Harry & Meghan (2022) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
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[airplane roars overhead]
[public address dings]
[female announcer] Attention please!
This is the final call for Flight Nine
[poignant piano music playing]
Um
[hesitating] Hi. So we're here
on er, Tues Wednesday.
Wednesday, the something of March.
Um, we've just finished, um, two weeks
[camera shutters click]
[Harry] 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?"
[male TV presenter1] fair to say
Britain is in shock this morning
[female TV presenter1] dramatic
and shocking announcement
from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
[male TV presenter2] I'm seeing them
taking a step back from royal duties.
[female TV presenter] Prince Harry appears
to be on a trajectory of self destruction.
H is in London and I'm here
[sighs]
I don't even know where to begin.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
[Harry] My job is to keep my family safe.
But the nature of being born
into this position,
amid everything else
that comes with it and the level of
hate being stirred up in the last
three years, especially against my wife
and my son.
[Meghan] Haz, is my mom
outside with Archie?
[Harry] I'm generally concerned
for the safety of my family.
Stay.
[exhales loudly]
I just really want to
get to the other side of all of this.
Um,
[in a lowered voice]
I don't know what to say anymore.
[titters]
[Harry] This is about duty
and service, and I feel
as though being part of this family,
it is my duty to uncover this exploitation
and bribery that happens within our media.
Unfortunately, in not standing
for something, they are destroying us.
[Harry] This isn't just about our story.
This has always been
so much bigger than us.
[woman] This does not represent
what London stands for
[man] take back control of this country
[Harry] No one knows the full truth.
We know the full truth.
The institution knows the full truth,
and the media knows the full truth
'cause 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.
[somber music ends]
[emotive theme music playing]
[emotive theme music finishes]
[Harry] Nervous. Why am I nervous?
[female interviewer] I just want to start
with this little moment.
I don't think you guys
have done this before.
And I just thought
I would share it with you.
[woman1] Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you, Meghan, so much.
Are you looking forward to watching
The South to see more right now?
[Meghan] Yes.
- Do you remember?
- No.
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,
"How it feels to be free."
- Oh? No, I don't know it.
- Oh, it's so good.
- I like this song.
- Okay, I'll look that up for sure.
[female TV presenter]
Fiercest female character on TV?
Who do I say? Olivia Pope?
[Meghan] Olivia Pope.
[laughs]
Prince William or Prince Harry?
- I don't know.[laughing]
- [laughing]
Harry.
Harry? Sure.
[laughing]
- Sure.
- Sure. I don't
What year was that?
[female interviewer] It's October 2015.
- [Meghan] October 2015?
- Less than a year.
[Meghan] Before we met?
- Honey, I'm sorry.
- Less than
- I of course choose you. [laughing]
- [sarcastically] Oh okay, great!
It just again shows how little you knew.
And look at how far we've come.
[birds chirping]
[Meghan] Look at that.
How would you describe it, Archie?
[Archie] Well, it's all done beautiful.
[Meghan] It's so beautiful.
- [birds chirping]
- [instrumental music resumes]
[Meghan laughing]
Archie, you're 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 ended up sacrificing everything 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?
Um
I'm not gonna say that it's comfortable,
but when you feel like people haven't got
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 piano 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.
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.
So we're here, Friday the,
whatever, 17th April or something
[Meghan] Look at the snow.
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.
Vroom!
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.
[sighs deeply]
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?
[Blues guitar music playing]
Pretty words come so easy ♪
Then all good ♪
[Harry] Meghan and I met in July of 2016.
[Meghan] Right before we met,
we'd gotten another season
of the show, Suits.
Then, I was single for a couple of months.
I was like,
"This is it. We're gonna travel.
Come on, girls. Let's go."
Oh, stop,
Don't worry about it. Ooh stop ♪
[Lindsay] In the summer of 2016,
she had a few different trips planned
and she was just going to be free.
I was really, like,
intent on being single,
and just have fun girl-time.
[Lucy] 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.
Stop stop stop. Don't worry about it.
Oh, stop stop stop Don't ♪
[Harry] Meghan and I met over Instagram.
I was scrolling through my feed
and someone who was a friend
had this video of the two of them,
like a Snapchat and um, it's
Oh gosh. Isn't that whole thing,
it's got like doggy ears
- [Harry]with doggy ears and
- [Meghan] That's what he saw of me.
That was the first thing.
I was like, "Who is that?"
[laughing] That's ridiculous.
[soft instrumental music playing]
[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?" And she said,
"It's Prince Haz." I said, "Who's that?"
[keyboard clicking]
[Meghan] I asked if I could see his feed.
So that's the thing. 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
Phew.
[Harry] Then we got each others'
numbers. We were just constantly in touch,
and I went, "Let's meet."
[Meghan] I was in London,
I was going to Wimbledon.
[instrumental music playing]
[Jill] 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
sitting next to someone I knew.
So I'm like, "Hey, how about him?"
And then I think the next day,
I found out that
she was going on a date with H.
[Silver] Meghan texted me from London
and said, "Silver,
you're not gonna believe this."
And basically, told 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]
[instrumental music continues]
[instrumental music playing]
[Meghan] We met at 76 Dean Street.
- You were late.
- Mm-hmm.
[Meghan] And I couldn't understand
why he would be late.
But he kept texting. He was like,
"I'm in traffic. I'm so sorry."
I was panicking. I was freaking out.
I was, like, sweating.
[Meghan] Then I didn't know him.
So I was like, "Oh,
is this what he does? Got it.
Like, this I'm not doing.
- I'm not gonna sit"
- What? What's that supposed to mean?
Like, you're one of those guys
who have so much of an ego
that you're not gonna that any girl
would sit waiting for a half hour for you.
