[airplane roars]
Good morning. It's 6:00 a.m. on 14th March
and we are on the freedom flight. [chuckles]
We are leaving Canada
and we are headed to Los Angeles.
Shh!
[Harry] Grandma's here.
- Hi. - [Harry] Hi, Grandma.
[Harry] Pula's here with a ball in her mouth.
I wonder what would have happened to us had we not got out when we did.
Our location was exposed. We knew our security was being pulled.
Everyone in the world knew where we were.
Archie, say hi. We're about to go where Mommy's from.
[Harry] So busy.
I just knew the stress that they were under. It felt like they were running.
This is the current situation.
Thanks to another amazing friend who we've never met,
but who believes in us and wants to help.
[soft music playing]
[emotive theme music playing]
[emotive theme music finishes]
[female interviewer] Tell me how you first got in touch with Meghan.
Um, you know, I'm not a, a royal watcher.
I... I don't really pay attention to a lot of stuff,
but I saw something about her father.
[reporter 1] Posing for the paparazzi...
[reporter 2] In exchange for photos, he got cash...
[reporter 3] This is tabloid fodder.
They are going crazy with this story this morning.
I found it to be hurtful if he were my father.
And I couldn't even imagine this woman finding the man that she loved,
the man of her dreams and him being a prince,
and then to walk into all of that madness
and need the security of family, and then have,
you know, your father do some horrible things.
[male reporter] We just broke a big, fat story.
[female reporter] It says it clearly. Meghan's dad not going to the wedding.
When my life changed and success started to come,
family members became different people.
And I know how hurtful and how horrible it can be.
[crowd cheering]
[Tyler] I immediately empathized with her.
This was before the wedding. And I sent her a note,
just praying for her just to be able to move through it
and hold on, and let her know that everything in her life
had prepared her for this moment, or so I thought.
- [crowd cheering] - [poignant piano music playing]
[Meghan] That's where Tyler came into the picture. I'd never met him before.
He sent me a letter before the wedding just saying he was praying for me.
And that if I ever need anything, he would be there.
[bell chimes]
[Meghan] Months and months and months went by.
[Meghan whispering] Okay. Go on.
[Meghan] And then one day, when we were in Canada, I had called him.
Finally, after years at that point, first time we ever spoke...
and I was just a wreck, I was just crying and crying.
Sometimes it's easier to just open up to someone who knows nothing at all.
And that was that moment with me and Tyler.
I could hear the fear.
It was palpable. I mean, I could hear it.
So I asked her, what was she afraid of?
And she took a deep breath and she started listing the things, "I'm afraid of..."
And I said to her, "Every one of your fears are valid."
You know, the most that I knew about the royal family
was around Princess Diana's death.
[man] Get down.
[man] No.
[photographer] One without the tennis racket?
- [Diana] No. - [photographer] Please.
[Tyler] There's a moment I'll never forget where she's walking through the airport
and she has a tennis racket in front of her face
and she's trying to get away from the press, and they're all over her.
And I realized that, after the marriage ended,
she was thrown to the wolves.
[indistinct chatter]
- [Princess Diana] Out. Out. - [security man] Out, out. Out.
- Out. Out. O-U-T, out. - [photographer] Have a nice trip, ma'am.
So to tell Meghan that I felt her feelings were valid hurt.
I didn't want to have to say that to her. I didn't want her to feel that.
But I didn't want to lie to her.
[soft music playing]
[Tyler] She was afraid of them destroying her, or going crazy,
or them making her think she was crazy.
[woman 1] British public opinion is that it's all Meghan's fault.
- [woman 2] She's a controlling woman. - [man] The tabloids have turned.
[Tyler] I saw my mother be abused for years.
I knew the symptoms. I knew what it was like.
Everyone's like, "Tyler, how dare you compare this to the abuse of your mother?"
This woman was abused. And so was he.
[woman 1] They're trying to upset everybody.
[man 1] The Queen will be feeling very let down and very angry.
- [woman 2] ...blindsided... - [man 2] No idea the statement was coming.
[Tyler] To use the institution to try and do all the things a batterer would do,
like, "We're gonna cut off the money. We're gonna not leave you security."
"We're gonna do all those things to make you comply and come back."
And for the both of them to have the wherewithal to say,
"I don't give a damn if it's the palace. I'm out of here," I applauded that.
We stayed in touch, and when we needed to go, he said,
"What can we do to make it easier? How can I help you?"
[soft piano music playing]
[Harry] So this was like a week before COVID.
And we'd be stuck at this house
where everyone in the world knew where we were. Unprotected, no security.
[Tyler] They just wanted to be free.
They wanted to be free to love and be happy.
They didn't... They did not have a plan.
Everyone's like, "Oh, there's this..." There was no plan.
[Meghan] He's like, "My house is safe. I'll make sure you have security."
"Take your time."
I was like, "If we could stay for a week, then we can find somewhere we can live."
He's like, "You're not gonna stay a week. You're gonna stay as long as you need."
"I'm gonna get you there safely."
"And I'm gonna keep you there safely until you have somewhere to go."
For the first six weeks that we were here, we were able to walk around like this.
- Yeah. - [Harry] The two of us would be up here.
- Archie, sort of walking along here. - [Tyler] Yeah.
The dogs running around.
[Tyler] You hadn't seen the house.
