Harry & Meghan, directed by Liz Garbus

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Part 1 of 12

Harry & Meghan, Episode 1
Transcript

This is a first-hand account of Harry & Meghan's story, told with never before seen personal archive.

All interviews were completed by August 2022.

Members of the Royal Family declined to comment on the content within this series.



[airplane engine roars]

[public address dings]

[female announcer] Attention please! This is the final call for Flight Nine...

[poignant piano music playing]



[DEPARTURES]



[WINDSOR SUITE, LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT, March 2020]

[Harry] Um... Hi. So we're here on, uh, Tues... Wednesday.
Wednesday, the something of March.
Um, we've just finished our two weeks...



[camera shutters click]

















Our final push, our last stint of royal engagements.



It's really hard to look back on it now and go, "What on earth happened?"



Like, "How did we end up here?"

[Man 1] Fair to say, Britain is in shock this morning.

[DAILY EXPRESS
Jan 9, 2020
MEGHAN MARKLE AND HARRY RESIGN FROM ROYAL FAMILY LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION]

[Woman 1] Dramatic, shocking announcement from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

[The New York Times
HARRY AND MEGHAN'S HARD EXIT]



[Man 2] Announcing they're taking a step back from royal duties.

[The Atlantic
Jan 8, 2020
Harry and Meghan Won't Play the Game]



[Woman 2] Prince Harry appears to be on a "trajectory of self-destruction."

[Daily Mail
Jan 9, 2020
QUEEN'S FURY AS HARRY AND MEGHAN SAY: WE QUIT]



[VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA]



[Meghan] H is in London and I'm here...
[sighs]
I don't even know where to begin.

[Photo Op of Harry & Meghan showing off their newborn baby]



[Meghan] Thank you.



[Harry] My job is to keep my family safe.



[Daily Mail
This was a shoddy way to treat the
Queen, writes Robert Hardman...
Yes, the monarchy will survive but
what will the true cost be of Prince
Harry and Meghan Markle turning their
backs on the Firm?
by Robert Hardman
8 January 2020]

Meghan Markle declares war on Queen telling pals 'nothing stopping her' using "Sussex Royal" brand.
I wouldn't bet on that young lady!
2:50 PM . Feb 21, 2020

But the nature of being born into this position, and with everything else that comes with it and the level of...



hate that has been stirred up in the last three years, especially against my wife,...

Meghan Markle has literally bought the race war with her to the UK. FIGHT BACK, this is insidious and what the MSM are doing here to ALL Trump supporters. They are the ones that are the real racists.
9:30 AM . Aug 1, 2019

and my son...



[Meghan] Haz, is my mom outside with Archie?

[Harry] ... I'm genuinely concerned, um, for the safety of my family.



"Stay, stay."

[Meghan] [exhales loudly]
I just really want to...
get to the other side of all of this.
Um ...
[quietly] I don't know what to say anymore.



[chuckles sadly]





[Harry] This is about duty and service.



Being part of this family, it is my duty to uncover this exploitation ...



and bribery that happens within our media.







[Meghan] Unfortunately, in not standing for something, they are destroying us.

[The Royal Engagement & Marriage of Harry & Meghan 2018]



[Harry] This isn't just about our story.





This has always been so much bigger than us.





[Woman] [Man throwing effigy of Meghan into the river] This does not represent what London stands for.



[Man] Take back control of this country.



[BELIEVE IN BRITAIN]
[17.4 MILLION VOTERS HONORED
http://www.ukunityorg.uk]

[Harry] No one knows the full truth. Um...



We know the full truth.



The institution knows the full truth.



And the media knows. They've been in on it.



[camera shutters clicking sporadically]



And I think anybody else in my situation would have done exactly the same thing.



A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SERIES

[emotive theme music playing]



A STORY SYNDICATE PRODUCTION











IN ASSOCIATION WITH ARCHEWELL PRODUCTIONS







IN ASSOCIATION WITH DIAMOND DOCS





















HARRY & MEGHAN

[emotive theme music finishes]

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Part 2 of 12



[Harry] I'm nervous. Why am I nervous?



[female interviewer] I Just want to start with this little moment.
I don't think you guys have seen this before,



and I just thought I would share it with you.

[Playing on Interviewer's Computer]

[confident]



[Woman 1] Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you, Meghan, so much.
Are you looking forward to watching the self-esteem workshop right now?

[Meghan] Yes.

[Harry] Do you remember?

[Meghan] No.

[Computer video continues:

[Woman 1] Number one song to pick you up.

[Meghan] Oh my gosh, I was just listening to it before I left!



It's a Nina Simone song
and it's called, um, "How It Feels To Be Free."

[Woman 1] Oh? No, I don't know it.