I was just not interested in that.
And then when I walked in, I
- a hot, sweaty, red ball of mess
- You were just so sweet.
She's like, "Oh, that's not
that's not what you are"
That's not what you are.
- [Harry] I'm so sorry.
- You genuinely were,
- like, so embarrassed and late and
- [Harry snorts]
Though I'm not a great romancer ♪
He was just so fun.
Just so refreshingly fun.
And that was the thing,
we were like childlike together.
Anything goes ♪
[Harry] We had a great chat
for about an hour.
I left after an hour,
and um, I told him that I had other plans.
Then I called him that evening
and 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.
[whispering] She was late.
I what?
Actually, you were late.
- I was late?
- Yeah.
Remember? You came
rushing in from having a shower.
- From Wimbledon.
- Yeah. There you go.
- Yeah.
- Not half an hour.
- No. Like five, like
- A mere few minutes.
- But you were quite flustered.
- I hate being late.
[Harry laughs]
Well, I had come back from Wimbledon and,
you know, when you get all dolled up
I wanted to go home and take a shower
and then run over
looking more like myself.
I don't You could be as late
as you want, I ain't moving.
I wanna see you again.
[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."
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."
He had a list, apparently,
of what he was looking for.
Let's not go there.
An extensive list.
[interviewer] What were
a few things on that list?
- Not sharing the list.
- [interviewer] Okay.
- Good, nice try. [laughing]
- [Meghan laughing]
This is the list.
Good answer.
[instrumental music playing]
[Silver] She texted me after
and she was just like,
"Silver, I'm crazy about him."
[Ignacio] 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
I think this may be the one."
You could tell right away that those were
the eyes of someone who'd 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] And 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.
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 in 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 mom made most of her decisions,
if not all of them, from her heart.
And I am my mother's son.
[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]
[female TV presenter] Princess Diana
with Prince Charles at her side
gave birth on Saturday
to their second son,
a blue-eyed, six-pound, 14-oz boy who
becomes 3rd in line to the British throne.
[male TV presenter] More than 200 people,
some of whom
had waited outside the hospital all day
gave to Prince Charles the cheers they
couldn't give in person to Princess Diana.
[journalist] Everybody seems
to be so happy today.
Well, thank you very much.
I couldn't be more delighted.
We think it's smashing.
Everyone's so over the moon about it.
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 outing
wearing a conservative white blanket.
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]
[Harry] I mean, there's no point that
we're all sat down in the classroom
and my grandmother stands there with a
long stick, glasses on her nose and goes,
"Right. So this is what
it means to be in the royal family."
That doesn't happen.
[male TV presenter] Before the Service,
immediate family were alone in the castle
with just time enough
for the Prince of Wales
to explain the history
of the celebrated robe
Prince Harry behaving impeccably.
- [piano keyboard sounds]
- [giggling]
- Harry!
- You be quiet.
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] What, louder?
- [Charles] Louder.
He's certainly
a different character altogether.
- [Diana] Perhaps somewhere
- [Charles] Okay, here we go.
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [Charles laughing]
[Charles] You want it with him over there.
[indistinct mutter]
[male TV presenter] But you can't
control all of the people all of the time.
Harry!
[male TV presenter] From father, a young
pianist needs a cue on where to look.
- [camera shutters click]
- [piano keys sounding]
- Tsk.
- [photographer] Harry.
[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.
[little Harry] A fire!
[instrumental music playing]
[Harry] I don't have many
early memories of my mom.
[camera shutters clicking]
It was almost like, internally,
I sort of blocked them out.
[laughing]
[Harry] But I always remember
her laugh, her cheeky laugh.
I always say, "You can
get in trouble, but 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]
[male TV presenter]
Like many British families,
the Wales's like to head
for 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 mom's face.
And I guess those are the moments when
I thought, "Hang on a little. What am I?
Who am I? What am I part of?"
[royal band playing]
[tense music playing]
[James Holt] The Royal Family are
the most senior figures in the 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]
Certainly, as I was growing up, if you'd
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] It's hard to overstate,
I think, the cultural significance
of the British monarchy,
partly because it's an ancient monarchy.
It's existed for over a thousand years.
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.
[somber music playing]
[crowd chants] 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] She has been Queen
for more than 70 years,
and that's the longest reign
we've 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]
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 between
two thousand and three thousand visits.
[indistinct conversation]
[Robert] 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]
[man] thought he was going
straight in the river.
[clears throat]
[male reporter] Prince William
led the royal children
to a photo call
arranged by palace officials.
Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice
march behind the future king
although Prince Andrew's
other daughter, Princess Eugenie
makes somewhat slower progress.
[man1] The photographers and cameramen
took pictures
of all the four children together.
Prince William was then asked
how he was enjoying the skiing.
Um, yes. I went fine.
Very good. I enjoy it.
[Harry] Paparazzi used to
harass us to the point
where we had to be forced into smiling
and answering questions
to the travelling press pack.
[photographer1] Would you look
at this camera please?
Just keep this one
on hold for a little bit.
[photographer2] William, will you help us?
[Harry] And that made me feel
really uncomfortable from the get-go.
- [photographer3] Can you look this way?
- [camera shutters clicking]
[man3] Hello. Just look at this.
[woman] 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
just follow us around,
either taking photographs or
just waiting for an accident to happen
and then pull out their cameras.
So it was never fair and it never worked.
[Robert] 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.
[camera shutters clicking]
My mom did such
a good job in trying to protect us.
She took it upon herself
to basically confront these people.
Please leave.
As a parent, could I ask you
to respect my children's space?
[man] Yes, certainly.
Yes. No problem at all.
[Diana] Because I brought
the children out here for a holiday.
[man] Right.
[Diana] And we'd
really appreciate the space.