[Harry] We only saw you filming from the gate up to your door
and seeing the big fountain there.
- We're like, "That'll do." Just like... - [Tyler laughs]
[Tyler] What if I had horrible taste and a big, round bed with stripper poles?
It wouldn't have... It wouldn't have mattered.
We were so... We were desperate to find someone...
- Desperate to be somewhere for... - [Tyler] Yeah.
- You know, a long... - [Tyler] To settle.
We had... We had... We had, um... We had 13 suitcases, I remember.
You said, "Stay as long as you need to." We're like, "Maybe we just stay forever."
- [Meghan] Good boy, Guy. - [Guy panting]
[soft piano music plays]
[Meghan] So we finally get a little slice of freedom.
[Meghan laughs] How you feeling, my love?
Will you go long ways?
- I think it's better. - [Meghan] Ever the director.
[Harry] It was bliss. Because no one knew we were there.
[Meghan] I spy our security guy.
- Where is he? - [Harry] Matt's hiding in the bush.
- [Meghan] Do you see? He's right there. - [dog panting]
Look at it. It's amazing we found this place.
[Harry] Guy!
[Meghan] It's secret, and so at least during COVID-19,
we can take the dogs for a walk
and have a little slice of normal life.
Come on! Come on.
[Meghan] Let's get back home to Archie.
And then we've been... [laughs]
[dogs panting]
My family.
[baby laughing]
[Meghan] Hey!
For me, it didn't matter where they landed, you know. I...
I just wanted them to be happy, and so that I could be with them.
- [Meghan squeals] - [Archie laughs]
And obviously not having to take any long flights made a heck of a difference.
[Archie squeals]
[Meghan] Where are we walking?
[Meghan] Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
Archie took his very first steps right here.
- I mean, this house was... - Here.
Right here.
- [Harry] What's going on, my love? - [Meghan chuckles]
We are making this balloon arch for Archie's first birthday...
- [Harry] It doesn't look like an arch. - It'll get there.
- [Harry] Will it? - We have to blow all these up.
- [Harry] Hey! - And use these.
And... follow the instructions.
[Harry] Great.
[blows raspberry]
[poignant piano music playing]
[Harry] We were there for six weeks. No one knew.
My family still thought I was in Canada.
Every day, I would look on the... Google. "Nope, they don't know yet!"
We talked and they'd laugh, and they were doing so well. They'd send me videos.
[Meghan] Our son turned one today.
- And it's beautiful out. - It's gorgeous out.
[Meghan] And it's not our home. But we're grateful.
But there's a world in which it could be our home.
[both laughing]
[female reporter] Tyler Perry joins us now from Atlanta.
It's been widely reported
that Meghan and Harry are living at your place in Los Angeles.
Can you tell us how they're doing?
- You speak English? - I'm sorry.
I think I just lost... I just lost you. I just lost you, Gayle.
I'm sorry. We have a bad, really bad connection.
So, here we are, two days after Archie's birthday,
uh, and a day after the Mail...
And a day after the Mail, um,
once again pinpointed our location and put it on their website.
[mouse clicking]
[Harry] It was six weeks into us being in Canada that they found out,
and it was six weeks to us being in Tyler's house that they found out.
[Harry] Anyway, let me just show you what we're having to now do.
And these large poles are basically the construction of a fence
to stop paparazzi from taking photographs from three, four hundred meters away.
And as ridiculous and as absurd as this is,
you kind of have to laugh about it, because it is madness.
[tense music playing]
[Harry whispering] It's almost five in the morning.
Archie's waking up because of this.
[Meghan] Oh my God. They're just circling.
What is wrong with these people?
[Tyler] I've been in that house for many, many years,
and across the canyon are all these other celebrities,
and no one had seen an assault like this.
[Meghan] Haz, is my mom outside with Archie?
[Tyler] With helicopters 24/7.
- [Harry] The second one today. - [Tyler] Drones flying over it.
We would go up every day, the chain link on the fence would be cut
and people would sneak in onto my property.
I had to put all the cameras up on the hill there.
Had to plant more trees, all just... Just... It was just... It was crazy.
[Harry] What are you doing?
I am writing more things, um...
to battle the Mail.
And their insanity.
[tense music continues]
[Meghan] This entire case against Associated Newspapers
which has the Mail and the Mail Online, it was about a letter I wrote to my dad.
[wistful music playing]
The Mail published it. They know that it's unlawful to do so.
That's all this is about. Just apologize... and don't do it again.
It's really that simple.
But instead it's like, "Or..."
[clicks tongue]
"...let's make a fortune."
"Let's create an entire tab on our homepage with her name..."
[sad music playing]
"...and just run constant stuff on this litigation,
and twist and turn things to create an implant with members of the public."
They're saying this was all part of my strategy and tactic
to have a better reputation.
[Meghan] Then the defense says, "We'd like disclosure from you."
"We need to access your email and your phone
for this case, based on these terms,"
"I love you."
"Archie."
"Kate."
"William."
- "Africa." - "Africa."
Sorry, what? What does that have to do with this lawsuit?
[Harry] My darling wife has just been sent the skeleton argument
of the ridiculousness of the Mail case.
[Meghan] Archie wasn't even born when you published the letter I wrote to my dad.
- They are making a fortune off of us. - [Harry] The press will never settle.
