Prince Harry claims his brother William, Prince of Wales, 'screamed and shouted' at him when they were discussing Harry and Meghan quitting the Royal Family.
The Duke of Sussex makes the claim in the final episodes of the Harry and Meghan documentary now released on Netflix.
In the fifth episode of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, the Duke of Sussex said it was “terrifying” for his brother, now the Prince of Wales, to “scream and shout” at him during a meeting on January 13 at Sandringham about plans for Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, to move abroad.
He said: “I went in with the same proposal that we’d already made publicly, but once I got there I was given five options – one being all in, no change, five being all out.
“I chose option three in the meeting – half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen.
“It became very clear very quickly that goal was not up for discussion or debate. It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true. And my grandmother, you know, quietly sit there and take it all in.
“But you have to understand that, from the family’s perspective, especially from hers, there are ways of doing things and her ultimate, sort of, mission, goal/responsibility is the institution.”
The Duchess of Sussex said she thought about taking her own life, saying in episode four of the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan: “It was like ‘All of this will stop if I am not here’. And that was the scariest thing about it because it was such clear thinking.”
Her mother, Doria Ragland, said: “I remember her telling me that, that she had wanted to take her own life, and that really broke my heart because I knew…
“Well, I knew it was bad, but to just constantly be picked at by these vultures, just picking away at her spirit, that she would actually think of not wanting to be here. That is not an easy one for a mum to hear.”
Wiping away tears, she added: “And I can’t protect her. H (Harry) can’t protect her.”
The Duke of Sussex said a letter he wrote to his father, the then Prince of Wales, about him and the Duchess of Sussex moving to Canada to work as royals was leaked to the press.
In the fifth episode of the Netflix series Harry & Meghan, he said: “It became clear that the institution had leaked the fact that we were moving back to Canada.
“And a key piece of that story that made me aware that the contents of the letter between me and my father had been leaked was that we were willing to relinquish our titles.
“That was a giveaway.
“I was like ‘Wow, our story, our lives, literally got taken from underneath us’.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have claimed the institution was “blocking” Harry from seeing his grandmother.
The duke told episode five of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan that they were planning to fly back to the UK for a visit in early 2020 and the Queen told him she had no plans all week so they could go for tea and stay the night.
Meghan said: “So, we’re flying back from Vancouver straight to Heathrow, and right as we’re getting on the plane, this urgent message comes through to H, saying ‘You are not allowed to go and see Her Majesty. Make sure that your principal is aware he cannot go and see her. She’s busy. She has plans all week.'”
Harry tells the camera: “I was like ‘Well, that’s certainly the opposite to what she had told me.'”
“Once we were back in the UK, I rang her and said ‘We’re now told that you’re busy.’ And she said ‘Yes. I didn’t know that I was busy. I’ve now been told I’m busy all week. I’ve actually been told I’m busy all week.’ I was like ‘Wow’.”
Meghan said: “I remember looking at H and thinking ‘My gosh. This is when a family and a family business are in direct conflict because they’re blocking you from seeing the Queen, but what they’re really doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother.”
The Duke of Sussex said he hates looking back on how he dealt with the Duchess of Sussex when she had thoughts of taking her own life.
In the fourth episode of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan documentary, he said: “I was devastated. I knew that she was struggling. We were both struggling, but I never thought that it would get to that stage, and the fact that it got to that stage, I felt angry and ashamed.
“I didn’t deal with it particularly well. I dealt with it as institutional Harry, as opposed to husband Harry. And what took over my feelings was my royal role.
“I had been trained to worry more about ‘What are people going to think if we don’t go to this event, we’re going to be late’, and looking back on it now, I hate myself for it.
“What she needed from me was so much more than what I was able to give.”
Meghan said: “I wanted to go somewhere to get help, but I wasn’t allowed to. They were concerned how that would look for the institution.”
Speaking about the Duchess of Sussex’s miscarriage, her mother, Doria Ragland, said in the final episode of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan documentary: “I thought she was brave and courageous. But that doesn’t surprise me because she is brave and courageous.”
At this point the episode refers to the piece Meghan wrote for The New York Times with the headline “The Losses We Share”.
The duchess tells the programme: “When I reveal things that are moments of vulnerability, when it comes to having a miscarriage and maybe having felt ashamed about that, like, it’s OK, you’re human, it’s OK to talk about that.
“And I could make the choice to never talk about those things, or I could make the choice to say with all the bad that comes with this, the good is being able to help other people.
“That’s the point of life, right, is connection and community like that.”
The Duke of Sussex said he wrote to his father, the then Prince of Wales, in January 2020 to say that he and his wife would be willing to relinquish their titles if the couple’s plan to move to Canada as working royals did not work out.
In the fifth episode of the Netflix series Harry & Meghan, Harry said: “By the time I was speaking to my father from Canada, the family and their people knew that we were trying to find a different way of working for the minimum of two years.
“Canada, I was speaking to my father, ‘This is the plan’, and he says ‘Can you put it in writing’, and I said I would rather not because of what happened last time…
“And he said ‘I can’t do anything unless you put it in writing’. So I put it in writing, sent him emails on the 1st and the 2nd and the 3rd of January.
“And in one of those I had mentioned that if this wasn’t going to work out, then we would be willing to relinquish our Sussex titles if need be. So that was the plan.”
Footage in the final episode of Harry & Meghan apparently filmed by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex shows them preparing for Archie’s first birthday, making a balloon arch and baking, followed by a picture of the toddler in his highchair, wearing a party hat and surrounded by his mother, father and grandmother, Doria Ragland.
“We were there for six weeks and no-one knew,” Harry said, referring to Tyler Perry’s house.
“My family still thought I was in Canada.”
Footage filmed by Meghan on the day of Archie’s birthday shows Harry sitting outside the house in front of an impressive sunset.
Meghan can be heard saying: “And it’s not our home, but we’re grateful.”
Harry then says: “But there’s a world in which it could be our home.”
He then laughs before Meghan turns the camera around to film them as they share a kiss.
