The Sussexes have faced intense scrutiny since the first three episodes were released last week. Revelations included Harry claiming they “had to quit” royal duties to “protect” Meghan and that the duo actually met on Instagram.
Harry and Meghan's latest royal attacks were eviscerated by UK commentators -- with GB News host Nana Akua, 51, saying the show was "disgraceful," adding: "I would go as far to say that they are committing treason."
Fellow GB News host Dan Wootton called it the couple's "most disgraceful propaganda yet," and added: "In a gutless roundabout way, Prince Harry has just accused Prince William of bullying him out of the Royal Family."
Post columnist Piers Morgan also called it "outstanding treachery" and "a grotesque and sickening betrayal" of Harry's family.
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In one of the last scenes in the show Harry drives along a California highway with soft acoustic music playing in the background and the freewheeling prince reflects on what he's left behind.
"I miss the weird family gatherings when we all get together under one roof for certain times of the year. Being part of the instiution meant that I was in the UK, so I miss the UK, I miss my friends … I've lost a few friends in this process as well."
He also bizarrely hints Diana would have moved to Montecito too, had she lived.
"I came here [California] because I was changed. I changed to the point that I'd outgrown my environment, therefore this was the most obvious places to come.
"This is one of the places my mum was going to end up living, potentially, you know."
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In one of the more heartwarming moments in the show, Harry pulls a mock stunned face as his wife recieves a text from Meghan.
Meghan says: “Beyoncé just texted," to which Harry replies “Shut up!”
He then jokes: “Just checking in, just casual.”
Meghan replies: “She said she wants me to feel safe and protected. She admires and respects my bravery and vulnerability and thinks I was selected to break generational curses."
Harry responds: “That’s well said.”
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“That’s the piece that’s so triggering,” she continues. “Because … it still wasn’t good enough, and you still don’t fit in.”
Markle, 41, describes leaving England, saying in the docuseries that a man overseeing the plane’s crew took his hat off and shared his appreciation for “everything [she] did for [the] country.”
The Duchess of Sussex remembers, “It was the first time that I felt like someone saw the sacrifice, not for my own country, for this country. It’s not mine.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP
Harry suggested he was shocked at the "beating" they got after their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview -- claiming it also triggered "institutional gaslighting" by the palace.
"Sitting down with Oprah was a reaction to what had happened that year," Harry said, while wife Meghan said it was because "people just genuinely didn't understand why we left."
He said he thought it would mark "the beginning of our year of transition -- which, it turns out, was anything but a transition. It was just a beating."
The doc noted how stories about Meghan bullying palace staff suddenly emerged around the same time Oprah was about to air their interview, in which they accused an unidentified royal of being racist.
"I can't think what my mom went through all those years ago by herself," Harry said.
"To see this institutional gaslighting that happens is … it is extraordinary. And that’s why everything that’s happened to us was always going to happen to us. Because if you speak truth to power, that’s how they respond."
Meghan complained that her confession at the time that she had been suicidal was "entirely eclipsed by the conversation surrounding race," with the couple not naming the supposed racist royal during the nearly six-hour Netflix docu-series.
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Prince Harry says he will never get "a genuine apology" from his estranged royal family for their treatment of him and Meghan and Harry.
Harry said it became all too obvious when he failed to see eye-to-eye with his brother, Prince William, and their dad, King Charles III, in April last year -- more than a year after Megxit -- when he flew back to the UK for the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip.
"None of us really wanted to have to talk about it at my grandfather's funeral, but we did," he said.
“It was hard. Especially spending time having chats with my brother and my father who were very much focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation," he said.
"And I’ve had to make peace with the fact that we’re probably never gonna get genuine accountability or a genuine apology.
"My wife and I, we're moving on. We’re focused on what’s coming next," he said, as the documentary cut to images of their youngest child, Lilibet Diana, as a newborn.
Alongside all the royal-bashing in Harry and Meghan's new docu-series, there are a series of cute pics of now 18-month-old Lilibet from when she was a tiny toddler.