[man] I understand, ma'am.
[Diana] And I'm sure as a
[man] Is it possible
to just get a picture of
- [Diana] No.
- [man] this afternoon,
and then we could totally leave you alone.
If you just move over there, you're skiing
- and I'll leave you alone.
- [Diana] No.
We've had 15 cameras following us today.
- [man] I haven't been one of those.
- [Diana] No but,
as a parent, I want
to protect the children. Thank you.
[man] Thanks. Cheers.
[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
she was deceived into giving the interview
but at the same time,
she spoke the truth of her experience.
How do you feel about the way
the press behaves towards you now?
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]
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]
- [voice1 in crowd] Yeah, I know her.
- [voice2 in crowd] Alright.
[Harry] My mom was harassed
throughout her life with my dad.
But after they separated,
the harassment went to new levels.
[John Major] 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.
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 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.
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]
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]
I knew the only way
that this could possibly work
is by keeping it quiet
for as long as possible.
[Meghan] At the beginning,
our relationship was this guarded little
guarded treasure.
[mobile phone ringing]
[Meghan] 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]
[Meghan] 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.
[Meghan] We've gone rogue.
We've gone rogue.
[both laughing]
[in a lowered voice] Like, I feel like
we're doing something so naughty.
[soft music playing]
Oh my goodness. My love.
[Harry] So much
of what Meghan is, and how she is
is so similar to my mom.
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] 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] Hey, Grandma.
[baby babbles]
[Meghan] Yeah.
[Harry] Especially after
what happened to my mom.
[Meghan] Yeah.
That's your Grandma Diana. Yeah.
[Harry] You know, I didn't want
history to repeat itself.
[siren blaring]
[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.
[Earl Spencer] 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 mom died,
we had two hats to wear.
One was two grieving sons
wanting to cry, grieve,
and process that grief
because of losing our mom.
And two was the royal hat, no emotion,
get out there, meet people, shake hands.
Thank you so much, thank you.
- [woman1] Harry, I'm so sorry.
- [woman2] I'm so sorry.
[woman3] William.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
[woman4] Oh God, I'm going to cry.
[Harry] The UK literally swept me
and William up as their children.
[woman] Sorry.
[Harry] An expectation to see
myself and William out and about
was really hard for the two of us.
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 maybe as well, you probably
veer away from having that discussion
because it's such an emotional hot potato,
like, if 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 shouts] Harry!
Harry!
That's when all of the stuff
that had happened to our mom
started happening to us.
[thoughtful music playing]
[photographer shouts] 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.
[Harry] Not every story was false.
But there was a lot
of typical exaggeration and rehashing.
He's bouncing between the walls, he's
taking drugs, drinking, he's out late,
he's night-clubbing, he's got
a girlfriend here, 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'll be
a level of interest,
and being swarmed by paparazzi,
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]
It was too much.
[female reporter] Prince Harry got
into a scuffle with photographers
after he left
a nightclub early this morning.
[female presenter] 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]
- [music]
[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.
[people singing in Sosotho]
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]
- The herds graze on the common land.
- Common land, yeah.
[Seeiso] We were feeling each other out,
finding out where
we were comfortable with each other.
The first time I met
Prince Seeiso, he was amazing.
We jumped on horses
and rode off to his cattle post.
[string folk music continues]
[Seeiso] 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."
[speaking Sesotho]
[crowd cheering]
[Seeiso] That kind of immediate reaction,
not only to me but to the community.
I could see that Harry
is very much his mother.
[female interviewer] How much of
an inspiration has your mother been
in what you're doing here?
Um, massively. Mine,
as well as Seeiso's mother.
Both our mothers
were hugely connected with AIDS,
especially the orphan
children from that itself.
[Harry] His mother died
shortly before I met him.
So, bearing in mind we both lost our moms
it didn't take very long
until we became like brothers.
Hey, everyone.
[Seeiso] Harry visited almost
on a yearly basis after that.
[Harry] I was 18 years old
and wanted to carry my mom's torch
and try to keep her legacy alive
and try to make her proud.
[woman] officially opened
by Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry,
the founders of Sentebale.
[Seeiso] 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.
[blowing raspberry]
[both laughing]
[Harry] I went to Africa,
sometimes three months at a time.
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.
- [car honking]
- [traffic noises]
[Meghan] That summer,
I was going to be on hiatus
from work but I had travel plans.
And a cast mate of mind had said,
"Make sure you leave room for magic."
And as we were talking about,
"When are we gonna see each other next?"
He said, "I have to go to Africa
to do some conservation work."
He said, "I have one week off." I said, "I
have one week off." 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]
[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.
They were both gonna go
to Africa and spend real time together.
So he said, "This is
either going to work or not
because we're going
to be together twenty four seven.
[Meghan] 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] 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] Like, oh God. [laughing[
Then we jumped
into the 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]
We had to know each other before the rest
of the world and the media joined in.
[Meghan] It was all so overwhelming
to be out there 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.
Promise I'll keep you safe."
And I believed him.
You put a lot of faith
and a lot of trust in me.
- I did.
- True.
[Harry] It just felt so right
and felt so normal.
[Meghan] We could both
just be completely ourselves.
There's no distraction.
There's no cellphone reception.
[lively music continues]
[Meghan] There's no mirror.
There's no bathroom.
There was no, "How do I look?"
Thankfully, we really liked each other.
[laughing]
[siren blaring]
[Abigail] It was 2016.
Meghan and I met up in New York.
[lively instrumental music playing]
We really enjoyed going to have tea
and champagne at Bergdorf Goodman.
That would be like,
"Let's meet at the tearoom at Bergdorf's."
She's like, "Um yeah, I er
I think I met someone and I'm in love."