They will always push, because they will use a privacy litigation
to further invade your privacy, like they did with my wife.
But my mum always said,
"If they're writing crap about you in the tabloids,
you're probably doing the right thing."
So I've always felt as though this was a fight worth fighting for.
[tense music playing]
[Jenny] The tabloids pretty much run the argument that,
if you're in the public eye, you've given up your rights to privacy.
In this case, the Mail on Sunday ran the whole kitchen sink defense.
They threw everything in.
Things like, "Um, Meghan's not entitled to any privacy,
because she's a member of the royal family."
"If she didn't want us to publish her letter,
she should have been nicer to her father."
How many people...
[Jenny] Meghan and I would be texting at 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. her time.
She'd be awake, unable to sleep,
thinking about this case, and the wider issues,
and the toll it was taking.
[reporter 1] The couple's war with the tabloids now escalating.
[reporter 2] Harry and Meghan are going to have to give up more intimate details
to prove their case, and therefore, it does seem a bit self-defeating.
[Jenny] I knew the stress the latest development was having on Meghan,
and that was that the Mail were going to argue that Meghan's friends
had already spoken about the letter to People Magazine
and that Meghan had authorized that interview, which she hadn't.
[female presenter] Meghan is going to deny any involvement in interviews
given by five of her friends to People Magazine.
[Meghan] I don't know how many pages the article itself was,
but within it there were,
I think, a few sentences
that pertained to my father and the fact that I'd reached out to him.
We all knew that Meghan had written her father a letter.
I did not catch in that People Magazine story
that someone mentioned the letter.
[female voice] It was this People story that referenced Thomas Markle's letter
and prompted him to share it with the Mail on Sunday.
You even do something in total love, and that is for good,
and they find one piece,
and then it becomes this whole other thing.
They ran the false claim
that Meghan had authorized this interview with People Magazine.
So the argument was she had therefore given up all rights,
anything to do with the letter whatsoever.
And Associated said all of her friends' identities should be revealed
as part of the case.
[Meghan] I said, "Absolutely not."
I just felt it was important to protect them
in the way that they were trying to protect me.
And that was right in the same week that we moved into our home in Santa Barbara.
[Abigail] I'm driving up like, "We're gonna unpack. We're gonna get settled."
And Meg is standing outside, waiting for me, and I can tell something's off.
She's showing me the home. It's very mixed emotions,
"Here's our new home," but she's like,
"I'm having a lot of pain."
She was holding Archie and she just fell to the ground and...
[exhales loudly, sniffling]
I was pregnant, I really wasn't sleeping.
And, um...
The first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried.
[Harry] I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did.
I watched the whole thing.
Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was created, caused by that?
Course we don't.
But bearing in mind the stress that 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 miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her.
[sad music playing]
[keyboard clicking]
[Doria] I thought she was brave and courageous.
But that doesn't surprise me, because she is brave and courageous.
Yeah.
[Meghan] 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 okay. You're human. It's okay 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.
[male presenter] It really resonates when you read about her in hospital
with her husband, Prince Harry.
Uh, she describes him as heartbroken,
trying to think what she can ask him, and she simply says, "Are you okay?"
[woman] Everybody can relate to that question, "Are you okay?"
And do we ask it to each other often enough?
[female presenter] The piece is also very much a rallying cry
for people to support each other during what she describes
as "a year of loss and pain for every one of us."
Buckingham Palace says it won't be commenting on a deeply personal matter.
[Harry] Archie, come say hi to the team.
Say, "Hi, James."
[Archie] Hi, James.
- [Harry] "Hi, Michael." - [Archie] Hi, Michael.
- [Harry] And "Hi, Christine." - [Archie] Hi, Christine.
- [Meghan] Oh! - [Harry laughing]
- [Meghan] That's so good! - [Harry] Good job.
Uh, it's been... It's been... It's been a busy week!
[man] It's been a week.
[Tim Burt] They wanted to continue with their non-royal patronages
and causes around mental health,
around the environment, around gender equity.
I love investing in female entrepreneurs,
so this is the kind of stuff I spend a lot of time looking at.
[Tim Burt] Increasingly, as the pandemic started to take hold,
around vaccine equity.
[soft piano music playing]
[Harry] My wife and I believe...
[crown cheering]
[Harry laughs]
My wife and I believe that where you're born
should not dictate your ability to survive.
[crowd cheering]
[Tim Burt] And it was really a kind of fact-finding exercise
about the areas that they could be activists around,
and the areas where they could convene groups together.
We've partnered with the team here
to create the NAACP Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award.
I mean, one of the things that we've continued to say
is if we're gonna have this glaring microscope on us at all times,
if people are looking at us, then look at what we're looking at.
The only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.
[soft music playing]
Because... George Floyd's life mattered, and Breonna Taylor's life mattered,
and Philando Castile's life mattered, and Tamir Rice's life mattered.
[Meghan] Oh my gosh.
- [car horn hoots] - [crowd clamoring]
[Meghan] And so did so many other people
whose names we know and whose names we do not know.
[woman on TV] This is the police chief. Have you ever heard that in your life?
I know, sometimes people say, "How many times do we need to rebuild?"
Well, you know what? We are going to rebuild
and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuilt.
[Harry humming]
♪ Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight ♪
[Meghan whispering indistinctly]
[Archie babbles]
[Meghan] What's Papa doing? Are we getting oranges?