[Meghan] Oh, it's so good.

[Woman 1] Okay, I'll look that up for sure.
Fiercest female character on TV?

[Meghan] Who do I say? Olivia Pope?

[Meghan] Olivia Pope.

[Meghan] [laughs]

[Computer video continues:



[Woman 1] Prince William or Prince Harry?



[Meghan] I don't know. [laughing]

[Woman 1] [laughing] Harry.



[Meghan] Harry? Sure.

[Harry] [Laughing] "Sure."



[Meghan] Sure. I don't...



What year was that?

[Female interviewer] October 2015.



[Meghan] October 2015?

[Harry] Less than a year.

[Meghan] Before we met?

[Harry] [Nods]



[Meghan] Honey, I'm sorry.

[Harry] Less than ...



[Meghan] I of course choose you.

[Harry] [sarcastically] Okay, great!



It just again shows how little you knew.
And look at how far we've come.



[birds chirping]

[MONTECITO, CALIFORNIA, 2021]

[Meghan] [Looking at bright orange sunset] Look at that. How would you describe it, Archie?



[Archie] Like it's all done beautiful.

[Meghan] It's so beautiful.

[birds chirping]

[instrumental music plays]







[Meghan] [Laughing] Archie, are you having fun?



[Harry] This is a great love story.



The craziest thing is that... I think this love story is only just getting started.



You know, she sacrificed everything that she ever knew, the freedom that she had,
to join me in my world.



And then pretty soon after that, I end up sacrificing everything that I know
to join her in her world.

[Meghan] Is Noah there?



Good morning.

[birds chirping]

[chicken clucking]



[Female Interviewer] Why did you want to make this documentary?

[Meghan] Um...



I'm not gonna say that it's comfortable,



but when you feel like people haven't gotten any sense of who you are
for so long,



it's really nice to just be able to have the opportunity to



let people have a bit more of a glimpse into what's happened and also who we are.



[hopeful music playing]



[Harry] A friend of ours actually suggested
that we document ourselves through this period of time.



With all of the misinformation that was going on out there, especially about us,
and the departure, it seemed like a really sensible idea.



[Meghan] Is this the first video diary? I don't know.
We've talked about it. We keep talking about it because we know that... [inhales]
... right now, it might not make sense, but one day, it will make sense.



[Harry] So we're here, uh, Friday the, whatever it is, 17th April or something...



[Meghan] [To baby] Look at the snow.



[Meghan] We've been really conscious of protecting our kids as best as we can
and also understanding the role that they play
in this really historical family.



[Meghan] [Watching Harry scoot Archie around] Vroom!





[Harry] As a dad, and as parents, I think consent is a really key piece to this.



That if you have children, it should be your consent



as to what you share.



[Meghan] [sighs deeply] [picking roses in the garden] Both the babies are down. Nice, calm night.



Just picking some roses.



[Meghan] The past six years of my life, books are written about our story from people who I don't know.



Doesn't it make more sense to hear our story from us?

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[Blues guitar music playing]



[LONDON, July 2016]



[Music: Pretty words come so easy



They're no good...]

[Harry] Meghan and I met in July of 2016.





[Meghan] Right before we met, we'd gotten another season of the show Suits.

["SUITS"]



I was single for a couple of months. I was like, "This is it. We're gonna travel."



"Come on, girls. Let's go."



[Music: Oh, stop



Don't worry about it
Oh, stop...]



[Lindsay Jill Roth, Friend] In the summer of 2016, she had a few different trips planned



and she was just going to be free.







[Meghan] I was really, like, intent on being single,
and just have fun girl-time.



[Music: Seven days a week, you had ...]



[Lucy Fraser, Friend] She had planned her single-girl summer



and she had a lot of plans of going around Europe.





[Meghan] I had a career, I had my life...





I had my path.



[sighing deeply] And then came H.
I mean, he literally...
Talk about a plot twist.





[Music: Stop, stop, stop, don't worry about it
Oh, stop]





[Harry] Meghan and I met over Instagram.



I was scrolling through my feed and, uh, someone who was a friend
had this video of the two of them.



It was like a Snapchat.



[Meghan] Oh, gosh. That whole thing... There's like, dog ears ...

[Harry] With dog ears and ---

[Meghan] That's what he saw of me.



[Harry] I was like, "Who is that?"

[Meghan] It's ridiculous!

[soft instrumental music playing]

To: M
Subject: Hey x

Monday is going to be so much fun
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 (has a friend) he called me last night dying to meet you. Hehehe I might just have to set you up

[Meghan] And then she sent me an email saying,
"I know you said you're single, and a friend of mine asked about you,
and maybe you'd like to meet him."



And I said, "Who is it?" She said, "Prince Haz." I said, "Who's that?"