It's Prince Harry. And I [laughing]
I mean, I could just feel
everything in her body vibrating.
We have a photo from that moment.
And I was screaming
because I could tell it was different.
It was very clear from the moment
that she told me about him
that they were in love
and that they were going to go
to the ends of the earth to be together.
We knew up until then
that we really connected
and really drawn to each other.
But what we were practicalities
of how this was actually going to work?
At that point in time, I thought,
"Is he allowed to fly?
Can he come visit her?"
How does this work logistically?
I think they just invented it.
They invented a way for it to work.
[soft music playing]
[Harry] She had a two-week rule,
which is very smart,
that said we had
to see each other in or around two weeks.
I said, "How is that even possible
with the stuff that I'm doing?
I'm not going to be able
to see you that much."
It's much easier for me
to go see him in the UK.
I could still just get on a commercial
flight and go and see him under the radar.
[Harry] Those first few months
when no one knew,
it made more sense for her to come to me.
So that she could come and stay
with me on Kensington Palace grounds.
We could jump in the car.
We could head up to Windsor
and go for walks around Frogmore
and do all these things together.
So that we could get to know each other
without someone taking your photograph
then it becoming like news.
[Meghan] Everything had to be so secretive
so it just accelerates
your level of getting to know each other
when you're not out in the world
in courtship, you're just together.
[soft music continues]
[Meghan laughing]
[Harry] Getting her through the
police barrier and onto Kensington Palace
was a risk in itself
because people talk, right?
It's not about who you trust.
It's about who they trust.
That's literally how it works.
[calm classical music playing]
[Robert]
For ordinary members of the public,
we like to think that the Royal Family
live extraordinarily privileged lives
with lots of servants
and they live in palaces
and they have it very easy.
I don't envy them for one moment.
They live, for me, in a gilded cage.
They lack most of the freedoms
that the rest of us take for granted.
They have very little autonomy
in choosing their own futures.
Formally, they lack freedom
to choose their own religion.
The first half dozen
in the line of succession
have to get the queen's permission
before they get married.
They don't really have
any free choice over their own career.
And the modern media are very intrusive.
Part of the currency
of talking about the Royal Family
is to share secrets.
Bigger headline.
A more exposing photograph.
A more shocking story.
That's going to get business.
That's going to get advertising.
Tabloid culture is
a real cut-throat business.
And it creates a real unsettled,
paranoid environment.
[female commentator] This idea that,
basically, we allow royals to exist,
albeit extravagantly,
on the condition that we're entitled to
constant information about their lives.
And I think that particularly
affects women in the Royal Family.
[James Holt]
I remember someone saying to Meghan,
"If you want to go to the Tate,
if you want to see a bit of London,
you better do it now
because your life's going to change."
[Harry] We'd been dating
secretly since July.
[Meghan] We'd been so petrified
of when it would break.
H tried to prepare me
for what that might be like
knowing what he'd experienced in the past.
And then, he and his brother's
Communications Secretary, Jason,
called him to let him know
that the story was scooped by a tabloid.
He said, "Well, if it's gonna come out
tomorrow, let's go and have fun tonight!"
[hip hop music playing]
[Harry] We went to
this Halloween party together,
where we could be completely
dressed up and no one would know.
- [Harry] I had a bandana and goggles.
- [Meghan] You borrowed a great costume.
[Harry] Borrowed a great costume.
[Meghan] And we were like, "Well, this
might be our last shot to just go out and
- have fun out in the world.
- Pull the pin on the fun grenade,
which we did.
[hip hop music continues]
[Meghan] His cousin, Eugenie, and
her boyfriend at the time, Jack,
and my friend, Marcus, were there too.
It was so great. Just silly fun.
And then
- [fingers snap]
- Don't let this be a final song ♪
[female reporter]
You hear that? That is the sound
of hearts breaking all around the world.
It is reported that Prince Harry
is dating actress, Meghan Markle.
- Harry's rumored to have a girlfriend
- the world's most eligible bachelor
- transatlantic alliance
- It is believed they met last summer
[Meghan] Next morning,
it was so overwhelming.
[female TV presenter]
the Prince and his American sweetheart
I said, "Okay. Well then,
I'll just treat it like we're in the bush.
Because, like, it's all foreign to me
but I trust that you'll keep me safe,
and you'll get me through it."
- She describes herself as mixed-race
- straight outta Compton
[male TV presenter]
from the wrong side of the tracks
[female voice] She's just a very different
type of person that I don't think
your average member of the public thinks
of when they think of "Royal Family."
Naively, I didn't know
what I was walking into.
[tense music playing]
[Harry] But in October of 2016,
when suddenly, everything changed.
[female voice1] Meghan is
very much a deviation
- [male voice1] lured Harry away from us
- [male voice2] Meghan seems to be
a version of the Antichrist
You're all I need to get by ♪
- You're all I need to get by ♪
- Like morning dew I took a look at you ♪
And it was plain to see
You were my destiny ♪
With arms open wide
I threw away my pride ♪
I sacrificed for you,
Dedicate my life to you ♪
I will go where you lead
Always there in time of need ♪
And when I lose my will
You'll be there to push me up the hill ♪
There's no, no looking back for us ♪
We got love sure 'nough, that's enough ♪
You're all you're all I need to get by ♪
- Oh baby oh baby ♪
- Ooh ooh ♪
- Honey, honey, honey, honey, yeah ♪
- Yeah ♪
- I need you darling. Oh, I need you ♪
- Ooh ooh, you're all, all I need ♪
- Oh, oh, oh I love you darling ♪
- Oh, baby ♪
- All I need I need your love ♪
- You're all I need ♪
- You're all I want. Ooh ♪
- Ooh ♪
Subtitle translation by: Regina Njoku
[airplane roars overhead]
[public address dings]
[female announcer] Attention please!
