What we learnt in part two of Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary

London: The final three episodes of the Harry & Meghan documentary, rumoured to be worth $US100 million ($148.7 million) for the couple, dropped on Thursday night.

Instalment two was far more dramatic than the first as the couple took aim at their targets, King Charles III and William, Prince of Wales – and didn’t miss.

Here’s what we learnt.

• William “shouted and screamed” in terrifying manner at Harry at Sandringham summit

Harry detailed his version of the Megxit drama when he and his wife decided to quit their jobs as working royals and left the UK for Canada. He claimed they left mainly to get away from royal reporters who were printing negative stories about them, which he believes were fed to them by rival royal households (more on that later).

Harry provided details of the Sandringham meeting with his father and brother and the Queen in January 2020 to discuss the terms and nature of Harry and Meghan’s future life.

Harry wanted a half-in-half-out approach, where he and Meghan would do some work on behalf of the Queen but be largely free of royal obligations.

Central to this at the time was the couple’s desire to earn a private income, which they have subsequently done through multi-milliondollar deals with Netflix and Spotify.

Harry said he was told this proposal was not an option and revealed that William’s reaction was “terrifying”.

“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and have my father say things that simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and take it all in,” he told Netflix.

“The saddest part of it was the wedge created between myself and my brother so that he is on the institution’s side.

“That’s his inheritance. So to some extent it is ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and continuity of this institution.”

The couple also claimed they were willing to relinquish their titles. They still hold them today, despite dumping on Harry’s father and brother in such spectacular fashion.

• Harry accuses rival royals of leaking against them after success in Australia

Meghan poses outside the Sydney Opera House during the royal tour. Credit: AP

A lot of this was canvassed in the original Oprah Winfrey interview, how Harry and Meghan delighted Australians to the alleged jealousy of rival royals, presumably his brother William and sister-in-law Catherine, now the Princess of Wales.

Harry said this tour was the turning point and when they returned home, the negative press about him and Meghan began.

He said he and William had made a pact to never let their household staff leak against each other, which he explained was a hallmark of how the royal family operates.

But he said Kensington Palace reneged on this deal when he and Meghan wanted to leave and details of their plans were leaked to the British press.

“William and I both saw what happened in our dad’s office and we made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office,” Harry said.

“I would far rather get destroyed in the press than play along with this game or this business of trading.

“To see my brother’s office engage in the very thing we said we’d never do ... that was heartbreaking,” he said.

He also said that Meghan was better at the job of being a royal than some born into it and that with a new republican push in the Caribbean, the royal family had missed out on Meghan’s PR potential.

• Harry accused the Mail of causing Meghan’s miscarriage

Harry explicitly linked the lawsuit brought by his wife against Associated Newspapers, publishers of the MailOnline and Mail on Sunday, to Meghan’s miscarriage.

Harry detailed his version of the Megxit drama when he and his wife decided to quit as working royals.Credit: Netflix

She went on to win that case, successfully arguing the paper had invaded her privacy by publishing a letter she wrote to her father, in which she begged him to stop speaking to the media about her and the royal family.

But Harry said it was the cause of the loss of their child.

“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did,” Harry said.

“I watched the whole thing. Now do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was caused by that? Of 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 that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her,” he said.

• Meghan can’t believe Beyonce knows who she is

Meghan with Beyonce and Jay-Z in London in 2019.Credit: PA

In one of the more cringeworthy moments of the show, Meghan was shown exclaiming that Beyonce has just texted her.

“Beyonce just texted, I still can’t believe she knows who I am,” an excited Meghan told Harry.

Harry also looked starstruck and asked if they could call the popstar. Meghan said “no” but she read aloud Beyonce’s text.

“She said that she wants me to feel safe and protected, she admires and respects my bravery and she thinks I was selected to break generational curses that need to be healed,” Meghan recounted.

• Nottingham cottage was small and Oprah couldn’t believe it

Harry and Meghan were at pains to stress that they were living in a cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace and not the palace itself.

A clip of Meghan dancing in the doorway of the “small cottage” at Kensington Palace that the couple lived in after they married.Credit: Netflix

They described Nottingham Cottage, their first home, as so small that Harry kept bumping his head. They shared a shot of their kitchen in the documentary and it certainly does look modest.

Without explicitly criticising their taxpayer-funded house, they said that when they had Oprah Winfrey around for tea, the US talk show host was shocked at what their royal life really looked like behind the scenes.

“No one would ever believe it,” Harry recounted Oprah as saying of the place.

• Harry thinks Charles and William owe him an apology

Harry said that after the Oprah interview, he returned to the UK for his grandfather’s funeral and that while no one wanted to talk about it, they did.

The then Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry at the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip.Credit: Getty

“It was hard, especially spending time having chats with my brother and my father, who just were very much focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation,” he said.

“So none of us really wanted to have to talk about it at my grandfather’s funeral, but we did.

“I’ve had to make peace with the fact that we’re probably never going to get genuine accountability or a genuine apology [from them],” Harry said, before insisting that he and Meghan were “moving on”.

And if you want to recap how it all went down, you can read back our live blog here.

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