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Part II of the Harry & Meghan series drops on Netflix. Here are some of the key moments

The final three episodes of Harry & Meghan, a series about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are now available for streaming in Australia.

The first three episodes of the Netflix series covered how the couple met, their long-distance relationship and the lead-up to their wedding, with criticism of the British press being a consistent theme in each episode.

Here are some of the key moments from the second instalment of the series.

Episode 4: King Charles played a big role in the wedding

King Charles III helped pick the orchestra that performed as Meghan walked down the aisle, "which made all the difference", Harry said.

"Harry's dad is very charming," Meghan said.

"And I said to him, like, I've lost my dad in this, so him as my father in law was really important to me.

"So I asked him to walk me down the aisle and he said 'yes'."

They also speak about gospel choir which famously sang Stand By Me during the ceremony.

"There wasn't too much pushback on that," Harry said.

"Everyone was like, 'Yeah of course, what a wonderful idea that's great', then, again, more help from my dad on that one."

Meghan said the choir was made up of "the best people" from certain gospel choirs.

"And that's how Kingdom Choir came to be and they were great," she said.

Episode 4: Harry and Meghan cut their wedding cake with a sword

"It was great, it was all so over the top," Meghan said.

"I think most people were just like 'what is happening?' Elton John's performing, I couldn't find my mum because she had like beelined to the stage to watch Elton sing.

"I just really wanted the music to be fun."

Then it's revealed their first dance was to Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett.

"It was so fun, it was spinning like a whirlwind, it was so great," she said.

Episode 4: Harry and Meghan say their Kensington Palace cottage was small

Shortly after the wedding, the episode showed pictures of the pair living at Nottingham Cottage, on the ground of Kensington Palace in London.

That's where they lived before they moved to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.

"As far as people were concerned we were living in a palace, and we were, but in a cottage," Harry said.

"We were living on palace grounds.

"Kensington palace sounds very regal, of course it does, it says 'palace' in the name," Meghan said.

"But Nottingham Cottage was so small.

"The whole thing's on a slight lean," Harry said.

"Really low ceilings so I don't know who was there before, they must have been very short.

"He would just hit his head constantly in that place because he's so tall," Meghan said.

Episode 4: Meghan talks about tender moments with The Queen

Meghan went into the details of her first official engagement with Queen Elizabeth II after the wedding.

In the first episode of the series, viewers are told that all interviews were completed by August 2022, before the Queen's death in September. 

"When we got into the car between engagements, she had a blanket and she put it over my knees," she said.

"And we were sitting in the car with this blanket and I thought, 'I recognise and respect and see you are the Queen, but in this moment, I'm so grateful that there's a grandmother figure'.

"Cos that feels like family and because I was so, so close with my grandmother and I took care of her in her final years. 

"It was such a good day."

Episode 4: Meghan's link to the Grenfell fire victims

Meghan's first engagement with the Queen was on the one-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, with the pair observing a 71-second silence in honour of the 71 people who died when the social-housing block went up in flames.

"It was really important to me because I had become so close with so many of the women who had survived that – even though no one knew that at the time," Meghan said.

The series featured footage from Meghan's visits to the Hubb Community Kitchen, which was where women displaced by the fire came together to cook.

She went on to make a charity cookbook in aid of the kitchen, with her first speech as a member of the royal family being at the book's launch.

The episode featured praise of Meghan for "changing the way the royal family is perceived" and "bringing new life to the monarchy".

Episode 4: 'Australia was a real turning point'

Off the back of this praise, the series went into the couple's tour of Australia – which coincided with the announcement that they were expecting their first child.

It showed glowing news reports about the couple.

"I think Australia was a real turning point," Lucy Fraser, a friend of the couple, said.

"Because they were so popular, so popular with the public the internals at the palace were incredibly threatened by that."

"The issue is when someone who is marrying in who should be a … supporting act, is then stealing the limelight or doing the job better than the person who was born to do this, that upsets people," Harry said.

Episode 4: Harry on Meghan's depression

Meghan had previously revealed she was having suicidal thoughts in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

It gave more insight into how Harry dealt with this.