This is the final call for Flight Nine
[poignant piano music playing]
Um
[hesitating] Hi. So we're here
on er, Tues Wednesday.
Wednesday, the something of March.
Um, we've just finished, um, two weeks
[camera shutters click]
[Harry] 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?"
[male TV presenter1] fair to say
Britain is in shock this morning
[female TV presenter1] dramatic
and shocking announcement
from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
[male TV presenter2] I'm seeing them
taking a step back from royal duties.
[female TV presenter] Prince Harry appears
to be on a trajectory of self destruction.
H is in London and I'm here
[sighs]
I don't even know where to begin.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
[Harry] My job is to keep my family safe.
But the nature of being born
into this position,
amid everything else
that comes with it and the level of
hate being stirred up in the last
three years, especially against my wife
and my son.
[Meghan] Haz, is my mom
outside with Archie?
[Harry] I'm generally concerned
for the safety of my family.
Stay.
[exhales loudly]
I just really want to
get to the other side of all of this.
Um,
[in a lowered voice]
I don't know what to say anymore.
[titters]
[Harry] This is about duty
and service, and I feel
as though being part of this family,
it is my duty to uncover this exploitation
and bribery that happens within our media.
Unfortunately, in not standing
for something, they are destroying us.
[Harry] This isn't just about our story.
This has always been
so much bigger than us.
[woman] This does not represent
what London stands for
[man] take back control of this country
[Harry] No one knows the full truth.
We know the full truth.
The institution knows the full truth,
and the media knows the full truth
'cause 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.
[somber music ends]
[emotive theme music playing]
[emotive theme music finishes]
[Harry] Nervous. Why am I nervous?
[female interviewer] I just want to start
with this little moment.
I don't think you guys
have done this before.
And I just thought
I would share it with you.
[woman1] Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you, Meghan, so much.
Are you looking forward to watching
The South to see more right now?
[Meghan] Yes.
- Do you remember?
- No.
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,
"How it feels to be free."
- Oh? No, I don't know it.
- Oh, it's so good.
- I like this song.
- Okay, I'll look that up for sure.
[female TV presenter]
Fiercest female character on TV?
Who do I say? Olivia Pope?
[Meghan] Olivia Pope.
[laughs]
Prince William or Prince Harry?
- I don't know.[laughing]
- [laughing]
Harry.
Harry? Sure.
[laughing]
- Sure.
- Sure. I don't
What year was that?
[female interviewer] It's October 2015.
- [Meghan] October 2015?
- Less than a year.
[Meghan] Before we met?
- Honey, I'm sorry.
- Less than
- I of course choose you. [laughing]
- [sarcastically] Oh okay, great!
It just again shows how little you knew.
And look at how far we've come.
[birds chirping]
[Meghan] Look at that.
How would you describe it, Archie?
[Archie] Well, it's all done beautiful.
[Meghan] It's so beautiful.
- [birds chirping]
- [instrumental music resumes]
[Meghan laughing]
Archie, you're 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 ended up sacrificing everything 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?
Um
I'm not gonna say that it's comfortable,
but when you feel like people haven't got
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 piano 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.
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.
So we're here, Friday the,
whatever, 17th April or something
[Meghan] Look at the snow.
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.
Vroom!
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.
[sighs deeply]
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?
[Blues guitar music playing]
Pretty words come so easy ♪
Then all good ♪
[Harry] Meghan and I met in July of 2016.
[Meghan] Right before we met,
we'd gotten another season
of the show, Suits.
Then, I was single for a couple of months.
I was like,
"This is it. We're gonna travel.
Come on, girls. Let's go."
Oh, stop,
Don't worry about it. Ooh stop ♪
[Lindsay] In the summer of 2016,
she had a few different trips planned
and she was just going to be free.
I was really, like,
intent on being single,
and just have fun girl-time.
[Lucy] 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.
Stop stop stop. Don't worry about it.
Oh, stop stop stop Don't ♪
[Harry] Meghan and I met over Instagram.
I was scrolling through my feed
and someone who was a friend
had this video of the two of them,
like a Snapchat and um, it's
Oh gosh. Isn't that whole thing,
it's got like doggy ears
- [Harry]with doggy ears and
- [Meghan] That's what he saw of me.
That was the first thing.
I was like, "Who is that?"
[laughing] That's ridiculous.
[soft instrumental music playing]
[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?" And she said,
"It's Prince Haz." I said, "Who's that?"
[keyboard clicking]
[Meghan] I asked if I could see his feed.
So that's the thing. 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
Phew.
[Harry] Then we got each others'
numbers. We were just constantly in touch,
and I went, "Let's meet."
[Meghan] I was in London,
I was going to Wimbledon.
[instrumental music playing]
[Jill] 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
sitting next to someone I knew.
So I'm like, "Hey, how about him?"
And then I think the next day,
I found out that
she was going on a date with H.
[Silver] Meghan texted me from London
and said, "Silver,
you're not gonna believe this."
And basically, told 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]
[instrumental music continues]
[instrumental music playing]
[Meghan] We met at 76 Dean Street.
- You were late.
- Mm-hmm.
[Meghan] And I couldn't understand
why he would be late.
But he kept texting. He was like,
"I'm in traffic. I'm so sorry."
I was panicking. I was freaking out.
I was, like, sweating.
[Meghan] Then I didn't know him.
So I was like, "Oh,
is this what he does? Got it.
Like, this I'm not doing.
- I'm not gonna sit"
- What? What's that supposed to mean?
Like, you're one of those guys
who have so much of an ego
that you're not gonna that any girl
would sit waiting for a half hour for you.
I was just not interested in that.
