We've been diligently watching the first three episodes of the documentary to bring you details - if you're just joining us here's a quick summary of some of the things we've learned:

Press intrusion

This is the key theme and strand to the Netflix series so far, with both Meghan and Harry emotionally talking about the effect that media attention has had on their lives - both as individuals and as a couple.

Harry says he sees it as his duty to uncover "exploitation and bribery" within the press, claiming other members of the Royal Family questioned why Meghan should be "protected" from newspaper headlines.

Meghan herself has talked about the paparazzi following her from the first moment their relationship became public, feeling scared by being followed and describing the tactics they employed to evade them.

Royal relationships and race

Meghan has talked about the difficulties of joining the Royal Family, citing a first meeting with William and Kate, as well as feeling awkward about the formality of meeting the Queen for the first time.

Harry has spoken about the rigidity of being a senior Royal, as well as addressing what he calls the "unconscious bias" within the family around issues of race.

A statement at the beginning of the show said members of the Royal Family had declined to comment, although so far no explosive, or major new claims, have been aired.

Family life

The documentary has revealed rare footage of the couple's son, Archie, playing happily and talking to his parents.

Both of them have also been interview extensively about their contrasting and challenging upbringings, with Harry focusing heavily on the treatment of his mother Princess Diana and how being a public figure from birth affected has him.

Meghan has discussed the challenges of growing up mixed race and with separated parents, as well as losing her relationship with her father over his involvement with the media.

Earlier we reported that the opening episode featured audio of Harry and Meghan's son, Archie, one of the rare times we've heard him speak in public.

The toddler, now three, is seen running around the family's California home as he admires a sunset.

Harry says he "shouldered" the breakdown of Meghan's relationship with her father, Thomas Markle.

"Of course it is incredibly sad what happened.

"She had a father before this and now she doesn't have a father.

"And I shouldered that because if Meg wasn't with me, then her dad would still be her dad," Harry says.

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During episode three, Meghan discusses the breakdown in the relationship with her father, Thomas Markle.

She says in the days before her wedding, she had to ring him to ask if he was taking money from tabloids to stage photos of him preparing for the ceremony.

Meghan then reveals her shock at discovering he wouldn't be walking her down the aisle via a tabloid.

"I never spoke to him," she says.

In a 2018 ITV interview, Thomas Markle was asked about the reports that he had staged paparazzi photos in the lead-up to Meghan and Harry's wedding.

He said: "For that incident I've apologised 100 times", adding: "I don't feel that's worthy of being shunned or ghosted, that's ridiculous."

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

OK. Quick screen break taken, coffee refilled, I'm going in for episode two.

It opens in New York, November 2021. We're in a taxi, with a camera filming the back seats. Harry and Meghan enter the cab wearing Covid facemasks. The driver, their usual, sets off.

A photographer is apparently following them. "Do we have that pap on the scooter again?" asks Meghan. The driver claims they do. "We do? Same guy?"

Back in the interview room, Harry picks up. "There's a lot of people who think [we've] got such a problem with paparazzi.

"Back in my mum's day, it was physical harassment, cameras in your face, chasing you. Paparazzi still harass people, but the harassment really exists more online now."

Back to the footage from the cab, Harry and Meghan keep looking over their shoulders. No photographers can be seen by the viewer.

The opening credits roll. Episode two properly begins with the first appearance of Doria, Meghan's mother.

"I'm ready to have my voice heard, that's for sure," she says.

Ashitha Nagesh
BBC News Community Affairs Correspondent

The third episode starts with a crash course in the history of race in Britain, with historian David Olusoga and writer Afua Hirsch. They start with the brutality of Britain's empire and its slavery, through to the modern legacy of colonialism.

So far, Harry and Meghan haven’t made any specific allegations of racism against the family – but that they are setting their story against the backdrop of Britain’s colonial history, and centuries of brutal enslavement of black people, is significant.

"Who dreamed that Britain would have a black princess?" Olusoga asks - adding that it was "the conclusion to a history that was so improbable as to be astonishing".

This history was intertwined with the British monarchy - commercial slave voyages, Hirsch explains, were directly financed by kings and queens until slavery was abolished in 1833.

But our collective memory of slavery and the brutality of the empire is "airbrushed out of Britain's story", Olusoga says.

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Harry discusses the "huge level of unconscious bias" in the Royal Family in episode three.

