A second - and final - batch of three episodes of Netflix docuseries Harry and Meghan have been released
In episode five, Prince Harry describes a tense 2020 summit at Sandringham where senior royals met to discuss his and Meghan's royal roles
"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me," says Harry
Remarking on his relationship with his family, he says: "It looked cold, but it also felt cold"
The Prince and Princess of Wales and Buckingham Palace have not responded to any claims made in the series
Elsewhere, Meghan says she tried to make the family "proud"
But she claims that ultimately she was "fed to the wolves" of the tabloid media
Her mother, Doria Ragland, says Meghan at one point wanted to take her own life to escape the "vultures"
Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace - which represents the Prince and Princess of Wales - have again declined to comment on the Netflix series Harry and Meghan.
WATCH: Meghan reads out Queen's statement as Harry receives a text from William
Episode six shows a moment when Meghan reads out a statement from Buckingham Palace, following the couple's interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The Palace statement - on behalf of the Queen - contains the phrase "recollections may vary".
In the clip Harry shows Meghan a message on his phone from his brother, Prince William.
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixThe couple share pictures they sent each other during their courtship
Skipping to the end of episode six, Meghan reads out her speech from the night of their wedding - which she mentions is not traditional for the bride in a British wedding - describing the "modern fairytale" of her and Harry's story.
In the speech, she says it isn't just the story of "a girl from LA, some people called her an actress" and "a guy from London, some people called him a prince" but "the love story of a boy and a girl who were meant to be together".
The speech recalls their first date on 3 July 2016 where they "giggle endlessly" and their second date the next day, when Harry brings her cupcakes to celebrate 4 July, even if US Independence Day is "ironic" and "bittersweet" for him.
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixTheir third date was a trip to Botswana, which marked a turning point in their relationship
She describes a month of long-distance courtship before they travel to Botswana together and decide "they would love and garden and travel and laugh and rack up more air miles than any couple could have" - this was before the couple would be accused of hypocrisy for using private jets, despite their support for environmental issues.
The speech ends in a rhyme - we'll spare you the full verse - which says it is a "love story that will last forever" and celebrates "the everlasting knowing that, above all, love wins". The end.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesWe're heading towards Harry and Meghan's decision to step down from royal duties as we continue with episode five in our live blog
"What if we move to Canada?" Meghan remembers asking.
"We thought it would be good to give ourselves some breathing space," adds Harry.
The pair say they felt moving abroad would reduce media scrutiny of them. Harry says the decision was "years in the making... we wanted to remove the supposed public interest argument that the press had over every element of our lives".
The couple say they had considered moving to New Zealand, and then South Africa, supporting charities and organisations there.
But their plans were leaked to the media. "The whole [South Africa] plan was then scrapped, because it had now become a public debate," Harry says.
Discussions continued with Prince Charles, as he was then, about the role the couple might play in the future. Their intention remained to get away from the media throng in the UK, and they came up with a new plan of moving to Canada.
"In one of those emails [to my father], I mentioned that... we'd be willing to relinquish our Sussex titles if need be," says Harry.
This is key - the fact that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have retained those titles since stepping down in 2020 remains hugely controversial.
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixEpisode six also allows us to glimpse some family moments, including Meghan's mother Doria Ragland playing with her grandchildren.
We also see Archie, now aged three, playing with Harry on a water slide.
We are also shown the family at an outdoor celebration.
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Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixArchie is also seen playing with a keyboard and doing some baking.
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Sean Coughlan
BBC News, royal correspondent
If there were bombshells in this part of the series, it’s not what might have been expected.
It was much more about the emotional impact on individuals, rather than any explosive insights into the monarchy.
We heard how the negative media pressure weighed so heavily on Meghan that she had thought about taking her own life.
It was an anatomy of broken relationships, with Prince Harry making clear the wedge that had come between him and his brother, Prince William.
There was distrust and claims about briefings, leaking, claims of shouting and rival camps. Not a great look, but nothing that in the long run will rock the institution.
But what came across strongly was the couple’s desperate need for a fresh start and the emotional gap between what they felt was happening to them and the lack of support they felt they’d been given.
Prince Harry was a more empathetic figure than in previous episodes, filled with a sense of loss about his mother and terrified the same destructive cycle would consume his wife.