From: M
Subject: Rey: hey x
Who is prince haz???
Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse all technological mishaps. I'm a Luddite

[Meghan] I asked if I could see his feed.





When people say, "Did you Google him?" No.





But I... That's your homework. You're like, "Hmm."
Let me see what they're about in their feed.
Not what someone else says about them,



but what they are putting out about themselves."



That, to me, was the best barometer.



I went through it and it was just like beautiful photography





and all these environmental shots and this time he was spending in Africa...



[Harry] Phew! [Wipes his hand across his forehead]





Then we got each other's numbers. We were just constantly in touch,
and I went, "Let's meet."



[WIMBLEDON, 2016]

[Meghan] I was in London. I was going to Wimbledon.

[Jill Smoller, Friend] We were sitting in the Player Box



and it's diagonal to the Royal Box at Wimbledon.



We were talking about different dates and different people that were possibilities,



and I remember seeing an adorable actor in the front row sitting next to someone I knew.
And I'm like, "Hey, how about him?"
Um, and then I think the next day,



I found out that she was gonna be going on a date with H.

[Silver Tree, Friend] Meghan texted me from London



and said, "Silver, you're not gonna believe this."
And basically to me that she was going out on a date with him,
and we thought it was really funny.



We were like, "In what world does this happen? [laughing]

H
So come on -- what u doing tomorrow night? Hope you're Having fun over there!

M
Heading back to soho. I have a dinner tomorrow at 8 but can do drinks tomorrow night. Would that work? Maybe 6?

H
You're ON!

[instrumental music playing]



[Meghan] We met at 76 Dean Street.



[To Harry] You were late.

[Harry] Mm-hmm.

[Meghan] And I couldn't understand why he would be late.
But he kept texting me. He was like, "I'm in traffic. I'm so sorry."



[Harry] I was panicking. I was freaking out. I was, like, sweating.



[Meghan] And I didn't know him.



So I was like, "Oh, is this what he does? Got it.
Like, this I'm not doing.



[Harry] What? What is that supposed to mean?

[Meghan] One of those guys who have so much of an ego that you're not gonna...



That any girl would sit around and wait for a half hour for you.
I was just not interested in that.

[Harry] And then when I walked in, I...
A hot, sweaty, red ball of --

[Meghan] He was so sweet!



[Harry] She's like, "Oh, that's not...
That's not what you are."



[Meghan] That's not what you are.



You genuinely were, like, so embarrassed and late and...

[Music: Though I'm not a great romancer ...]

[Meghan] He was just so fun.



Just so refreshingly fun.



And that was the thing, we were like childlike together.



[Harry] [Nods his head yes.]

[Music: Anything goes...]

[We had a great chat for about an hour.

[Music: Anything goes...]

[Meghan] I left after an hour,
and, um, I told him that I had other plans.
And then I, um, called him that evening
and I was like, "I'm leaving the day after tomorrow."



"Do you wanna grab dinner tomorrow night?"
And I'm sure he thought it was so forward and American.



I'm sure he told me it was so forward and American.

[soft music playing]



Then, yeah. We went and had dinner the next night at the same place.



[Harry] [Whispering] She was late!



[Meghan] I what? I what?

[Harry] That's when you were late.

[Meghan] I was late?

[Harry] Yeah.



Remember? You came rushing in from having a shower.



[Meghan] From Wimbledon.

[Harry] Yeah. There you go.

[Meghan] Yeah.



[Harry] Not half an hour.

[Meghan] No, no, no. Like five, like--

[Harry] A mere few minutes.

[Meghan] Yeah.

[Harry] But you were quite flustered.

[Meghan] I hate being late.



[Harry] [Laughs]

[Meghan] Well, I had come back from Wimbledon and,
you know, you get all dolled up...
and I just wanted to go home and take a shower



and then run over looking more like myself.

[Harry] I was like,



I don't ... You could be as late as you want, cause I ain't moving.



I wanna see you again.

[Music: I'm in the mood...]



[Meghan] There was one photo. We just wanted to capture the feeling
of just sitting in that little restaurant and going, "Oh my gosh."



"I think we're gonna give it a go."

[Music: Honey, but when you're near me...]



[Harry] That was when it just hit me. I was like, "Okay, this girl, this woman is amazing,



is everything that I've been looking for.
And she's so comfortable and so relaxed in my company."

[Meghan] He had a list, apparently, of what he was looking for.

[Harry] Let's not go there.



[Meghan] An extensive list.

[Interviewer] What were a few things on that list?

[Harry] Not sharing the list.

[Meghan] Okay.

[Harry] Good... Nice try.

[Meghan] [Laughs]



[Harry] [Sweeping his hand up and down Meghan] This is the list.

