Harry and Meghan – live: Duke blames miscarriage on Daily Mail in Netflix documentary

Prince Harry said he believes his wife suffered a miscarriage because of the Daily Mail’s reporting on Meghan’s relationship with her father.

Meghan sued the current publisher of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), and won in 2021 after The Mail On Sunday published parts of the “personal and private” letter to Thomas Markle.

The Duchess of Sussex said the Queen told her to write a letter to her estranged father which was then leaked to the press.

Prince Harry said: “I watched the whole thing. Now do we absolutely know the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course we don’t, but bearing in mind the stress, 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.”

In the fifth episode of the Harry & Meghan Netflix series, the duchess said she went to senior members of the royal family for advice after her father began to criticise them in the media.

Key Points

• Palace ‘lied to protect William,’ Duke of Sussex claims

• ‘Palace briefed negative stories about Harry and Meghan to help other royals’

• Royal family braced for second part of Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary

• Duke blames miscarriage on Mail in Netflix documentary

Prince Harry said brother ‘screamed and shouted’ at him at Sandringham

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Prince Harry said his brother William “screamed and shouted” at him when they met at Sandringham to discuss his future in the family amid his and Meghan’s media struggles.

“The saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother so that he’s now on the institution’s side,” Prince Harry said.

He added: “It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in.”

Harry said they “had to believe that it was more about us and maybe the issues they had as opposed to their partner, the media, and themselves in that relationship that was causing so much pain for us.

“They saw what they wanted to see.”

“The saddest part of it was this wedge created between me and my brother so that he's now on the institution side.

“Part of that I get, I understand. That's his inheritance so part of that is already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and continuation of this institution.”

Meghan was surprised public believed tabloid headlines about her

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken in the fourth episode of their Netflix documentary about the effect the media had on Meghan.

Meghan said: “It is still under the delusion that if it's in a tabloid no-one believed it, like it's a tabloid. We had a walkabout in Liverpool and there was a group of women and one of them said to me ‘What you're doing to your father is not right’.

“It was the first time that I went 'Oh my god, people actually believe this stuff.' And then my entire centre was rocked to its core.”

Harry said: “The lies, that's one thing. You kind of get used to that when you live within this family. But what they were doing to her and the effect it was having on her. Enough of the pain, enough of the suffering. No-one sees what is happening behind closed doors.

“Back in the day, my mum was in the back of the car going to engagements in floods of tears. And then my dad is saying 'We are almost there' and 30 seconds to wipe the tears away, slap on some make-up, and then the door opens and smile and everything is fine.”

Mimicking cameras, he adds: “And flash, flash, flash, flash, flash.”

‘It broke my heart’: Meghan Markle’s mother recalls hearing her daughter was suicidal

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In their interview with Oprah last year, Harry and Meghan revealed the Duchess of Sussex had contemplated suicide.

Her mother Doria Ragland has spoken out about the subject for the first time

Through tears she said: “I remember her telling me that, that she’d wanted to take her own life. And that broke my heart, because I knew that it was bad, but to constantly be picked at by these vultures, just picking away at her spirit, that she would actually think of not wanting to be here... that’s not an easy one for a mum to hear, you know? And I can’t protect her. H can’t protect her.”

Prince Harry added that they were both struggling through Meghan’s mental health struggles.

“I felt angry and ashamed. I didn't deal with it particularly well. I dealt with it as institutional Harry. And what took over my feelings was my royal role. I had been trained to worry more about what people are going tothink if we don't go to this event, we're gonna be late. And looking back now, I hate myself for it. What she needed from me was so much more than what I was able to give,” Prince Harry said.

Meghan added: “I wanted to go somewhere to get help, but I wasn't allowed. They were concerned about how that would look for the institution.”

“They knew how bad it was, they thought, Why couldn't she just deal with it? Everybody else is dealing with it, why can't she deal with it? But this was different. But even if you strip all that away and say, OK fine, it is exactly the same. So should she have just sucked it up like the other members of the family? Or does one think that maybe it's about time that we stop,” Prince Harry said.

