. “It shifts the balance, because you’ve been lead to believe the only way that your charities can succeed, the only way that your reputation can be grown or improved, is if you’re in the front page of those papers. But the media are the ones who choose who to put on the from page.”
Meghan Implied That Kate and Wills Didn’t Want to Hug Her
Meghan spoke about meeting Prince William and Kate Middleton for the first time at Prince Harry’s Kensington Palace cottage—and implied they weren’t into her attempt to hug them, though she also noted that an unexpected hug can be “really jarring” for a lot of British people.
“Even when Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped jeans and I was barefoot,” Meghan said. “Like I was a hugger, I’ve always been a hugger. I didn’t realize that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits. I guess I started to understand really quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside.”
Harry Proposed to Meghan Outside With a Ton of Candles
Harry said he took Meghan to the garden near his cottage at Kensington Palace and surprised her by getting down on one knee with a buncha candles surrounding him. The docuseries provided pics from the sweet moment (below!) and we even got to see Meghan calling a friend and saying, “Oh my god Jess, Jess, Jess, Jess, it’s happening it’s happening it’s happening, oh my god, he told me not to peek, oh my god.”
Meghan and Harry Met Thanks to Instagram
“Meghan and I met over Instagram. I was scrolling through my feed and someone who was a friend had a video of the two of them, like a Snapchat,” Harry explained. “With dog ears. That was the first thing. I was like, who is that?”
Said friend immediately reached out to Meghan, writing the following email:
“Between you and I, thought you might want to know this being newly single and all. I put our Snapchat on Instagram and Prince Haz follows me (he’s a friend) he called me last night dying to meet you. Hehehe, I might just have to set you up.”
Speaking of Insta…We Saw Harry’s Grid
Lotta nature pics!
Harry Implied That Other Royal Men Didn’t Marry for Love
“For so many people in the family, especially obviously the men, there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone who would fit the mould, as opposed to somebody who you are perhaps destined to be with,” Harry said. “The difference between making decisions with your head or your heart. My mom certainly made most of her decisions if not all of them from her heart, and I am my mother’s son.”
Meghan Said She Intentionally Never Wore Color Around the Royals
After the series showed her wearing a bright red dress to the Salute to Freedom Gala in NYC, Meghan explained, “Most of the time that I was in the U.K., I rarely wore color. There was thought in that. To my understanding, you cant ever wear the same color as Her Majesty if there’s a group event, but then you also shouldn’t be wearing the same color as one of the other, more senior members of the family. So I was like, well what’s a color that they’ll probably never wear? Camel? Beige? White?”
She went on to say, “So I wore a lot of muted tones, but it also was so I could just blend in. Like, I’m not trying to stand out here. So there’s no version of me joining this family and trying to not do everything I could to fit in. I don’t want to embarrass the family.”
Harry Said Wearing a Nazi Uniform Was the Biggest Mistake of His Life, and He Discussed “Unconscious Bias”
Harry recalled wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party in 2005, calling it “one of the biggest mistakes in my life” and saying he “felt so ashamed afterwards.” He added that he spoke to the Chief Rabbi in London afterwards and travelled to Berlin to speak with a Holocaust survivor: “I could’ve just ignored it and probably made the same mistakes over and over again in my life, but I learned from that.”
Harry also spoke about unconscious bias within the royal family as the documentary delved into racist imagery within royal institutions and Princess Michael of Kent’s “blackamoore” brooch, saying it’s “a constant work in progress for everyone, including me.”
Meghan Couldn’t Invite Her Niece to Her Wedding
Meghan is close to her niece Ashleigh (Samantha Markle’s biological daughter) but couldn’t invite her to the royal wedding due to Samantha’s behavior.
“How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding but the half-sister’s daughter is?” Meghan said regarding her comms team’s position. “So with Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding. I was in the car with H, and I called her and we had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were being given and why this assessment was being made and…and that’s painful.”
Meanwhile, Ashleigh tearfully recalled, “I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from. To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that’s so important to me was impacted in that way…to feel like because of her it was taken away, has been hard.”
Princess Diana’s Relationship With the Paparazzi Hugely Impacted Harry
“Rarely did we have a holiday without someone with a camera jumping out of a bush or something. Within the family, within the system, the advice that’s always given is ‘don’t react, don’t feed into it,’” Prince Harry explained. “There was always a public pressure, with its fair share of drama, stress, and also tears. And witnessing those tears. I could always see it on my mum’s face. And I guess those are the moments where I thought ‘hang on, wait a second, maybe. What am I? Who am I? What am I part of?'”
Mehera Bonner is a celebrity and entertainment news writer who enjoys Bravo and Antiques Roadshow with equal enthusiasm, She was previously entertainment editor at Marie Claire and has covered pop culture for over a decade.
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