[Meghan] Good answer.

[instrumental music playing]

[Silver] She texted me after



and she was just like, "Silver, I'm crazy about him."

[Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras, Friend] Right after they'd met, my wife, me and him, we had dinner together





and he sat like that, he looked at us and he said, "Guys, I met a girl."



"We've just met, but, um, I think this may be the one."
You could tell right away



that those were the eyes of someone that had fallen in love.



[Lucy] It was apparent to both of them very quickly that



they wanted it to be something and they needed to figure that out.



[Lindsay] I mean, she was giddy.
But I also know that she was trying to live in the moment.



She wanted to just get to know him for him.



Not for who the public thought he was.



[Harry] I think, 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 mold,



as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with.
The difference between making decisions with your head, or your heart.



And my mum certainly made most of her decisions, if not all of them, from her heart.



And I AM my mother's son.

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[camera shutters clicking]



[bell ringing]



[Royal Bellman] This afternoon, the world's press, the world's peoples,



have waited to congratulate the Princess Diana
who has issued forth with a second child.
It is a boy.



[crowd cheering]

[September 15, 1984]

[Woman] Princess Diana, with Prince Charles at her side,



gave birth Saturday to their second son,
a blue-eyed, six-pound, 14-oz boy,
who becomes third in line to the British throne.

[HOSPITAL ENTRANCE]

[Man] More than 200 people,



some of whom had waited outside the hospital all day long,



gave to Prince Charles the cheers they couldn't give in person to Princess Diana.

[Journalist] Everybody seems so happy.



[Prince Charles] Well, thank you very much. I couldn't be more delighted.



[Man] Well, we think it's smashing.

[Woman] Everyone's over the moon about it.



[Boy] I'm very happy for Lady Diana.



[Male TV presenter] Forty-two hours old and already driving the ladies wild,



Prince Harry made his first public appearance



wearing a conservative white blanket.



[Harry] Do I remember a moment when I suddenly realized that my family was different?



[Laughs] Um...
No, I think it's just...
I just think it's gradual.



[lively instrumental music playing]









I mean, there's no point that we're all sat down in the classroom



and my grandmother stands there with a long stick, and her glasses on her nose and goes, "Right. So this is what it means to be in the royal family."



That doesn't happen.

[Man] Before the Service, the immediate family were alone in the castle with just time enough for the Prince of Wales



to explain the history of their celebrated robe...



Prince Harry behaving impeccably.



[piano keyboard sounds]

[giggling]





[William] Harry!

[Prince Charles] You be quiet.



[William] Harry, don't stand on my toes.







[Diana] William, he's a typical three-year-old...



very enthusiastic,



whereas, um, perhaps Harry is more quiet and just watches.



[Diana] [to boys on piano] What, louder?

[Prince Charles] Louder.



[Diana] He's certainly a different character altogether.



[Photographer] Okay, here we go.



[photographer laughing]

[Prince Charles] He wants to go over there.

[Baby Harry crawling across the floor to the photographer]



[male TV presenter] But you can't control all of the people all of the time.



[Prince Charles] Harry! Harry!



[male TV presenter] From father, a young pianist needs a cue on where to look.



[camera shutters click]

[piano keys sounding]



[Prince Charles] Harry.



[Tries to draw the attention of Harry with a napkin over his head]



[Harry] My childhood, I remember,



was filled with laughter, filled with happiness and filled with adventure.



[male TV presenter] In their imaginations, the children were already off to a fire.



[Young Harry] A fire!



[instrumental music playing]





[Harry] I don't have many early memories of my mum.







[camera shutters clicking]



It was almost like, internally, I sort of blocked them out.













[boys laughing on water slide]



[Harry] But I always remember her laugh, her cheeky laugh.



Her saying to me, "You can get in trouble, just don't get caught."



And I'll always be that cheeky person inside.





[female TV presenter] The young prince made a pair of cardboard binoculars, determined to beat the press at their own game.

[camera shutters clicking]



[Harry] The majority of my memories are of being swarmed by paparazzi.

[lively music playing]



[Reporter] Like many British families, the Wales's like to head for the Spanish sun



every August.



Their holiday nightmare is the World's Press. An army of royal watchers are drawn each year.



[indistinct clamoring of the Press]







[camera shutters clicking]



[Harry] Rarely do we have a holiday



without someone with a camera jumping out of the bush or something.



Within the Family, within the system,



the advice that's always given is, "Don't react. Don't feed into it."





There was always public pressure, with its fair share of drama,





stress, and also tears. And witnessing those tears.



I always see it on my mum's face.



And I guess those are the moments when I thought, "Okay, hang on a little. What am I?



Who am I? What am I part of?"