Are you... Yes. Can you put them in the basket?
Ready? Catch. Oh.
["Brand New Day" by Miriam Makeba playing]
[Meghan] I know. There's Pula.
- [Harry squeals] - ♪ When all the dark clouds roll away ♪
♪ And the sun begins to shine... ♪
No, let's go.
[laughing]
♪ I see my freedom from across the way ♪
♪ And it comes right in on time ♪
♪ Well, it shines so bright And it gives... ♪
[Doria] Nice try. Are you trying to bunt the ball?
♪ And it comes right from the sky above... ♪
[Meghan] Hello. Bonjour. [laughs]
♪ Makes me feel so free ♪
♪ Makes me feel like me, yeah... ♪
- [Meghan] We've gone rogue. - We've gone rogue.
[Meghan] See us come down here.
We're gonna have the beach to ourself, or there's gonna be, like, a filming set
on the beach we've just walked to.
[Harry laughing]
He's so fun.
- ♪ And it seems like ♪ - ♪ Seems like ♪
- ♪ Oh, yes, it feels like ♪ - ♪ Feels like ♪
♪ A brand new day... ♪
[Harry] This is really cold. Woo!
♪ A brand new day, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Oh yeah ♪ - ♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪
- And also, we're pregnant. - [Harry gasps]
♪ Double crossed... ♪
- Oh, my goodness. My love. - ♪ With my hands behind my back ♪
♪ I was long time hurt... ♪
[Harry] Beautiful. Our own beach.
♪ And thrown in the dirt Shoved out on a railroad track... ♪
It was funny, because I'm talking and they both look a little smirky.
A little like, "Hm." And I was like, "Something's..."
Like, they're smiling a bit too much. It's a Zoom.
You know, "What's going on?"
And um, near the end of the Zoom, you know, Meg stands up.
♪ But I stood and looked... ♪
[Misan] I just freak out. I freak out.
Because I know what they've been through to get to that place.
And, uh, they're like, "It's gotta be you,
helping us tell the world that we have new life in our lives."
- ♪ And it seems like and it feels like ♪ - ♪ Seems like, feels like... ♪
[Misan] It felt, at least I could do something
to use my imagery to almost protect them if I could.
- ♪ A brand new day, ooh ♪ - ♪ A brand new day, yeah ♪
- ♪ A brand new day ♪ - ♪ A brand new day, yeah... ♪
[Harry] Once we announced it,
I got two messages from two completely different people
who sent me the front page
of Valentine's Day, 1984,
of my mother announcing that she was pregnant with me.
I was shocked.
We had no idea. It was just a coincidence.
Or maybe not a coincidence.
[reporter] On the heels of Harry and Meghan's pregnancy announcement,
the couple will now share their story publicly,
giving Oprah Winfrey their first interview since they stepped away from...
[interviewer] Tell us about the thinking about sitting with Oprah.
Um, well, Oprah had originally reached out to us
through the communications director at Kensington Palace.
There was excitement. I remember that. [laughing] And then I think we talked...
Well, yeah, 'cause Oprah... Oprah, to you, is like...
- It's Oprah! - Yeah.
- ♪ Happy birthday, dear Meghan ♪ - [Meghan] No way.
- [man] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ - [Meghan] Thank you.
Yay! Yay!
The timing of when we would talk to her just kept changing.
[both laughing]
- [Harry] We made it to the beach. - We made it to the beach.
[Harry] Doing what everybody else does.
[Harry] We were here for a year.
[chicken clucking]
We've got chickens!
[Harry] Until we actually did it.
And sitting down with Oprah was a reaction to what had happened that year.
The more distance that came between us having a smaller role with the institution
and coming over here, the more of a vacuum was being built.
And people just genuinely didn't understand why we left.
We thought that was the beginning of our year of transition, which it turns out
was anything but a transition.
It was just a beating. [clears throat]
They are three of the most recognizable people on the planet.
Oprah, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
And they're now coming together for one of the biggest interviews of the decade.
[male presenter] But before that sit-down is set to premiere, Buckingham Palace,
in an unprecedented move,
opened an investigation into bullying allegations against Meghan.
The timing of the bullying story
has even been admitted by the journalist that wrote it
that it was done
explicitly because of the Oprah interview.
Harry and Meghan's spokesperson tells us and The Times this,
"The Duchess is saddened by this latest attack on her character,
particularly as someone who has been the target of bullying herself
and is deeply committed to supporting those
who have experienced pain and trauma."
"Let's just call it what it is."
"A calculated smear campaign based on misleading and harmful misinformation."
You could tell... I was like, "Oh my gosh, someone's panicking over there."
[reporter] A long-simmering feud between Harry and Meghan, and palace staff,
people Princess Diana called "the men in grey suits",
is boiling over with this explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey.
I can't think what my mum went through all those years ago by herself.
To see this institutional gaslighting that happens is...
It is extraordinary.
Um, and that's why everything that's happened to us
was always gonna happen to us.
Because if you speak truth to power, that's how they respond.
[Oprah] Tonight, for the first time, they tell their story.
[Meghan] That interview, it was less about setting the record straight
than at least filling in the blanks that other people were filling in for us.
...and when you say, "Was it what it looked like?"
My understanding and my experience of the past four years
is it's nothing like what it looks like.
