futures would look like? they launched sussex royal website, which had a, sort of, blueprint of how they envisaged their future roles would be. which would be a combination of supporting the queen and the monarchy with official work. but also, doing their own thing, abroad, and pursuing their own-commercial projects, too. reporter: the press went into overdrive. cranking out story, after story. and the queen, anxious to get the situation under control, summoned prince harry, prince charles, and prince william, to her home in sandringham. the discussions were to thrash out how this would work and whether it was possible for harry and meghan to be part-time royals. that was never really something that the queen was ever going to be onboard with. why doesn t that hybrid role work? the problem is if you are a member of the royal family, who undertakes official work on behalf of the institution and the uk. and you are, then, also, using
harry upped his game and they began a long-distance romance. meeting up in london and toronto, where meghan, then an actress, was filming the tv show suits. wow, you re pretty. good. you hit on me, we can get it out of the way that i am not interested. the whole time, they kept their relationship a secret. when they first met, nobody knew about it. which is, itself, impressive. it is impressive. i mean, the great fear about harry finding a wife was always going to be the intrusion of the press. because that is what had killed two previous long-term relationships. i interviewed harry just before he met meghan, the month before, and we talked about, you know, his private life at the time. and he described it as massive paranoia that sat inside him, with regards to who he could possibly embark on a relationship with. so i think that made it very difficult to find someone, who could cope with that kind of spotlight. and what happened to his mother was never far from his
in terms of race. then, they will do that privately. it s not what s wrong with you. it s what s happened to you. reporter: in may, apple tv plus premiered a docu-series harry co-produced with oprah called the me you can t see. about mental health. harry opened up more about the lack of support he felt from his family, as he and meghan struggled. i thought my family would help. but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence. or total neglect. we spent four years trying to make it work. we did everything that we possibly could to stay there, and carry on doing the role and doing the job. reporter: he said the fear of history repeating itself was what pushed him to leave the monarchy. i, then, had a son, who i had far rather be solely focused on, rather than every time i look in his eyes, wondering whether my
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successful. whereas, you know, william and kate spent many years getting to know each other. and making sure that she would be able to take on those responsibilities and the weight of responsibility. and i think, william probably just wanted to make sure that meghan knew what she was getting herself into. what prince william may have said, with brotherly concern, according to sources close to harry was taken in a very different way. that it wasn t brotherly concern but, perhaps, he had overstepped, in a way. there were also stories in the press that painted meghan in an unflattering light. one saying that meghan made kate cry during the wedding preparations. what was the truth? that story has been reported, both ways. of course, meghan said that it was the other way around. so it s very hard to know. and there were reports that meghan was difficult to work for. there were reports that three of