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[royal band playing]



[tense music playing]









[James Holt, Executive Director, Archewell Foundation, Former Palace Spokesman (2017-2019)] The Royal Family are the most senior figures in the entire country.



They are there to represent everything that is Great Britain.



If you're British, it's very difficult to not see them almost as part of your extended family.



[indistinct cheering]

[Afua Hirsch, Journalist and Author, Brit(ish)] Certainly, as I was growing up, if you'd have asked me what it means to be British,



the institution of the monarchy, the palaces, the individual royals, the history of the Royal Family



is absolutely intimately linked with what the symbols of this nation are.



[Robert Hazell, Author, The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy] It's hard to overstate, I think, the cultural significance of the British monarchy,





partly because it's a very ancient monarchy. It's existed for over a thousand years.



[The Royal Family

William The Conqueror
1066-87]

And that longevity is multiplied



by the sheer longevity of the Queen herself.

[Male Presenter] Now follows the supreme climax of the ancient ritual.



With the Crown of England, the archbishop performs the simple yet the most significant ceremony of the queen's coronation.

[solemn music playing]



[crowd chants] Long live the Queen! Long live the Queen! Long Live the Queen!

[Queen Elizabeth] I declare before you all,



that my whole life shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great Imperial Family,



to which we all belong.





[Robert Hazell, Author, The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy] She has been Queen for more than 70 years,



and that's the longest reign that we have ever known in our history.





[crowd cheering]



[John Holt] We're in a very different generation now. As new generations come through,



people may start to question it.



And I say this with absolute pure adoration



for the family, for the people that I work with.



But when you actually put it up to pressure,



and you say that there is a family anointed by God, by blood, to rule over this country



and other countries around the world,



it is a difficult conversation to have. And so in order for the institution to survive, it has to modernize but it also needs mass popular support.

[crowd cheering]



[Robert Hazell, Author, The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy] They typically have popularity ratings between 60 and 80 percent.



These are rankings that politicians would die for.





But in order to survive in the future,



they need to maintain that popularity.



Each year, they make somewhere between two thousand and three thousand odd visits.









[indistinct conversation]



[Robert Hazell, Author, The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy] And all the royal households have press offices



to ensure that there is pretty constant publicity about the royal family.



And that it is pretty constantly good publicity.



[lively music playing]



[Afua] The Family is dependent upon the British media to communicate its message to continue guaranteeing its relevance



and presence in the British imagination, and the world.

[bell tolling]



[SWITZERLAND, 1995]



[Man] I thought he was going straight in the river.



[Male Reporter] Prince William led the royal children to a photo call arranged by palace officials. Prince Harry, and Princess Beatrice, march behind the future king, although Prince Andrew's other daughter, Princess Eugenie,



makes somewhat slower progress. The photographers and cameramen



took pictures of all the four children together.



Prince William was then asked how he was enjoying the skiing.



[Prince William] Um, yes. It will be good fun. Very good. Enjoy it.





[Harry] Paparazzi used to harass us to the point of



where we had to be forced into smiling and answering questions to the travelling press pack.



[photographer 1] Would you look at this camera please?



Just at this one I've got.



[Harry] And that made me feel really uncomfortable from the get-go.



[photographer3] Can you look this way?

[camera shutters clicking]



Hello. Just look at this.

[Young Harry] You alright, Eugenie? Beatrice, you alright?

Beatrice: Mm-hmm.

photographer2: Hello. Can we do something different?

[Harry] And then the deal was, we put our skis on, and then they'd leave us alone.



Well, yeah, some of them would.



But then the other ones would then just follow us around, either taking photographs or waiting for an accident to happen



and then pull out their cameras.



So it was never fair. It never worked.



[Robert Hazell, Author, The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy] Stories about the British Royal Family



make for very good copy, not just in Britain but around the world.





So there's a very strong incentive for photographers



to try to get unauthorized shots of members of the Royal Family because they can sell it for tens of thousands of dollars.







[Harry] And my mum did such a good job in trying to protect us.



She took it upon herself to basically confront these people.







[Princess Diana] Please leave.



As a parent, could I ask you to respect my children's space?

[Man] Yes, certainly. Yes. No problem at all.

[Princess Diana] Because I brought the children out here for a holiday.

[Man] Right.

[Princess Diana] And we'd really appreciate the space.

[Man] I understand, ma'am.

[Princess Diana] And I'm sure as a...

[Man] Is it possible to just get a picture of...

[Princess Diana] No.

[Man] ...this afternoon, and then we could totally leave you alone. Just do that and I'll leave you alone. If you just move over there, you're skiing and I'll leave you alone.

[Princess Diana] No. We've had 15 cameras following us today.

[Man] I haven't been one of those. [Princess Diana] No but, as a parent, I want to protect the children. Thank you.