Whatever we were creating and whatever new path we were trying to forge,
you couldn't really do that without some clarity.
[Oprah] So how does that work? Were you told to keep silent?
How were you told to handle tabloids?
Everyone in my world, um, was given a very clear directive
from the moment the world knew Harry and I were dating
to always say, "No comment."
- And we did. - Mm-hm.
I did anything they told me to do. Of course I did.
Because it was also through the lens of, "And we'll protect you."
[Oprah] There's a conversation about how dark your baby is going to be?
That conversation I am never going to share.
[Oprah] You said in a podcast that it became almost un-survivable.
And that struck me, because it sounds like you were in some kind of mental trouble.
What was actually going on?
I would sit up at night, and I was just like,
"I don't understand how all of this is being churned out."
I wasn't seeing it,
but it's almost worse when you feel it through the expression of my mom
or my friends, or them calling me crying, just like,
"Meg. They're not protecting you."
And I realized that it was all happening just because I was breathing,
and I just didn't... I just didn't want to be alive anymore.
We didn't see it until the world saw it. And it's interesting.
I thought that me being very open about
the depression that I experienced and just how extreme that became...
I thought that would be the biggest takeaway.
[Oprah] Thank you both for trusting me to share your story.
[Meghan] Thank you for giving us the space to do it.
[Harry] Thank you.
[Meghan laughing]
Oh my God. [groans]
[Meghan] But it was entirely eclipsed by the conversation surrounding race.
[bird tweets]
[phone ringing]
[Meghan] Hey, Mommy.
[Doria] Hey, what's going on?
[Meghan] Not much. I saw I missed you. Where are you?
[Doria] I just finished walking... Finishing walking the dog.
Nice. Has it been... Has it been noisy around your house? Is anyone there?
- [Doria] No. Actually, no. - Good. Good.
[Doria] Which has been nice. Yeah, I feel proud.
You certainly never deserved any of this.
I mean, I've been getting tons of texts about how people are so
in support of you and how you were able to carry yourself so well.
- [Meghan] Thank you. - [Doria] Yeah.
Keep your big girl panties on.
[Meghan] Thank you. I will.
- [Doria] Okay, I love you. - The biggest. I love you too.
- [Doria] Bye. - [Meghan] Bye.
- [Meghan] Beyoncé just texted. - [Harry gasps]
[Meghan] Really... [chuckles]
- Shut up. - [Meghan] Just checking in.
Just checking in. Just casual.
I still can't believe... I still can't believe she knows who I am.
Go and call her.
No, it's okay. 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
that need to be healed.
Hmm.
That's well said.
[reporter 1] Have you spoken to your brother since the interview?
[Prince William] I haven't spoken with him yet, but I will do.
[reporter] And can you let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir?
[Prince William] We're very much not.
[reporter 2] Sir, what did you think of the interview?
[man] Oh. Thank you very much.
[Tyler] When I watched, I thought...
"There's so much more she could have said."
But because she's such a classy, elegant woman, she didn't.
- [Tyler] Hey. - Hi.
[Tyler] The Palace issued a statement, I understand, but I haven't read it.
[Meghan] Yeah, let me pull it up.
The following statement
issued by Buckingham Palace on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen.
"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent
of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan."
"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning."
"While some recollections may vary,
they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately."
"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much-loved family members."
What am I looking at?
- Wow. - [Harry sniffling]
H just got a text... H just got a text from his brother.
[Tyler] Oh. Yeah. Okay. You guys do that.
All right, I'll talk to you later on. Thank you.
[Tyler] I'll see you guys... - We'll see you on Friday.
Okay, bye. Thank you, thank you. Bye.
I wish I knew what to do.
I know. Let's take a breather. Get some air and then decide.
Um...
- [guitar music playing] - [Harry humming]
I can put them in um, separate little bags so we can divide and conquer.
Hey, Grandma. Have we decided what the course is gonna be?
[Meghan] I think what makes the most sense is to have them start right here.
- [Harry] By the bridge? - [Meghan] Yep.
- [Harry] So down, down that side... - Let's go outside and...
Back across the bridge, up the side of the stream to this bridge here.
- [Meghan] Mm-hm. - Great. Love it.
Done, easy. That's why we're married.
All for that?
The simplicity, really.
[Meghan giggles]
[Harry] Come on, family. Let's go.
[melancholic music playing]
[indistinct voices on phone]
My grandfather always cruised around in a black taxi in London.
So all of the black taxis have...
lined up all the way down the Mall outside Buckingham Palace.
I don't know if you can see it.
[man 1] Have a look at this. This is outside the palace now.
[cabby] Every single black cab in London, looks like they're paying their respects.
Who'd have thought about that, eh? Incredible.
[cabby] Unbelievable, innit? Look, as far...
That's nice.
Oh my God. How is it ten to twelve?
- [Harry groans] - Um...
Quickly... I looked at the, um, UK website
about the access to be able to have a shorter quarantine period.
Yeah.
The earliest you can do the test upon landing is five days after you land.
- So you have to leave tomorrow. - Okay.
And get tested Friday.
- Can I get out tomorrow? - Yeah.
Okay.
Same flight, Maddie's on the phone with American Airlines now.
[door shuts]
[car engine starts]
[wistful music playing]
[Harry] My grandfather was a man of service, honor, and great humor.