“I’d changed to the point where I’d outgrown my environment,” says Prince Harry, and observes that he was now living where his mother might have moved.
There was a strong sense that he was finishing her journey or trying to protect Meghan in a way that he was unable to protect his mother.
All of this was seen through their eyes, it’s their version of events, without any challenging voices.
But in the California sunshine, with a rom-com soundtrack, they seemed to stake a claim to a happy ending.
Also in the fifth episode, Harry says it was his decision to step back as a working royal, not his wife's.
“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 says, blasting characterisations in the media Meghan forced him to leave.
He explains: “I’ve seen little cartoons of me on all fours and her holding a dog lead, and me wearing the dog collar.
"How predictable that you know the woman is to be blamed for the decision of a couple."
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesAs episode five continues, Meghan refers to the decision the couple took to sue the Mail on Sunday after the newspaper published elements of her letter to her father.
"Everything changed after that," she says. That litigation was the catalyst, probably, for all of the unravelling," she says.
She's referring to the couple's later decision to step back from royal duties altogether.
We haven't reached that stage in the docuseries timeline yet, though. For now, Meghan and Harry are taking a holiday with Archie in Vancouver. There are some nice pictures of sunsets.
"The main thing we needed was some space to think, and just work out what on earth we're doing," says Harry.
Image source, PAThe then Cambridges and Sussexes at the Commonwealth Day service in 2020
In episode five, Harry describes his relationship with his family at his final engagement as a working royal as "cold".
Meghan says the first they saw the rest of the royal family during their farewell tour was at their final engagement - a Commonwealth Day service at London's Westminster Abbey in 2020.
Harry says: “I felt very distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting, because so much of how they operate is about what it looks like rather than what it feels like.
"And it looked cold, but it also felt cold.”
He adds he was nervous about seeing his family because of the TV camera and everybody watching in the audience.
"It's like living through a soap opera, where everybody else uses you as entertainment," he adds.
This time last week, more than 2.4 million UK viewers watched Harry and Meghan's new Netflix series on TV sets alone.
But how are the couple currently perceived by the public? Our graphic below - which reflects the results of two surveys - gives some insight.
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Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixEpisode four offers us several shots from Harry and Meghan's family album.
She reveals that her mother, Doria Ragland, stayed with them "for a month solid" as pictures of newborn baby Archie are shown.
"It was great to have her there," Meghan adds.
"But after that we weren't in a position to have someone help us with Archie.
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixTheir former nanny Lorren Khumelo then talks about how informal the couple were.
She recalls how she'd bought new shoes for their first encounter, but was met by a barefoot Harry - we see footage of him standing on a tree swing.
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixArchie with his grandmother Doria Ragland and parents
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixWe also hear about how the couple are "hands-on parents", and see their nanny with Archie in a baby sling tied to her back, to Harry and Meghan's evident delight.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesEpisode five is under way in our live blog, and Meghan's eyes are aglow as she discusses - over some more piano music - how happy she was to think of the family life she was planning with Harry and Archie.
We can guess where this is going.
"And then the bubble burst," she says.
The music turns dramatic and changes to a minor key, as Harry says: "It was already clear to the media that the Palace wasn't going to protect her. Once that happens, the floodgates open."
Meghan adds: "I wasn't even being thrown to the wolves, I was being fed to the wolves."
After the opening credits are out of the way, Meghan starts discussing how "embarrassing" it was when her father, Thomas Markle, started speaking to the media.
Clips of Susanna Reid interviewing Meghan's father on ITV's Good Morning Britain are played. "It was incredibly painful, and the world is watching this drama play out," Meghan recalls.
A letter that Meghan sent to her father was later leaked to the media.
Driving along the California coast towards the end of episode six, Harry is asked if there's anything he misses about the institution of the Royal Family.
"I miss the weird family gatherings where we’re all brought together under one roof at certain times of the year," he says.
"I miss the UK, I miss my friends. I've lost a few friends in the process as well."
But he says he he had "outgrown my environment" and says California was "the most obvious place to come". "It's one of the places I think my mum was probably going to end up living, potentially."
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Harry & Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixMany of us are now used to working from home and in episode six, we see Harry and Meghan sitting side by side, working on their laptops.