And then when I walked in, I
- a hot, sweaty, red ball of mess
- You were just so sweet.
She's like, "Oh, that's not
that's not what you are"
That's not what you are.
- [Harry] I'm so sorry.
- You genuinely were,
- like, so embarrassed and late and
- [Harry snorts]
Though I'm not a great romancer ♪
He was just so fun.
Just so refreshingly fun.
And that was the thing,
we were like childlike together.
Anything goes ♪
[Harry] We had a great chat
for about an hour.
I left after an hour,
and um, I told him that I had other plans.
Then I called him that evening
and 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.
[whispering] She was late.
I what?
Actually, you were late.
- I was late?
- Yeah.
Remember? You came
rushing in from having a shower.
- From Wimbledon.
- Yeah. There you go.
- Yeah.
- Not half an hour.
- No. Like five, like
- A mere few minutes.
- But you were quite flustered.
- I hate being late.
[Harry laughs]
Well, I had come back from Wimbledon and,
you know, when you get all dolled up
I wanted to go home and take a shower
and then run over
looking more like myself.
I don't You could be as late
as you want, I ain't moving.
I wanna see you again.
[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."
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."
He had a list, apparently,
of what he was looking for.
Let's not go there.
An extensive list.
[interviewer] What were
a few things on that list?
- Not sharing the list.
- [interviewer] Okay.
- Good, nice try. [laughing]
- [Meghan laughing]
This is the list.
Good answer.
[instrumental music playing]
[Silver] She texted me after
and she was just like,
"Silver, I'm crazy about him."
[Ignacio] 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
I think this may be the one."
You could tell right away that those were
the eyes of someone who'd 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] And 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.
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 in 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 mom made most of her decisions,
if not all of them, from her heart.
And I am my mother's son.
[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]
[female TV presenter] Princess Diana
with Prince Charles at her side
gave birth on Saturday
to their second son,
a blue-eyed, six-pound, 14-oz boy who
becomes 3rd in line to the British throne.
[male TV presenter] More than 200 people,
some of whom
had waited outside the hospital all day
gave to Prince Charles the cheers they
couldn't give in person to Princess Diana.
[journalist] Everybody seems
to be so happy today.
Well, thank you very much.
I couldn't be more delighted.
We think it's smashing.
Everyone's so over the moon about it.
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 outing
wearing a conservative white blanket.
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]
[Harry] I mean, there's no point that
we're all sat down in the classroom
and my grandmother stands there with a
long stick, glasses on her nose and goes,
"Right. So this is what
it means to be in the royal family."
That doesn't happen.
[male TV presenter] Before the Service,
immediate family were alone in the castle
with just time enough
for the Prince of Wales
to explain the history
of the celebrated robe
Prince Harry behaving impeccably.
- [piano keyboard sounds]
- [giggling]
- Harry!
- You be quiet.
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] What, louder?
- [Charles] Louder.
He's certainly
a different character altogether.
- [Diana] Perhaps somewhere
- [Charles] Okay, here we go.
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [Charles laughing]
[Charles] You want it with him over there.
[indistinct mutter]
[male TV presenter] But you can't
control all of the people all of the time.
Harry!
[male TV presenter] From father, a young
pianist needs a cue on where to look.
- [camera shutters click]
- [piano keys sounding]
- Tsk.
- [photographer] Harry.
[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.
[little Harry] A fire!
[instrumental music playing]
[Harry] I don't have many
early memories of my mom.
[camera shutters clicking]
It was almost like, internally,
I sort of blocked them out.
[laughing]
[Harry] But I always remember
her laugh, her cheeky laugh.
I always say, "You can
get in trouble, but 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]
[male TV presenter]
Like many British families,
the Wales's like to head
for 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 mom's face.
And I guess those are the moments when
I thought, "Hang on a little. What am I?
Who am I? What am I part of?"
[royal band playing]
[tense music playing]
[James Holt] The Royal Family are
the most senior figures in the 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]
Certainly, as I was growing up, if you'd
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] It's hard to overstate,
I think, the cultural significance
of the British monarchy,
partly because it's an ancient monarchy.
It's existed for over a thousand years.
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.
[somber music playing]
[crowd chants] 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] She has been Queen
for more than 70 years,
and that's the longest reign
we've 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]
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 between
two thousand and three thousand visits.
[indistinct conversation]
[Robert] 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]
[man] thought he was going
straight in the river.
[clears throat]
[male reporter] Prince William
led the royal children
to a photo call
arranged by palace officials.
Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice
march behind the future king
although Prince Andrew's
other daughter, Princess Eugenie
makes somewhat slower progress.
[man1] The photographers and cameramen
took pictures
of all the four children together.
Prince William was then asked
how he was enjoying the skiing.
Um, yes. I went fine.
Very good. I enjoy it.
[Harry] Paparazzi used to
harass us to the point
where we had to be forced into smiling
and answering questions
to the travelling press pack.
[photographer1] Would you look
at this camera please?
Just keep this one
on hold for a little bit.
[photographer2] William, will you help us?
[Harry] And that made me feel
really uncomfortable from the get-go.
- [photographer3] Can you look this way?
- [camera shutters clicking]
[man3] Hello. Just look at this.
[woman] 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
just follow us around,
either taking photographs or
just waiting for an accident to happen
and then pull out their cameras.
So it was never fair and it never worked.
[Robert] 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.
[camera shutters clicking]
My mom did such
a good job in trying to protect us.
She took it upon herself
to basically confront these people.
Please leave.
As a parent, could I ask you
to respect my children's space?
[man] Yes, certainly.
Yes. No problem at all.
[Diana] Because I brought
the children out here for a holiday.
[man] Right.
[Diana] And we'd
really appreciate the space.