He will be remembered as the longest reigning consort to the monarch,
a decorated serviceman, a prince, and a duke.
But to me, he was my grandpa.
Master of the barbecue, legend of banter, and cheeky right till the end.
[Nicky] Harry's respect for his grandfather
was monumentally deep,
and I think a lot of the characteristics that, you know, I love in Harry
are slightly grandfather related.
You know, that ability to put people at ease,
to be fun and to not be stiff and serious,
I think come from him.
- I know the admiration was huge. - [wistful music continues]
To be walking behind the coffin again
must have brought up some other stuff as well.
I don't have the, uh, qualifications to unpick that, but it must have been a lot.
[Harry] I was actually really happy for my grandfather.
He went quietly. He went peacefully. He went happily.
[interviewer] Tell me about going back.
What was that like?
[Harry] Um, it was hard.
Especially spending time, having chats with my brother and my father,
who just, you know, were very much,
um, focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation.
So neither... None of us really wanted to have to talk about it
at my grandfather's funeral, but we did.
Um, and, you know, I've had to make peace with the fact
that we're probably never gonna get genuine accountability
or a genuine apology.
You know, my wife and I, we're... We're moving on.
We're focused on the... On what's coming next.
[Meghan chuckles]
[baby cooing]
- [Meghan] It's okay. - [Harry] It's okay.
[Meghan] Here we go. You ready to eat? Let's have some milk.
Oh.
[baby whimpering]
[Meghan] Oh.
[soft music plays]
[Meghan] Hi, Lili.
[Meghan] There was something that felt so complete once we had Lilibet.
Everyone just really respected that we've been through so much
and that we, like any parent,
deserve to just welcome their child into the world peacefully,
and have that time as a family to nurture and cocoon.
Which we did, with the addition of our little toddler.
[Meghan] Flowers for Mommy? Thank you. Can I have a kiss?
[kissing sound]
[Harry] I think at the moment, I see a lot of my wife in Archie.
- [Harry] I see a lot of my mum in Lili. - Mm.
She's very Spencer-like. She's got the same blue eyes.
Blue, blue, blue eyes.
Sort of like a... golden-reddish hair.
Mm-hmm.
[Meghan] Oh boy! Are you walking?
[Meghan laughing] Okay.
[Tyler] We'll call, we'll chat, and we'll talk about silly things.
And they were pretty serious on the phone. I go, "Okay, what's going on?"
They said, "Well, we'd like for you to be Lili's godfather." I go, "Whoa."
I had to take a minute to take that in.
And I thought,
"I'd be honored. I'd absolutely be honored."
And I got off the phone, took it all in and then called them back.
I go, "Uh, hold on a second."
"Does this mean we got to go over there and do all of that in the church with them
and figure all that out? I don't want to do that."
"Maybe we can do a little private ceremony here and let that be that,
and if you have to do it there, then that's okay."
♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪
♪ Twinkle, twinkle little star ♪
- ♪ How I wonder what you are ♪ - [Serena] They're creating their family.
And, um... [chuckles] ...friends can be family too.
[cheering]
Parvati! Parvati!
Josie!
[Serena] They can start something fresh and new and hope that one day
that family on both ends will be able to understand that this is truly love.
[all] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
Archie, do you want to come help blow out the candles? Come help.
[woman] Yay!
Oh my... Yeah!
- [soft music playing] - [Harry humming]
[Harry] Eugenie's in town.
[Harry laughing] Where are we?
- [Eugenie] At the Superbowl! - [Harry] At the Superbowl!
[Harry] You gotta grab him, Eugenie. You gotta grab him!
[Harry yells]
[Harry] Trousers are falling down. [laughing]
Good job.
[bird cawing]
[Harry] Just seeing Archie running across the lawn and this big smile...
This is the world that he knows.
He spent his first five months in Windsor. That was it.
This is home to him. This is home to Lili.
"I need to walk away!"
And this is our home.
[laughing]
♪ Riding down the promenade ♪
[Harry] I get to do things with our kids I would never be able to do in the UK.
- [Meghan] Woo! - [dog barking]
[Meghan laughing]
He's deep in some sort of legal email, I can tell.
[Jenny] Meghan's case against Associated Newspapers
had gone on several years.
At the beginning of 2021, the judge said,
"We don't need to have a trial or disclosure."
"I'm deciding the case now. I'm calling it in Meghan's favor."
Then, uh, Associated predictably appealed.
It was all, we thought, just an opportunity to generate more clickbait.
When all of this started, I had no children.
And now I have birthed two and lost one. And it's still going on.
[Jenny] When we were just about to go to the Court of Appeal,
a senior member of the Duke of Cambridge's team
came forward to give this witness statement which wasn't required.
[soft piano music playing]
[Jenny] And sadly, there's just no way he could have done that without, um,
the authority of his bosses.
The Mail on Sunday was arguing all the way through this
that actually this letter wasn't private
because she shared a draft with her former press secretary
and she shared some text messages with him.
Even during the course of those text messages, Meghan said,
"Obviously everything I have drafted is with the understanding it could leak."
- [Harry] Let me deal with it. - How do we deal with that?
Like, how on earth... Like...
[woman] He works for his brother. Like...
[Meghan] But that... I know.
- Like that... Like, I... It's your brother. - [Harry] Yep.
I'm not gonna say anything about your brother, but it's so obvious.