[Man] Thanks. Cheers.

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[Harry] I think she had to live experience



of how she was struggling, living that life.



She felt compelled to talk about it.







[Male Reporter] Tonight on Panorama, the Princess of Wales.

[Harry] Especially in that Panorama interview.



I think we all now know that she was deceived into giving the interview but at the same time, she spoke the truth of her experience.



[BBC: Panorama, November 20, 1995] How do you feel about the way the press behaves towards you now?





[Princess Diana] I still to this day find the interest daunting and phenomenal because I actually don't like being the center of attention. When I have my public duties, I understand when I get out of the car, I'm being photographed.





[camera shutters clicking]





[somber music playing]



[Princess Diana] But actually, it's now when I go out of my door, my front door,



I'm being photographed. I never know where a lens is going to be.







[camera shutters clicking]





[crowd clamoring]

[indistinct shouting]



[Harry] My mom was harassed throughout her life with my dad.







But after they separated, the harassment went to new levels.



[December 9, 1992]

[John Major, British Prime Minister, C-Span2] It is announced from Buckingham Palace that, with regret, the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to separate.



This decision has been reached amicably and they will both continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children.



[Princess Diana] Everything changed after we separated.



And life became very difficult then for me.



[somber music playing]



[Harry] The moment that she divorced, the moment she left the Institution, then she was by herself. Yeah, she may as well have been one of the most influential, powerful women in the world,



but she was... completely exposed to this.



I saw things, I experienced things, I learned things.

[People
Aug 3, 1992

DI's PRIVATE BATTLE]

[The Sun
Sept. 1991

THE SECRET SADNESS OF PRINCESS DI]

[Life&Style
Dec 20, 2010

PRINCESS IN CRISIS]



The pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution.



I remember thinking, "How can I ever find someone who is willing and capable



to be able to withstand all the baggage that comes with being with me?"

[camera shutters clicking]

[somber music playing]

[Prince Harry] Every relationship that I had, within a matter of weeks or months,



were splattered all over the newspapers and that person's family harassed





and their lives turned upside-down.



So, you know, I mean, after one or two girlfriends, the third or fourth girlfriend will be like, "Hang on a second.



I don't know if I want this."



So when I got to meet M, I was terrified of her being driven away by the media. The same media that had driven so many other people away from me.



[soft music playing]



[Prince Harry] I knew that the only way that this could possibly work



is by keeping it quiet for as long as possible.

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[Meghan Markle] At the beginning, our relationship was this guarded little...



guarded treasure.

[Haz FaceTime]

[mobile phone ringing]



[Meghan Markle] It was long-distance from the beginning.



Everything was just texts and Facetimes and



we just talked for hours and it just felt exciting,



which is so weird because it wasn't exciting... in the way that I think people would assume that it would be.



It was just relaxed and easy.



[soft music continues]



[I want this with you NOW]



[Meghan Markle] We just got to know each other.



Truly, like any other couple, we were figuring out, like,



"What do you like to eat? What do you like to cook? What kind of movies do you like?"





[Harry] When I got to know Meghan more and more, I was like,



"Now, I'm really, like, falling in love with this girl."











[Meghan] [laughing] Oh no!

[Harry] So despite my own fear...



[Meghan laughing]





[Harry] .. I just opened my heart... to see what's going to happen.









[BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA
September 16, 2020]



[Meghan Markle] We've gone rogue.

[Prince Harry] We've gone rogue.



[both laughing]



[Meghan] [quietly] Like, I feel like we're doing something so naughty.



[WARNING
SURF SUBJECT TO UNEXPECTED LIFE THREATENING WAVES & CURRENTS
CLIMBING ON ROCKS, SWIMMING & WADING UNSAFE]

[soft music playing]



[Meghan Markle] Oh my goodness. My love.



[Harry] So much of what Meghan is, and how she is



is so similar to my mum.





She has the same compassion, she has the same empathy,



she has the same confidence.



She has this warmth about her.



[poignant music playing]

[baby babbling]

[Meghan Markle] [Looking at picture of Princess Diana] Who's that?

[baby continues babbling]



[Harry] I accept that there'll be people around the world who fundamentally disagree with what I've done and how I've done it,



but I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family.

[Meghan Markle] Hey, Grandma.

[baby babbles]

[Meghan Markle] Yeah.

[Harry] Especially after what happened to my mom.



[Meghan Markle] Yeah. That's your Grandma Diana. Yeah.

[Harry] You know, I didn't want history to repeat itself.

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[siren blaring]

[August 31, 1997]

[somber music playing]



[Male Reporter] Diana, Princess of Wales, has died in a car crash in Paris.