The Netflix documentary then references when Princess Michael of Kent wore a Blackamoor-style brooch to the Queen's annual Christmas banquet at Buckingham Palace 2017 - an event where Meghan was in attendance.

"In this family, sometimes you are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. There is a huge level of unconscious bias.

"The thing with unconscious bias, it is actually no one's fault. But once it has been pointed out, or identified within yourself you then need to make it right.

"It is education. It is awareness. It is a constant work in progress for everybody, including me."

Harry then recalls when he wore a Nazi uniform to a private party in 2005.

Ashitha Nagesh
Community Affairs Correspondent

Back in 2005, photos were leaked of Harry at a friend's fancy dress party. He was wearing a swastika armband. The images were published by the Sun, under the headline: "Harry the Nazi." Clarence House issued a swift statement saying that the prince apologised for any embarassment or offence caused, but Harry was criticised for not issuing a personal apology himself.

Now in this series, Harry says that in the aftermath he sat down with the chief rabbi in London and a Holocaust survivor in Berlin to try and learn from the incident.

"In this family, sometimes you're part of the problem rather than part of the solution - and there is a huge level of unconscious bias," Harry says. "The thing with unconscious bias is it's actually no one's fault, but once it's been pointed out or identified within yourself, you need to make it right."

He adds: "I could've just ignored it and probably made the same mistakes over and over again in my life. But I learned from that."

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

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We've been bringing you revelations from all three episodes this morning, but so far I've been live-blogging only the first as I'm watching the series in order.

The closing minutes of episode one feature more about Harry and Meghan falling in love as they met up in Botswana. "We jumped in a land cruiser and off we went," Harry remembers.

"To start with we were sitting next to each other. Then we progressed to holding hands, then we squeezed in a kiss."

Thank goodness we all now know that.

As episode one reaches its climax, the conversation turns to the run-up of the couple's relationship being made public.

The pair are clearly proud of the fact that they were able to hide their early dates from the media. "We had been dating secretly since July," Harry reiterates, to make things extra clear.

"We were so petrified of when it would break," continues Meghan, "and H trying to prepare for what that might be like, what he'd experienced in the past."

Recalling the moment they knew the media were on to their relationship, Meghan says: "[Harry] and his brother's communications secretary, Jason [Knauf], called him to let him know that the story was scooped by a tabloid.

"I said, 'well if it's going to come out tomorrow, let's go and have fun tonight.'" The couple recall going to a Halloween party together that evening. "It was so great, it was so fun, and then..." says Meghan, before clicking her fingers.

She's indicating that the media circus was about to begin, putting on an expression of thinly-veiled disappointment. The credits roll.

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Talking about the first time his wife the Queen in episode two, Harry says Meghan "had no idea" about the layers of formality and ritual that comes with meeting a senior Royal - even when that person is a close relative.

"It was a bit of a shock to the system for her", he says.

Meghan says she had no idea she was about to meet the late monarch, which Harry mentioned in passing and asked her "you know how to curtsey right?"

"And I just thought it was a joke." she adds.

Cutting back to the interview with Harry he says: "How do you explain someone that you bow to your grandmother, and that you will need to curtsey. Especially to an American, like that's weird."

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We see an informal shot of Meghan in a kitchen, smiling as she cooks in a baseball cap.

She's remembering her first meeting with William and Catherine, now the Prince and Princess of Wales, and says: "When Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner.

She smiles as she recalls that she was "in ripped jeans and barefoot", but implies she was perhaps less formal than they were.

"I was a hugger, always been a hugger, I didn't realise that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.

"I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside - that there is a forward-facing way of being."

This is juxtaposed with footage of the royal family in formal meet-and-greet situations.

She adds: "And then you close the door, and go great, okay, we can relax now - but that formality carries over on both sides - and that was surprising to me."

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

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On his decision to step down from royal duties in 2020, Harry admits: "I accept there will be people around the world who fundamentally disagree with what I've done and how I've done it.

"But I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family," he adds (this was one of the key lines used in the trailer for the series).

The mood takes a sombre turn as the episode moves on to Princess Diana's death in 1997.

Emotive piano music plays as archive footage rolls of a young Harry and William laying flowers for their mother.

In the aftermath, Harry notes: "The UK swept me and William up as their children. The expectation to see me and William out and about was really hard for the two of us."

Bear in mind that Prince William, like the rest of the Royal Family, has not been involved with this series or signed off on its content.

More from episode two, where Meghan speaks about the experience of the early days of her relationship with Harry in 2016.