Meghan says private secretary described her as a 'foreign organism'

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In episode four, there is discussion of how Meghan struggled to fit in with the Royal Family.

“There was this moment where our private secretary, she worked for the Queen for almost 20 years and what she said to me was it’s like this fish that's swimming perfectly with the right current then this little organism comes in,” Meghan explains.

“This foreign organism and the entire thing goes mmm – what is that? What is it doing here, doesn't look like us, doesn't move like us, we don't like it, get it off of us.”

The duchess continues that the unnamed private secretary had tried to reassure her by saying: “You know they'll soon see that it's stronger, faster even better with this organism as part of it.

“It will be hard at the beginning for them to adjust to this new thing but then it will be amazing.”

Prince Harry blames miscarriage on Daily Mail reporting of Thomas Markle letter

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Prince Harry said he believes his wife suffered a miscarriage because of the Daily Mail’s reporting on Meghan’s relationship with her father.

“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did.

“I watched the whole thing. Now do we absolutely know the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course we don’t, but bearing in mind the stress, 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.”

Gospel choir at wedding ‘represented Meghans culture,’ Serena Williams said

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Friends of the couple tell viewers that the wedding "felt like a moment where the world paused and celebrated love".

Gospel singers of The Kingdom Choir performed at the wedding which Serena Williams, friend of Meghan, said represented the Duchess’ culture:

“To have Meghan's culture represented in that wedding, amazing, I loved it, I thought it was really courageous and breaking boundaries,” Ms Williams said.

Oprah was surprised by ‘small’ size of Nottingham Cottage

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Harry and Meghan commented on the size of Nottingham Cottage, where they lived on the grounds of Kensington Palace after they were married.

Prince Harry said: “As far as people were concerned we were living in a palace, and we were, in a cottage.

Meghan added: “We were living on palace grounds.... Kensington Palace sounds very regal, of course it does, it says ‘palace’ in the name. But Nottingham Cottage was so small.”

The couple said that Oprah visited the cottage and was surprised by the size of the home saying: “No one would ever believe it.”

“The whole thing's on a slight lean, really low ceilings so I don't know who lived there before but they must have been very short,” Prince Harry said.

Meghan added: “He would just hit his head constantly in that place constantly, because he's so tall... it was just a chapter in our lives where I don't think anyone could believe what our life was like behind the scenes.”

Letter to father going public was ‘horrendous,’ Meghan said

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Prince Harry said it was clear that the Palace was not going to protect Meghan over stories related to her father.

Meghan said it was “horrendous” when letters to her father were leaked to the media.

“I realised I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves, I was being fed to the wolves,” Meghan said.

On Mr Markle getting endless headlines, Meghan said: “It was embarrassing for the family... I’d reached out to Her Majesty, like, ‘This is going on, what do you want me to do... What advice you have?’.

“But ultimately, it was suggested by the Queen, that I write my dad a letter. And I had gone to great lengths to get that letter to my dad discreetly because I can’t put this letter in the mail with the return address being Kensington Palace and send it to Tom Markle and assume it’s gonna get there.”

On the letter leaking, Prince Harry said: “They knew the family would encourage us not to sue.”

Meghan Markle went into ‘really calm space' on the day of her wedding to Prince Harry

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Meghan Markle says she went into a "really calm space" on the day of her wedding to Prince Harry

The Duchess of Sussex said: “On the day of our wedding, it's like I went into a really calm space. I don't know how I was so calm - I look back and it's like, 'How was I so calm?!' And all I wanted was a mimosa, a croissant and to play ‘Going to the Chapel’. And that's what I did.”

NEW: Volume II has now dropped

08:03 , Thomas Kingsley

The final three episodes in the Harry & Meghan documentary have now dropped on Netflix.

Follow our blog for all the key highlights from the series.