- It's like, all... - [Harry] It's even more...
It's even more obvious that they'll try and cover it up.
Again, "Jason, the former aide of Meghan and Harry," as opposed to...
[woman] Why are we talking about him as her former aide
and not as the person who works for your brother?
That's why I'm now living in a different country.
Because all the comms teams basically like
try to outdo each other, but this is the...
This is the contract.
The symbiotic relationship between the two institutions working
the best that they can.
[instrumental music playing]
[Meghan] Okay. Thank you.
[reporter 1] Is Meghan manipulating the media?
[reporter 2] Thank you for your text messages as well.
ER says, "Of course Meghan's manipulating the media."
"Good for her, I say. They manipulate us enough."
Chris said she likes to control the narrative...
[Meghan] Thank you.
[man] I just wanted to ask you, you know, about the appeal,
and how you feel about it,
and also just how you feel about these issues of privacy.
It's an arduous process. But it's just me standing up for what's right.
Which I think is important across the board,
be it in this case or in the other things we've been talking about today.
At a certain point,
no matter how difficult it is, if you know the difference between right and wrong,
you must stand up for what's right, and that's what I'm doing.
[exhales sharply]
[Harry] It's just before 2 a.m.
And we're ringing the team in the UK
to get the results of the appeal.
So, just quickly, while we're waiting for Jenny to call...
- [Meghan] Hm? - [Harry] How do you feel?
I just... I basically just feel like a little bit nauseous.
I just don't know. Like...
I know they're confident, but I just want it all to be over.
[Jenny] Hey. Congratulations.
[Harry and Meghan laughing]
[Meghan sighs]
- [Meghan] Oh. - [Harry sighs]
[Meghan] Oh, Jenny. Thank you for...
- [Jenny] I know. - Thank you for not milking that.
Thank you for not playing...
[Jenny and Meghan laughing]
[Mandana] How are you feeling?
I don't know. Maybe now I'm gonna eat some of the ice cream you sent.
[Isabelle] Fuck, yeah!
[Isabelle squeals]
On every level, this is so satisfying and sensational!
You did this. And you, H.
My ongoing joke of late
has been like H is just like Mr. Justice Man. Mr. Justice Man.
And the California version of this needs to be Mr. Just-Is, man!
[laughing]
[male reporter] Meghan Markle got a court-mandated front page mea culpa
from a UK tabloid over the weekend.
The statement from Mail on Sunday stopped short of an apology,
but it did acknowledge Markle's legal victory.
[soft music playing]
The witness statement had no legal significance on the case whatsoever,
other than to actually vindicate a lot of what Meghan had been saying
about how the letter was never intended to be published.
But it was filed because the impact on Meghan's reputation
was potentially damaging.
The reporting skewered things to make it look, falsely, as if Meghan had lied,
which she absolutely hadn't.
As has been proven time and time again,
there's an incentive for the British media to get you to trial.
Because they can make so much money, and it creates such a circus around it,
which is exactly what they did here.
And if we don't have the resource, or the capability, or the capacity
to be able to stand up to these people, then no one else does.
- [Harry] Hey-o. - [Meghan] Hi!
- Nice to meet you. - [woman] Nice to meet you too.
- [woman] Everyone is off to the right. - Thank you.
- [Meghan] Hi! - [Harry] Hi guys!
[woman] Okay, so each episode...
[Harry] Everyone's so dressed up. Thank God I didn't wear jeans.
[Meghan] We have a good friend, and every year at New Year's,
she goes around the table and asks who's sitting there at dinner,
"What is your word for this year?"
And a few years ago, when I heard that, I was like,
"Oh, what is my word? Not a resolution. What is your word?"
And I thought...
[sighs] "My word is peace. Peace. It's got to be peace. All I want is peace."
And I went, "Nope. I can't have peace without truth."
My word for that year was truth.
- Happy Holidays! - Happy holidays, happy holidays.
- [Meghan] Thank you, guys! - [Harry] Cheers, guys. Cheers, cheers.
Rick, you're up.
[Meghan] And then by the next year, oh, here we are again.
Truth. We got some truth out. Finally, people are gonna know some truths.
But it hasn't given us peace. It's like my word has to be peace.
It was around that time that I was like, "I just want peace."
And part of that, for me, is reclaiming.
You know, when you've lost a huge piece of yourself,
getting that back includes getting back those relationships
and those friendships and things that anchor you to who you are.
[sentimental music playing]
Ashleigh was a huge part of that for me.
And then, you know, she came back into my life then at the end of last year.
[Meghan] Hello!
[Ashleigh] Hello. Hi, baby girl. Hi.
- [Meghan] I texted her. - [Ashleigh] Thank you. What you doing?
[Meghan] And she was immediately just happy to be reconnected.
[Ashleigh] I missed you. You're so big.
[Meghan] Good job! Are you making zucchini muffins?
[Ashleigh] I was there at Christmas.
- [Archie] What's... - All the sides. Get everything mixed in.
I missed so much of Archie's life, but it doesn't necessarily feel like it.
I think we immediately kind of
had this bond.
So just kind of to experience them growing up,
feeling like I'm in their life, that has been really good.
- [Meghan] Here's some more. - [Ashleigh] Tomatoes.
- [Meghan] Some more. - [Ashleigh] Your tomatoes!