She says she approached the police in Toronto, Canada (where she was living at the time working as an actress on the US TV drama Suits) about the press following her everywhere.

Meghan says: "So I would say to the police: if any other woman in Toronto right now said to you 'I have six grown men sleeping in their cars around my house, following me everywhere I go, and I feel scared' wouldn't you say that was stalking?'"

"And they said 'there's really nothing we can do because of who you're dating'."

She then says she asked police "so I'm so just supposed to live like this?" - to which she was told yes.

"And then I got a death threat so things changed because I had to have security," Meghan concludes.

Sean Coughlan
BBC News, royal correspondent

This was truly a relationship of the social media age.

That's one insight from Harry and Meghan's account of getting together. They met over Instagram and kept in touch with Facetime and texts. She checked out his Insta feed to see what he was like.

When they met, her first impression of "Prince Haz" was that he was "so refreshingly fun".

Prince Harry clearly sees a connection between Meghan and his mother, Princess Diana.

"So much of what Meghan is, and how she is, is so similar to my mum," he says.

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Halfway through episode one, Harry draws more comparisons between Meghan and Princess Diana and says he "didn't want history to repeat itself".

"So much of what Meghan is, and how she is, is so similar to my mom," he says, while clips show him and his mother, followed by pictures his wife and son.

"She has the same compassion, the same empathy, she has the same confidence. She has this warmth about her," he says.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

Meghan has been absent for a chunk of episode one as Harry reflects on his time as a young royal.

Footage of Harry's ex-girlfriends being chased by photographers is shown.

"Every relationship that I had, within a matter of weeks or months, was splattered all over the newspapers, and that person's family harassed, and their lives turned upside down," he says.

"After one or two girlfriends, by the third or fourth girlfriend, I was like 'hang on a second, I don't know if I want this'.

"So when I got to meet M, I was terrified of her being driven away by the media."

(We're really not sure about this whole initials-as-nicknames thing, but whatever.)

He concludes: "I knew the only way this [the relationship with Meghan] could work was by keeping it quiet for as long as possible."

And with that, Meghan is back on screen. "We talked for hours," she recalls of their early days. "It just felt exciting... we just got to know each other."

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Meghan's mother Doria Ragland is interviewed in episode three, and we see paparazzi shots of her outside with her dog, and out in gym gear carrying a yoga mat.

"I felt unsafe, a lot. I can’t just go walk my dogs," she says.

"There was always someone waiting for me, following me to work. I was being stalked by the paparazzi.

"Once I pulled over and he pulled next to me, and said, 'You know, I've been trying to get a story, you can get a lot of money for this.'"

Shaking her head, she adds: "I said, 'This is my child, I have nothing to say'."

Meghan is recalling going to a concert with her mother Doria, about 16 minutes into episode two.

Driving past the Hollywood Bowl, she says: "This is where I had my high school graduation."

We see a photograph of her on stage, with her classmates, all in long white dresses carrying red roses.

She says: “It's also the last concert I went to there. I went to with my mom, and we were in the parking lot leaving, and my mom like honked her horn as this woman was taking a long time to figure out how to get out.

"The woman turned around and screamed the N-word at my mom."

Meghan blinks and pauses.

"I remember the grip that her hands had on the steering wheel, and like you could see it was so tight, the knuckles got all white and she was just silent the rest of the journey home.

"We'd never talked about it."

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter

Harry talks about agreements the Royal Family had with the press - such as when they would pose for some photos on holiday in exchange for being left alone at other times for privacy.

He says the press would often break this rule and try to take pictures even in private moments.

The discussion moves on to Princess Diana's interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC's Panorama programme. It has since been found that the interview was obtained through deceitful methods.

Harry refers to this, but also appears to suggest it was an opportunity for his late mother to give her side of the story.

"That Panorama interview, I think we now all know she was deceived into giving the interview, but at the same time, she spoke the truth of her experience," he says.

Harry goes on to discuss his parents' separation.

The Duke of Sussex says in the third episode that he believes the media see his "trauma" as their story to "control".

Harry then speaks about the royal rota, the system where different press and broadcasters are allocated slots to cover the members of the family - describing it as an extension of the palace's PR.

He says: "If you're part of the royal rota, you have priority over the story over everybody else.

"All royal news goes through the filter of all newspapers within the royal rota, most of which, apart from the Telegraph, happen to be tabloids.

"It all comes down to control, it's like, 'This family is ours to exploit. Their trauma is our story and our story and our narrative to control'."