The story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is one that we all think we know.
Meghan and Harry later sat down withOprah Winfrey for an in-depth interviewabout their experience.
Now, the two star in a newNetflix seriesabout their experience.
Needless to say, things got a little emotional.
Even as a child, Harry was forced to either ignore or pose for the paparazzi.
“And that made me feel really uncomfortable from the get-go.”
“My mum did such a good job trying to protect us,” said Harry.
“She took it upon herself to basically confront these people.”
As Harry explained, his mother’s life changed when she and Prince (now King) Charles separated.
“My mum was harassed throughout her life with my dad,” said Harry.
“But after they separated, the harassment went to new levels.”
Suddenly, she was unprotected from the ruthless British press.
“The U.K. literally swept me and William up as their children.
We then see the famous clip of Harry walking behind Diana’s coffin.
It was heartbreaking to see how the young William and Harry were given no room to grieve.
Instead, they were hounded by the press just like their mother before them.
As Meghan explained, she had to confront racism from a young age.
When she was still in school, she once heard a woman call her mother the N-word.
“I genuinely didn’t think about,” Meghan said.
And Harry explained that he was also unprepared.
“And I was like, ‘Whoa.'”
What they didn’t understand, he said, was the racial element.
Both experienced their parents’ separation.
As the documentary revealed, the impact was huge on both of them.
Things got particularly emotional when Meghan recalled a poem she wrote for a school assignment.
“And I remember this poem to this day.”
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that bad, but oftentimes it makes me sad.
Instead, she lived a happy, normal life.
“She had so much freedom,” said Humphrey.
“She had such a beautiful life before everything exploded.”
Looking back, it’s definitely painful to see what Meghan lost by marrying into the royal family.
And it only got worse and worse.
“It really did take a dark turn quickly,” said one of Meghan’s friends.
It started to feel a little bit dangerous for her.”
Eventually, Meghan received a death threat and was finally given her own security detail.
It’s hard to imagine how scary and isolating that time must have been for Meghan.
In fact, some of the early moments between the royal couple seemed to be utterly joyful.
In fact, it was like something out of a rom-com.
“From my perspective, I fell head over heels in love with her,” Harry gushed.
Harry then recalled how he proposed.
It happened in 2017 after Harry had asked permission from his grandmother, the queen.
The proposal itself was pretty low key Harry popped the question after a quiet dinner at home.
“Of course I got down on one knee,” said Harry.
“I was just like, ‘Yes!’
We were so joyful and excited,” added Meghan.
“I was like, ‘Ugh, we’re doing this!'”
And it’s even sadder to watch the proposal knowing what happened to the couple next.
However, when it came to Harry and Meghan, this contract really took its toll.
It’s a real cutthroat business.
And with Meghan there was no limit."
So, they started contacting her friends and family.
For Meghan, seeing Samantha supposedly selling these fabrications to the press was devastating.
“I wanted a sister,” she said sadly.
The whole incident even led to Samantha becoming estranged from her own daughter, Ashleigh.
Meghan and Ashleigh had been close prior to Meghan meeting Harry.
Apparently, after the engagement, Samantha tried to turn her daughter against Meghan.
“What was communicated to me was maybe some resentment,” Ashleigh said in the docuseries.
There’s some people you just can’t reason with."
However, he hasn’t always been without fault.
“It’s a constant work in progress for everybody including me,” said Harry.
“It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life,” said Harry somberly.
“I felt so ashamed afterwards.”
Naturally, it was more than a little overwhelming for the princess-to-be.
“My impression was that her relationships were being managed on some level.”
At the time, Meghan explained, there was just one press person for the four younger royals.
She was told not to invite Ashleigh to the wedding.
Meghan had to call her and explain why she couldn’t come.
“And that’s painful,” Meghan said.
Even though he denied the rumor, Meghan had her doubts.
Things got even worse when Tom stopped answering Meghan’s calls and instead started speaking to TMZ.
“I’m finding out that you’re coming to our wedding through a tabloid,” Meghan said.
“And then suddenly they were saying he was in the hospital.”
Meghan couldn’t reach her father then, she became convinced someone else was texting from his phone.
“It’s incredibly sad what happened,” said Harry.
“It was very embarrassing for the [royal] family,” the Duchess of Sussex explained.
To appease her in-laws, Meghan wrote her father a letter.
Once she mailed it, however, things started to go from bad to worse.
Per Meghan’s account in “Harry & Meghan,” Tom never signed for the letter.
Instead, it was intercepted by a third party.
Shortly after, a redacted version of the letter was published in the Daily Mail.
“It was horrendous,” Meghan recalled.
Prince Harry and Meghan sued the Daily Mail in retaliation and eventually won.
“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did,” he said.
What’s more, Harry said that he considered the content of the statement to be untrue.
“They were happy to lie to protect my brother,” he said.
Earlier that day, Harry alleged that his brother had actually screamed at him.
Here was a woman who just looked like most of the people in the Commonwealth."
Meghan’s marriage to Prince Harry was hugely symbolic.
Consequently, many royal fans found it heartbreaking to watch Meghan leave the palace.