[man] I understand, ma'am.
[Diana] And I'm sure as a
[man] Is it possible
to just get a picture of
- [Diana] No.
- [man] this afternoon,
and then we could totally leave you alone.
If you just move over there, you're skiing
- and I'll leave you alone.
- [Diana] No.
We've had 15 cameras following us today.
- [man] I haven't been one of those.
- [Diana] No but,
as a parent, I want
to protect the children. Thank you.
[man] Thanks. Cheers.
[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
she was deceived into giving the interview
but at the same time,
she spoke the truth of her experience.
How do you feel about the way
the press behaves towards you now?
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]
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]
- [voice1 in crowd] Yeah, I know her.
- [voice2 in crowd] Alright.
[Harry] My mom was harassed
throughout her life with my dad.
But after they separated,
the harassment went to new levels.
[John Major] 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.
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 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.
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]
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]
I knew the only way
that this could possibly work
is by keeping it quiet
for as long as possible.
[Meghan] At the beginning,
our relationship was this guarded little
guarded treasure.
[mobile phone ringing]
[Meghan] 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]
[Meghan] 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.
[Meghan] We've gone rogue.
We've gone rogue.
[both laughing]
[in a lowered voice] Like, I feel like
we're doing something so naughty.
[soft music playing]
Oh my goodness. My love.
[Harry] So much
of what Meghan is, and how she is
is so similar to my mom.
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] 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] Hey, Grandma.
[baby babbles]
[Meghan] Yeah.
[Harry] Especially after
what happened to my mom.
[Meghan] Yeah.
That's your Grandma Diana. Yeah.
[Harry] You know, I didn't want
history to repeat itself.
[siren blaring]
[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.
[Earl Spencer] 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 mom died,
we had two hats to wear.
One was two grieving sons
wanting to cry, grieve,
and process that grief
because of losing our mom.
And two was the royal hat, no emotion,
get out there, meet people, shake hands.
Thank you so much, thank you.
- [woman1] Harry, I'm so sorry.
- [woman2] I'm so sorry.
[woman3] William.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
[woman4] Oh God, I'm going to cry.
[Harry] The UK literally swept me
and William up as their children.
[woman] Sorry.
[Harry] An expectation to see
myself and William out and about
was really hard for the two of us.
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 maybe as well, you probably
veer away from having that discussion
because it's such an emotional hot potato,
like, if 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 shouts] Harry!
Harry!
That's when all of the stuff
that had happened to our mom
started happening to us.
[thoughtful music playing]
[photographer shouts] 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.
[Harry] Not every story was false.
But there was a lot
of typical exaggeration and rehashing.
He's bouncing between the walls, he's
taking drugs, drinking, he's out late,
he's night-clubbing, he's got
a girlfriend here, 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'll be
a level of interest,
and being swarmed by paparazzi,
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]
It was too much.
[female reporter] Prince Harry got
into a scuffle with photographers
after he left
a nightclub early this morning.
[female presenter] 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]
- [music]
[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.
[people singing in Sosotho]
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]
- The herds graze on the common land.
- Common land, yeah.
[Seeiso] We were feeling each other out,
finding out where
we were comfortable with each other.
The first time I met
Prince Seeiso, he was amazing.
We jumped on horses
and rode off to his cattle post.
[string folk music continues]
[Seeiso] 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."
[speaking Sesotho]
[crowd cheering]
[Seeiso] That kind of immediate reaction,
not only to me but to the community.
I could see that Harry
is very much his mother.
[female interviewer] How much of
an inspiration has your mother been
in what you're doing here?
Um, massively. Mine,
as well as Seeiso's mother.
Both our mothers
were hugely connected with AIDS,
especially the orphan
children from that itself.
[Harry] His mother died
shortly before I met him.
So, bearing in mind we both lost our moms
it didn't take very long
until we became like brothers.
Hey, everyone.
[Seeiso] Harry visited almost
on a yearly basis after that.
[Harry] I was 18 years old
and wanted to carry my mom's torch
and try to keep her legacy alive
and try to make her proud.
[woman] officially opened
by Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry,
the founders of Sentebale.
[Seeiso] 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.
[blowing raspberry]
[both laughing]
[Harry] I went to Africa,
sometimes three months at a time.
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.
- [car honking]
- [traffic noises]
[Meghan] That summer,
I was going to be on hiatus
from work but I had travel plans.
And a cast mate of mind had said,
"Make sure you leave room for magic."
And as we were talking about,
"When are we gonna see each other next?"
He said, "I have to go to Africa
to do some conservation work."
He said, "I have one week off." I said, "I
have one week off." 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]
[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.
They were both gonna go
to Africa and spend real time together.
So he said, "This is
either going to work or not
because we're going
to be together twenty four seven.
[Meghan] 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] 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] Like, oh God. [laughing[
Then we jumped
into the 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]
We had to know each other before the rest
of the world and the media joined in.
[Meghan] It was all so overwhelming
to be out there 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.
Promise I'll keep you safe."
And I believed him.
You put a lot of faith
and a lot of trust in me.
- I did.
- True.
[Harry] It just felt so right
and felt so normal.
[Meghan] We could both
just be completely ourselves.
There's no distraction.
There's no cellphone reception.
[lively music continues]
[Meghan] There's no mirror.
There's no bathroom.
There was no, "How do I look?"
Thankfully, we really liked each other.
[laughing]
[siren blaring]
[Abigail] It was 2016.
Meghan and I met up in New York.
[lively instrumental music playing]
We really enjoyed going to have tea
and champagne at Bergdorf Goodman.
That would be like,
"Let's meet at the tearoom at Bergdorf's."
She's like, "Um yeah, I er
I think I met someone and I'm in love."