Tim Burt, the strategic advisor to the couple's organisation Archewell, talks about their non-royal patronages and causes.
He says they wanted to continue their work around mental health, the environment, gender equity and vaccine equity.
Image source, Harry & Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixWe also see Harry speaking on an outdoor stage at the Global Citizen Live event.
"My wife and I believe that where you are born should not dictate your ability to survive," he says to the crowds, hugging Meghan as he speaks.
Meghan later says: "If we're going to have this glaring microscope on us, at all times - people are looking at us - then look at what we're looking at."
Image source, Harry and Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixIt's been a morning of royal drama, with our team getting stuck in to the second - and final - batch of episodes from the new Netflix series Harry and Meghan.
Here are some of the key moments from the programme:
A reminder that the Royal Family has not yet commented on the series.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesMeghan is recalling an interview with ITV's Tom Bradby in South Africa, where she acknowledged the pressure she was feeling.
At the time, she was a working royal, had recently given birth to her son Archie, and was still in the media spotlight.
"It's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes," she said, confirming to Bradby that it had been a struggle.
Back in the present day, Meghan says: "I guess because I was so exhausted, I was really grateful that someone seemed to ask me like I was a human being."
But then she says: "I guess I thought they'd never even use it [the footage]."
Several years into royal life, this is naive. Her comments were picked up around the world and there was significant fallout.
"Every single front page in the UK was very different to what the general public's reaction was," Harry claims. "When you'd expect support, we got the opposite."
As the episode draws to a close, Meghan says: "There's only so much you can take on your own. So you end up saying, 'something has to change'."
We are clearly heading towards the couple's decision to step back from royal duties, which will be explored in episode five.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesMeghan says her long-standing relationship with her doctor, whom she trusted, was one of the reasons she wanted to give birth at a different hospital to the one that many previous royal babies had been born at.
She also said she was "worried going into that labour, because I'm older, and I didn't know whether I'd have to have a C-section".
The couple's decision to choose a different hospital - which meant the traditional photocall could not take place due to security concerns - was controversial.
"The amount of abuse we got for not wanting to serve our child up on a silver platter was incredible," suggests Harry.
Instead, Meghan and Harry were instead seen with their newborn son Archie two days later, at Windsor Castle, where they posed for photographs and spoke to the media.
Steven McIntosh
Entertainment Reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesI'm continuing to live blog each of the new episodes in turn, and am currently on number four.
In the aftermath of the increasingly negative press coverage, Meghan says she remembers thinking "all of this would stop if I'm not here".
Her mother, Doria Ragland, adds: "I remember her telling me that, that she had wanted to take her own life. And that really broke my heart, because I knew that it was bad.
"That's not an easy one for a mum to hear," she adds, becoming visibly emotional. "And I can't protect her. H [Harry] can't protect her."
"The fact that it got to that stage, I felt angry and ashamed," Harry picks up, admitting: "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'd been trained to worry more about 'what people are going to think if we don't go to this event?' And looking back on it now, I hate myself for it."
Harry says some members of the royal family might have felt Meghan should "suck it up" - meaning accept that media scrutiny is part of royal life. But Harry disagrees.
He claims no-one in the family was willing have conversations with the media to try and persuade journalists to change their tone.
"My dad said to me 'Darling boy you can't take on the media'. I said 'I fundamentally disagree'."
Image source, Harry & Meghan/Archewell Productions/Diamond Docs/Story Syndicate/NetflixMeghan talks in episode six about wanting her children to be able to "travel... fall in love... be happy".
We then see Harry, barefoot, weaving a small ball in their garden around some carefully positioned slippers. Archie is running alongside him, chortling loudly.
Archie goes for the ball and cheers as he runs around - we hear Meghan, who is filming, also laughing.
Soft guitar accompanied by a mouth organ plays in the background, a contrast to some of the more sombre music from the first three episodes.
Speaking on security in episode five, Harry says he was convinced his security would not be removed after receiving suspicious packages.
The Sussexes lost full protection when they stepped back from royal duties in 2020.
The Canadian government also announced it would stop providing security to the family, who were residing on Canada's west coast, "in keeping with their change in status".
Harry says he did not expect the decision after he and Meghan received suspicious packages specifically with their names on.
He concluded he need to "get the hell out of" Canada when the Covid pandemic hit.