Prince Harry has claimed that Prince William “screamed and shouted” at him at a meeting to discuss his future in the royal family.
Calling it “terrifying”, Harry said the outburst came in a January 2020 meeting with other senior royals including Charles and the late Queen, at Sandringham, as he and Meghan prepared to step back from royal life.
The claims are among the latest revelations to emerge from the Netflix documentary series, Harry and Meghan, the final three episodes of which were released Thursday morning.
Speaking on episode five of the six-part series, Harry said: “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 quietly sit there and sort of take it all in.”
The “urgent meeting” was called by the Queen at Sandringham to discuss new roles for both Harry and Meghan, and to resolve what Buckingham Palace called “complicated issues” surrounding their status in the family.
He also denied claims that it was Meghan’s decision to stand down.
“In fact, it was my decision. She never asked to leave. I was the one that had to see it for myself. But it's misogyny at its best,” he said.
In the series, Harry claimed after the meeting spin doctors at the palace “were happy to lie to protect my brother”.
He said: “A story came out saying part of the reason 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 had been put out 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. No one had asked me permission to put out a statement like that.”
He added: “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.”
Buckingham Palace has not responded to any of the claims made in the tell-all documentary series.
In the final episode, the Duke of Sussex said he believed a miscarriage Meghan suffered after their move to Santa Barbara was caused by a legal battle with the publisher of the Mail on Sunday newspaper, which published a letter she wrote to her father.
Meghan said on the series: “I was pregnant and really wasn’t sleeping and the first morning we woke up in our new house was when I miscarried."
Harry added: “I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did.
“I watched the whole thing. Now, do I absolutely know that the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course I don’t.
“But bearing in mind the stress that caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw that the miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her.”
Speaking about the miscarriage, her mother, Doria Ragland, added: “I thought she was brave and courageous. But that doesn’t surprise me because she is brave and courageous.”
Meghan later won her privacy case against the publisher over the publication of the letter.
Elsewhere in the series, Meghan spoke candidly about the moment she was asked if she was OK by a journalist on a tour of South Africa after just becoming a new mother.
The clip went around the world. “I was so exhausted I was just really grateful that someone seemed to ask me something like I was a human being,” she said. “I didn’t even think they’d use it in the documentary.”
Harry also told how a letter he wrote to Charles suggesting he and Meghan move to Canada to work as royals was leaked to the press.
“It became clear that the institution had leaked the fact that we were moving back to Canada," he said.
“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.”
The couple also described their feelings on their last week as working royals before they headed to Canada under the glare of the world’s media, describing it as “sad” and “emotional”.
They later settled in Montecito, California.