It's Prince Harry. And I [laughing]
I mean, I could just feel
everything in her body vibrating.
We have a photo from that moment.
And I was screaming
because I could tell it was different.
It was very clear from the moment
that she told me about him
that they were in love
and that they were going to go
to the ends of the earth to be together.
We knew up until then
that we really connected
and really drawn to each other.
But what we were practicalities
of how this was actually going to work?
At that point in time, I thought,
"Is he allowed to fly?
Can he come visit her?"
How does this work logistically?
I think they just invented it.
They invented a way for it to work.
[soft music playing]
[Harry] She had a two-week rule,
which is very smart,
that said we had
to see each other in or around two weeks.
I said, "How is that even possible
with the stuff that I'm doing?
I'm not going to be able
to see you that much."
It's much easier for me
to go see him in the UK.
I could still just get on a commercial
flight and go and see him under the radar.
[Harry] Those first few months
when no one knew,
it made more sense for her to come to me.
So that she could come and stay
with me on Kensington Palace grounds.
We could jump in the car.
We could head up to Windsor
and go for walks around Frogmore
and do all these things together.
So that we could get to know each other
without someone taking your photograph
then it becoming like news.
[Meghan] Everything had to be so secretive
so it just accelerates
your level of getting to know each other
when you're not out in the world
in courtship, you're just together.
[soft music continues]
[Meghan laughing]
[Harry] Getting her through the
police barrier and onto Kensington Palace
was a risk in itself
because people talk, right?
It's not about who you trust.
It's about who they trust.
That's literally how it works.
[calm classical music playing]
[Robert]
For ordinary members of the public,
we like to think that the Royal Family
live extraordinarily privileged lives
with lots of servants
and they live in palaces
and they have it very easy.
I don't envy them for one moment.
They live, for me, in a gilded cage.
They lack most of the freedoms
that the rest of us take for granted.
They have very little autonomy
in choosing their own futures.
Formally, they lack freedom
to choose their own religion.
The first half dozen
in the line of succession
have to get the queen's permission
before they get married.
They don't really have
any free choice over their own career.
And the modern media are very intrusive.
Part of the currency
of talking about the Royal Family
is to share secrets.
Bigger headline.
A more exposing photograph.
A more shocking story.
That's going to get business.
That's going to get advertising.
Tabloid culture is
a real cut-throat business.
And it creates a real unsettled,
paranoid environment.
[female commentator] This idea that,
basically, we allow royals to exist,
albeit extravagantly,
on the condition that we're entitled to
constant information about their lives.
And I think that particularly
affects women in the Royal Family.
[James Holt]
I remember someone saying to Meghan,
"If you want to go to the Tate,
if you want to see a bit of London,
you better do it now
because your life's going to change."
[Harry] We'd been dating
secretly since July.
[Meghan] We'd been so petrified
of when it would break.
H tried to prepare me
for what that might be like
knowing what he'd experienced in the past.
And then, he and his brother's
Communications Secretary, Jason,
called him to let him know
that the story was scooped by a tabloid.
He said, "Well, if it's gonna come out
tomorrow, let's go and have fun tonight!"
[hip hop music playing]
[Harry] We went to
this Halloween party together,
where we could be completely
dressed up and no one would know.
- [Harry] I had a bandana and goggles.
- [Meghan] You borrowed a great costume.
[Harry] Borrowed a great costume.
[Meghan] And we were like, "Well, this
might be our last shot to just go out and
- have fun out in the world.
- Pull the pin on the fun grenade,
which we did.
[hip hop music continues]
[Meghan] His cousin, Eugenie, and
her boyfriend at the time, Jack,
and my friend, Marcus, were there too.
It was so great. Just silly fun.
And then
- [fingers snap]
- Don't let this be a final song ♪
[female reporter]
You hear that? That is the sound
of hearts breaking all around the world.
It is reported that Prince Harry
is dating actress, Meghan Markle.
- Harry's rumored to have a girlfriend
- the world's most eligible bachelor
- transatlantic alliance
- It is believed they met last summer
[Meghan] Next morning,
it was so overwhelming.
[female TV presenter]
the Prince and his American sweetheart
I said, "Okay. Well then,
I'll just treat it like we're in the bush.
Because, like, it's all foreign to me
but I trust that you'll keep me safe,
and you'll get me through it."
- She describes herself as mixed-race
- straight outta Compton
[male TV presenter]
from the wrong side of the tracks
[female voice] She's just a very different
type of person that I don't think
your average member of the public thinks
of when they think of "Royal Family."
Naively, I didn't know
what I was walking into.
[tense music playing]
[Harry] But in October of 2016,
when suddenly, everything changed.
[female voice1] Meghan is
very much a deviation
- [male voice1] lured Harry away from us
- [male voice2] Meghan seems to be
a version of the Antichrist
You're all I need to get by ♪
- You're all I need to get by ♪
- Like morning dew I took a look at you ♪
And it was plain to see
You were my destiny ♪
With arms open wide
I threw away my pride ♪
I sacrificed for you,
Dedicate my life to you ♪
I will go where you lead
Always there in time of need ♪
And when I lose my will
You'll be there to push me up the hill ♪
There's no, no looking back for us ♪
We got love sure 'nough, that's enough ♪
You're all you're all I need to get by ♪
- Oh baby oh baby ♪
- Ooh ooh ♪
- Honey, honey, honey, honey, yeah ♪
- Yeah ♪
- I need you darling. Oh, I need you ♪
- Ooh ooh, you're all, all I need ♪
- Oh, oh, oh I love you darling ♪
- Oh, baby ♪
- All I need I need your love ♪
- You're all I need ♪
- You're all I want. Ooh ♪
- Ooh ♪
Subtitle translation by: Regina Njoku