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Harry heavily hinted that a real reason behind Megxit was his brother, Prince William, "bullying us out of the family" -- accusing Buckingham Palace of lying to protect the current heir to the throne.
Harry recalled how on the same day as the "Sandringham Summit" -- where he says his brother screamed at him -- "a story came out saying that part of the reason why Meghan and I were leaving was because William had bullied us out.
"Once I got in the car after the meeting, I was told about a joint statement that have been put up in my name and my brother's name squashing the story about him bullying us out of the family.
“I couldn’t believe it. No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that," he seethed, strongly suggesting he would not have made such a denial.
"And I rang M and I told her -- and she burst into floods of tears," he said of Meghan, who was in Canada at the time.
"Because within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother -- and yet for three years they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us," Harry complained.
The young prince said that "the saddest part" of the whole scandal "was this wedge that it created between myself and my brother.”
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Prince Harry accused his brother, Prince William, of screaming at him over Megxit — and directly accused dad King Charles III of lying to protect the monarchy.
Harry, 38, said the explosive showdown came at the so-called "Sandringham Summit" in January 2020, when he was summoned to meet his dad and brother as well as his then-ruling grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, after announcing his shock exit from royal life.
"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father saying things that just simply weren’t true," he claimed of the response.
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He defended his late grandmother, whom he said sat there and took "it all in," noting that her "mission, goal" in life was to defend "the institution."
If "people around her are telling her, 'By the way, that proposal … is going to be seen as an attack on the institution, then she's going to go on the advice that she's given," he said.
"It was really hard. The meeting finished without any, like, solidified action plan," saying his family blamed him and his wife rather than the institution and the media that "caused so much pain for us."
"They saw what they wanted to see," he said, grimacing bitterly.
Meghan is seen dramatically reading the statement issued by the Queen after her and Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah aired in March 2021, to Tyler Perry on the phone in Episode 6 of the docu-series.
Surely this is a moment set up for the cameras, but as she reads Harry can be seen biting his nails and looking at his phone.
The shot then cuts to Meghan, who says "what am I looking at?" as Harry shows the screen to her. "Wow" she exclaims as Harry rubs his nose.
"H just got a text from his brother," Meghan tells Tyler with a concerned voice, before hurryingly telling him "All right, I'll talk to you later on."
Harry - who has been feuding with William since shortly after his wedding to Meghan in 2018 - puts his hands behind his head and says "I wish I knew what to do."
Meghan hugs him and says: "I know. Let's take a breather, get some air and then decide."
Of course the contents of the dramatic text, which may even be the last William has ever sent to Harry, are never revealed.
Prince Harry filmed himself laughing on his "freedom flight" to California -- later saying it "was the most obvious place to come" because he'd "outgrown" the UK.
"Good morning, it's 6 a.m. on the 14th of March and we are on the freedom flight!" Harry says in a 2020 selfie video, breaking into a big smile and a chuckle before putting his finger over his mouth with a "shhh" as he says they "are heading to Los Angeles."
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He then shows Meghan's mom and their dogs with them on the private jet, with Meghan cradling then-baby Archie and smiling as she says: "Archie say hi! You're about to go where mommy's from."
"It felt like they were running," Meghan's mom admitted of the relocation from their initial retreat in Canada.
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Harry said they were on the way to L.A. "thanks to another amazing friend who we've never met," referring to Tyler Perry, who put them up in one of his mansions before they bought their own place.
He later called his exclusive enclave in California "the most obvious place to come" -- suggesting it was "one of the places where I think my mom was probably going to end up living, potentially."
"I mean, I came here because I was changed. I changed to the point of I'd outgrown my environment," he said of the UK and royalty.
In a bid to cope with all the negativity they claim was consuming them, Meghan and Harry turned to guided meditation sessions to help them overcome their psychological anguish.
In episode five Harry, eyes closed, places his palms to the sky while Meghan puts a supportive hand on his knee and we hear their instructor.
She says: "Exhale. Remember that what is transpiring in the media, what is being created is an illusion … you're not the preson they say you are … your work is not to prove your goodness."