[Meghan] Look at this one! Ah, it's so big!
[Meghan] But part of what's beautiful here is the freedom
to have family moments out in the world.
[Meghan] Oh, we're gonna see the horses. Yay!
[Meghan] And I want our kids to be able to do that and to be able to travel.
And to fall in love, you know. I just want them to be happy.
- [lively music playing] - [Archie laughing]
The world that they see is how I would love the world to be.
They don't... They don't need to worry about the things that we worry about.
[both laughing]
- [Archie] Ball? - [Meghan] Ball?
[Meghan laughing]
- [Harry] Again? - [Archie] Again.
- [Harry laughs] - [Archie grunts]
[Archie laughing]
♪ Follow ♪
♪ Follow the sun ♪
♪ And which way the wind blows ♪
♪ When this day is done ♪
♪ Breathe... ♪
[interviewer] Are there things that you miss about life in the institution?
[Harry] Yeah, I mean, I miss the...
The weird family gatherings when we're all sort of brought together under one roof
for, you know, certain times of the year.
Um, that I miss.
Um, you know, being part of the institution meant that I was in the UK.
So I miss the UK. I miss my friends.
Um, and I've lost...
I've lost a few friends in this process as well.
I mean, I came here because I was changed.
I changed to the point that I'd outgrown my environment.
Therefore, this was the most obvious place to come.
You know, it's one of the places where I think my mum
was probably gonna end up living potentially.
You know.
♪ So follow ♪
Follow the sun ♪
♪ The direction of the birds ♪
♪ The direction of love ♪
♪ Breathe, breathe in the air ♪
♪ Cherish this moment ♪
♪ Cherish this breath... ♪
[Ignacio] Harry was always looking for a simpler life.
More, uh, human, you know.
A husband and a wife, with two kids and two dogs.
Thinking about, you know, what's for dinner and, you know,
what's our schedule look like tomorrow?
Which is not something that, uh, was so normal for him.
♪ This crazy society... ♪
Home sweet home.
♪ The strand Take a straw to the nearest waters and... ♪
There's times when I've been angry, but I can't be that angry
because I genuinely feel that I, and we, are exactly where we're supposed to be.
♪ Long before you came So which way is the wind blowing... ♪
[Harry] We've made it to the other side.
♪ When this day is done... ♪
[Meghan] It's amazing how things come full circle that you never think about.
I gave a speech the night of our wedding,
which is atypical for a bride in the UK, I think?
Very.
I have it on my phone. I can read it to you. Should I read it?
From your phone?
- Am I gonna be able to read that? - [Harry] Try.
[Meghan] "On to the crux of why I wanted to speak tonight."
"First of all, it's been a while."
That got a big laugh.
"But mostly I wanted to share a story."
"A story that I wrote about the man that I love and the way that we met."
"Let's call this a modern fairy tale.
"Once upon a time, there was a girl from LA."
"Some people called her an actress."
[soft music playing]
"And there was a guy from London."
"Some people called him a prince."
"All of those people didn't fully get it,
because this is the love story of a boy and a girl who were meant to be together."
"They meet on July 3rd, 2016 in London. And they giggle endlessly."
"They have their second date
and he brings her cupcakes because it's 4th July."
"'A bittersweet celebration', he says. Ironic really."
"Her country's independence from his country."
"Yet in this moment, they know they don't want to be independent of each other."
"And after a month of long-distance courtship,
they settle into the quiet of Botswana."
"And amidst whatever momentary worries that creep in,
they look at each other and think, 'Whatever, world, we're in.'"
"They would love, and garden, and travel, and laugh,
and rack up more air miles than any couple could have."
"And when the tides were rough, they squeezed each other tighter."
"'Nothing can break us, ' they'd say. 'For this love, she was a fighter.'"
"I appreciate, respect and honor you, my treasure,
for the family we will create,
and our love story that will last forever."
[Harry] She's happy to go up the hill but she hates going down the hill.
[chuckles] We don't have that much farther to go.
What?
[Meghan laughing]
"So I ask you to raise a glass to the astounding assurance
that now life begins,
and the everlasting knowing that, above all, love wins."
["How Glad I Am" by Nancy Wilson playing]
♪ My love has no beginning My love has no end ♪
♪ No front, no back And my love won't bend ♪
♪ I'm in the middle ♪
♪ Lost in a spin ♪
♪ Loving you ♪
♪ And you don't know, you don't know You don't know, you don't know ♪
♪ How glad I am ♪
♪ My love has no bottom My love has no top ♪
♪ My love won't rise And my love won't drop ♪
♪ I'm in the middle ♪
♪ And I can't stop ♪
♪ Loving you ♪
♪ And you don't know, you don't know You don't know, you don't know ♪
♪ How glad I am ♪
♪ I wish I were a poet ♪
♪ So I could express ♪
♪ What I'd, what I'd like to say ♪
♪ I wish I were an artist ♪
♪ So I could paint a picture ♪
♪ Of how I feel ♪
Of how I feel today ♪
♪ My love has no walls on either side ♪
♪ That makes my love wider than wide ♪
♪ I'm in the middle and I can't hide ♪
♪ Loving you ♪
♪ And you don't know, you don't know You don't know, you don't know ♪
♪ How glad I am ♪
♪ And you don't know, you don't know You don't know, you don't know ♪
♪ How glad I am ♪