[Female Reporter] According to some reports, paparazzi photographers



were chasing the car in which the princess was riding apparently in an effort to get her photograph.



[female reporter2] Across the world, millions are trying to come to terms



with the awful tragedy of Diana's untimely death.





[Diana. You were a very special person & will be missed so much.]



[Earl Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's Brother] Every proprietor and editor of every publication



that has paid for intrusive and exploitative photographs of her, encouraging greedy and ruthless individuals to risk everything,



in pursuit of Diana's image, has blood on his hands today.





[Harry] When my mum died, we had two hats to wear.



One was two grieving sons wanting to cry, grieve,



and process that grief because of losing our mum. And two was the royal hat.



Show no emotion, get out there and meet the people, shake the hands.



[Prince Charles] Thank you so much, thank you.



[woman1] Harry, I'm so sorry.

[woman2] William. William.

[William] Thank you so much. Thank you.



[woman 3] Oh. Oh God, I'm gonna cry.

[Harry] The UK literally swept me and William up as their children.

[woman] Sorry. Sorry.

[Harry] An expectation to see myself and William out and about



was really hard for the two of us.



[Nicky, Harry's Childhood Friend] I remember being told by my mother the news of her passing [inhales] And then, I think like us all, we watched that funeral



and watched him walking behind the coffin.





[wistful music playing]



[Nicky] That's when you first really got to know him or saw an insight beyond a snap or a picture and felt that you knew him better than you did.





I met Harry at Eton at age 13.



We were actually in the rooms next door to each other,



so we could lean out the window and talk after lights out.



But I think as a young kid, you don't have the language to necessarily have that complicated mental health chat



beyond, like, "How are you?" "Fine." or... And you know, maybe as well, you probably veer away from having that discussion because it's such an emotional hot potato, like, you don't know the right things to say, are you gonna make it worse rather than make it better? If you say nothing,



you know, you're not at least making it worse. I believe that there was an agreement in place with the media that while they were at school, Will and Harry would be left a bit alone.





But Day One we left the house to a scrum, nothing I'd ever seen, of flashing lights and the media all there.

[camera shutters clicking]

[indistinct clamoring]



[photographer] Harry! Harry!



[Prince Harry] That's when all of the stuff that had happened to our mum started happening to us.

[thoughtful music playing]



[photographer] Harry!

[Male Reporter] Since Prince Harry has been at Eton, his father has tried to ensure he can have as normal a life as possible. But this latest story about Prince Harry is the third time



the 14-year old has made headlines in the Mirror since he started at Eton.

[NEWS OF THE WORLD
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
HARRY'S DRUGS SHAME
Charles was shocked by how often Harry used cannabis
He knew therapy with addicts would terrify him into stopping]



[Harry] Not every story was false.

[People weekly
DRINKS, DRUGS & PRINCE HARRY
Alarmed by revelations of his pot smoking and wild partying, Charles and William try to rein in the rowdy 17-year-old]

[The Daily Mail
July 27, 2004
Hellraiser Harry
Women, cigarettes and booze (plus a raucous water fight) for the prince of wild parties]



But there was a lot of typical exaggeration and rehashing.



"He's bouncing between the walls. He's taking drսgs. He's drinking. He's out late. He's night-clubbing. He's got a girlfriend here. He's got a girlfriend there. What's going on?



You know, there's a difference between having to accept, Okay, we have this position in this family and therefore there is going to be a level of interest, and being swarmed by paparazzi, and chasing you in cars through red lights.



And then chasing you down the road on foot, which is what happened



probably about 30 or 40 times when I was younger.



[camera shutters clicking]

[paparazzi clamoring]

[Prince Harry] It was too much.



[female Reporter] Prince Harry got into a scuffle with photographers after he left a nightclub early this morning.

[Evening Standard
London, Thursday 21, October 2004
HARRY SNAPS
Prince hits out as photographers crowd him at club
By Robert Jobson and Tariq Tahir
PRINCE HARRY was involved in a fracas with photographers early this morning]



[female reporter 2] Within hours of the scuffle it was headlining the tabloids. Harry lashed out yelling, "Why don't you just leave me alone?!"



[camera shutters clicking]



[Harry] Everything that was happening in the UK was so intense.





I was trying to balance the whole experience of being a young boy, who was trying to deal with the loss of his mom



without much support or help or guidance. It didn't seem right. It didn't seem fair.

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[people singing in Sotho]



[LESOTHO
2004]





[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] Harry came to Lesotho in 2004.



In the beginning, he was a young man straight from Eton, having had massive negative headlines about him.



I didn't know the boy



but I thought, "Well, let's see what we can do with this young man."





[string folk music playing]



[Prince Harry] They graze on ... The herds graze on the common land?

[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] Common land, yeah.