Watch: The final set of trailers before Harry and Meghan’s documentary airs

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What were the key points from Volume I of Harry and Meghan’s documentary?

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Details about the royal family and alleged racism and harassment from the British press were revealed in the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s six-part docuseries on Netflix.

In the first three episodes, which dropped at 8am on Thursday, Meghan told of finding the formality of royal life “surprising”, while Harry said his family’s view of his wife were “clouded” by her being an American actress.

Below are the key points from the first instalment of the tell-all documentary:

• Harry said he first spotted Meghan on a friend’s Instagram

• Harry said there is a temptation in the royal family to marry someone who “fits the mould”

• The Duke praised his mother, Diana, for her efforts to “protect” him and his brother from the media

• The Duke said members of the royal family asked why Meghan should be “protected” or given “special treatment” when they questioned newspaper headlines about her

• The Duke said articles in the press had “racist undertones” as well as “outright racism”

• The King’s second son said the early stages of dating were “car chases, anti-surveillance driving and disguises”

• The Duchess of Sussex said the media would find a way to “destroy” her “no matter how good” she was

Read here for more of the key points from the first three episodes

Who is Meghan Markle’s British friend Lucy Fraser?

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Meghan Markle’s British friend, Lucy Fraser, features prominently in Harry and Meghan, the Sussexes’ tell-all Netflix series.

In part one of the docuseries, Fraser speaks about Meghan’s plans for a “single girl summer” after she wrapped another series of filming USA Network’s Suits in 2016.

In episode two, Lucy recalls warning Meghan when her romance with Harry was revealed: “I remember saying to her, ‘When this goes public, it is not going to be easy. The UK media are notorious for doing whatever they can to get a story.’”

“And that they go through rubbish bins, they’ll try and break into accounts. They will do whatever they can to get an exclusive and make money,” she continued. “I remember she was quite shocked. And she was like, ‘Really? They would do that?’”

It is unknown how Fraser and Meghan met and when they became friends. But Fraser makes it known in the docuseries that she and Meghan were close friends in 2016, when Meghan and Prince Harry went on their first date at Soho House Dean Street, and remain to be close friends.

Read the full story below:

Who is Meghan Markle’s British friend Lucy Fraser?

What to expect from today’s episodes?

07:31 , Thomas Kingsley

The royal family and Palace aides will be steeling themselves for bombshells in Volume II of the Harry & Meghan series after the royal household faced accusations it leaked negative stories as part of a "war against Meghan".

Meghan's lawyer Jenny Afia, in a trailer released on Wednesday, alleged she had seen evidence of briefing from the Palace against the couple to suit other people's agenda.

The duchess herself was seen saying: “You would just see it play out, like a story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute and they'd go ‘We've got to make that go away’.”

Her friend Lucy Fraser added: “Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace. And so they would feed stories on her whether they were true or not to avoid other less favourable stories being printed.”

Ms Afia said: “There was a real kind of war against Meghan and I've certainly seen evidence that there was negative briefing from the Palace against Harry and Meghan to suit other people's agendas.”

Harry, in another trailer, said “They were happy to lie to protect my brother (William). They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us”, while Meghan said she was “fed to the wolves”.

The last three episodes look set to explore the Megxit crisis, when Harry and Meghan stepped down from royal life to move to the US, with the duke heard saying: “There was no other option at this point...I said 'we need to get outta here’”

In the first instalment on 8 December, Harry accused the royals of having a “huge level of unconscious bias” and Meghan said the media wanted to “destroy” her.

The duke also said members of his family questioned why Meghan needed more protection from the media than their wives had been given, but that they failed to grasp the “race element”.

Good morning

07:26 , Thomas Kingsley

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Volume II of the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary. Trailers leading up to the final instalment of the bombshell series have seen Prince Harry accuse the Palace of lying to protect his brother while friends of Meghan Markle claim royal aides leaked negative stories about the Duchess to the media.

Follow our blog for the latest updates from the series, reaction and more.