"I didn't deal with it particularly well, I dealt with it as institutional Harry as opposed to husband Harry," he said.

"And what took over my feelings was my royal role.

"I'd been trained to worry more about what people going to think if we don't go to this event.

"And, looking back on it now, I hate myself for it.

"What she needed from me was so much more than I was able to give."

Episode 4: Harry scathing of Prince William's press office

Harry gave his insight about how the communication teams for members of the royal family operated.

"I have 30 years of experiences of looking behind the curtains of how this system works and how it runs," Harry said. 

"Just constant briefings about other members of the family, about favours inviting the press in – it's a dirty game.

"There's leaking, but there's also planting of stories.

"So if the [communications] team want to be able remove a negative story about their principal, they will trade and give you something about someone else's principal.

"So the offices end up working against each other.

"William and I both saw what happened in our dad's office and we made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office."

Then the series showed headlines about Harry and his brother Prince William's households splitting.

"I would far rather get destroyed in the press than play along with this game or this business of trading," Harry said.

"And to see my brother's office copy the very same thing that we promised the two of us would never, ever do – that was heartbreaking."

Episode 5: Prince William 'screams and shouts' at Harry over plans to leave

A meeting was held between Harry and senior family members about his position within the royal family after he had sent a proposal that outlined his plans to move to Canada.

He said Prince William, then-Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth attempted to come up with a blueprint for the way forward.

"I was given five options, one being all-in, five being all-out," Harry said.

He said it became "very clear very quickly" that there would be no middle ground.

“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true," Harry said.

The Queen quietly sat there and took it all in," Harry said.

Episode 5: Meghan wrote a letter to her father at the guidance of the Queen

Meghan said her close relationship with her father Thomas Markle changed when the media began to "manipulate" him when he agreed to speak about her in interviews before and after the wedding.

"It was incredibly painful and the world was watching this drama play out, and then he started criticising the Royal Family, it was very embarrassing for the family," she said.

"It was a problem that needed to be solved, and they wanted me to make it stop."

At the advice of Queen Elizabeth and then-Prince Charles, Meghan sent her father a letter, which she said was sent discretely, but ultimately was published in the media.

Episode 5: Private letters between Harry and his father were leaked

Harry and Meghan had spoken with senior members of the Royal Family about wanting to move to Canada, but continue working as members of the institution without public funding.

Harry said he spoke to his father King Charles, who was then the Prince of Wales, about the plan to move but was asked to put it in writing.

In his letter to his father, Harry wrote that if this proposal wouldn't work out, the couple was willing to relinquish their Sussex titles.

He said the letter between himself and his father had been leaked to the media.

That's when the couple released a statement that they'd be stepping back from the royal family.

Episode 6: 'Stress from tabloids caused Meghan’s miscarriage'

Harry said his wife suffered a miscarriage because of "what the Mail did", referring to the toll of a lawsuit against tabloid media that the couple were fighting once they had moved to the US.

"I was pregnant, I really wasn’t sleeping and the first morning that we woke up in our new home was when I miscarried," Meghan said.

The combination of no sleep, immense stress, and the timing of the pregnancy, all contributed to the miscarriage, Harry said.

Episode 6: Birth of Lilibet made Meghan feel complete

Meghan said when Lilibet was born, people gave the family privacy to "nurture and cocoon".

Harry said he sees a lot of Meghan in Archie and a lot of his mother Diana in Lilibet.

“She's very Spencer-like, she's got the same blue eyes, sort of like a golden-reddish hair," Harry says.

Episode 6: Aide to Prince William’s unexpected witness statement

After Meghan's legal case against some news outlets had gone on for years, the judge decided to call it in her favour.

When the case was about to go to the court of appeal, a former aide, Jason Knauf, gave a witness statement where he said Meghan was aware that the letter could leak because she'd shared a draft with her former press secretary.

Mr Knauf was a senior aide to Prince William when the witness statement was made.

Footage is shown where Meghan says to Harry: "It's your brother. Not going to say anything about your brother, but it's so obvious."

"That's why I'm now living in a different country because all the comms [sic] teams basically like try to outdo each other," Harry says.

In a statement, Mr Knauff says the claims are "entirely false".

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