[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] We were feeling each other out, finding out where we were comfortable with each other.



[Prince Harry] The first time I met Prince Seeiso, it was amazing. We jumped on horses and rode off to his cattle post.



[string folk music continues]



[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] I think he came here wanting to have time out



from that very aggressive treadmill.



I felt a warmth and acceptance that,







"Okay, I'm here in Lesotho.



I may not know about Lesotho, and I'm here to learn.



I'm not here to tell."



[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] [speaking Sotho]

[Prince Harry] [speaking Sotho]



[crowd cheering]



[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] That kind of immediate reaction, not only to me but to the community.



I could see that Harry is very much his mother.

[ interviewer] How much of an inspiration has your mother been in what you're doing here?



[Prince Harry] Um, massively. Mine, as well as Seeiso's mother.



Both our mothers were hugely connected with AIDS,



especially the orphan children from that itself.



His mother died shortly before I met him.



So, bearing in mind we both lost our mums



it didn't take very long until we became like brothers.



[Prince Harry] Hey, everyone.



[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] Harry visited almost on a yearly basis after that.





[2008]



[Harry] I was 18 years old and wanted to go and somehow carry my mom's torch and try to keep her legacy alive and try to make her proud.

[2010]

[Cutting a ribbon]



[woman] Officially opened by Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry, the founders of Sentebale.



[2010]



[Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, Friend] Being allowed to come here and be himself,





for me, I've seen a boy grow into a solid man.



We even gave him a name, actually. A Sosotho name.



Mahale, which means "warrior."



Harry is a warrior in spirit,



and he's a warrior in character.

[Harry] Lesotho gave me the space and the freedom



to breathe, to live,



and to grow.

[Holding a child]



[Harry blowing raspberry]



[both laughing]



[Man] Big smile. [laughs]









[Harry] I went to Africa, sometimes three months at a time.



[Speaking at a podium]





Botswana is a country very close to my heart.



The fact that I spend more time here than at home worries my father a lot.

[crowd laughing]



[Harry] I've got a second family out there.



A group of friends that literally brought me up.





For me, it's always been quite special. So it was absolutely critical to share it with Meg.

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[car honking]

[traffic noises]



[TORONTO
Summer, 2016]

[Meghan Markle] That summer,



I was going to be on hiatus from work but I had travel plans. And a cast mate of mind had said,



"Just make sure in your travels plans that you make room for magic."



And then as we were talking about, "When are we gonna see each other next?" He said, "I have to go to Africa. I'm doing some conservation work." He said, "I have one week off." I said, "I have one week off." And it was the same week. So he said, "Do you want to come to Botswana?"



[laughing] I said, "Let me think about it." And then I did.



[lively upbeat music playing]

[helicopter whirring]

[BOTSWANA
August 2016]



[Harry] I was astonished that she said yes. This woman that I've only met twice. She's coming to Botswana



and we're going to be living in a tent for five days. Wow.



[Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras, Friend] They were both gonna go to Africa and spend, you know, real time together.



So he said, "This is either going to work or not because we're going to be together 24/7.



[Meghan Markle] I'm getting on the plane and I'm going to the middle of the bush?



What? What am I doing?



Like, what if we don't like each other... and then we're stuck in the middle of the bush in a tent?



[Lindsay] It was a leap.



But I think in her heart she just knew that she had to do that with him.





[Meghan Markle] So I get there. This is the first time I've seen him in a month.



It was very awkward at first. Like, "Oh God, do we kiss? Do we...?"



And I just remembered he handed me a chicken sandwich.



[both laughing]

[Meghan Markle] Like, oh God.

[both laughing]



[Prince Harry] Then we jumped in a Land Cruiser and off we went.



To start with, we were seated next to each other.



And then we progressed to holding hands.



And then we squeeze in a kiss. And amid the bumps,



and then, everything felt totally normal and natural.



[lively upbeat music continues]



[Prince Harry] We had to get to know each other before the rest of the world and before the media sort of joined in.









[Meghan Markle] It was all so overwhelming



to be out there like in our little tent



and in the middle of the night, and hear this rustling and look and see a shadow and go like, "What's that?"



It's like an elephant munching leaves above the tent in the shadows. I'm like, "Are we safe? Is it fine..." He's like, "We're fine. I promise I'll keep you safe."



And I believed him.



[Prince Harry] You put a lot of faith and a lot of trust in me.



[Meghan Markle] I did.

[Prince Harry] On that trip.



[Harry] It just felt so right and it felt so normal.



[Meghan Markle] We could both just be completely ourselves.



There's no distraction. There's no cellphone reception.



There's no mirror. There's no bathroom. There was no, "How do I look?"



Thankfully, we really liked each other. [laughing]