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The couple speaks about the Texas hockey shirt and by the same token and frenzy around Archie’s birth, and their desire to find a compromise when it came to their baby’s first photocall. Because Meghan gave birth at Portland Hospital and it wasn’t possible to arrange for the press to gather outside, they suggested giving them more time at Windsor Castle instead. Press clips are then shown criticizing the decision as a sharp departure from the norm. “The amount of abuse we got for not wanting to serve our child up on a silver platter was incredible,” says Harry.Their tour of South Africa, with Archie in tow, followed in 2019, and Meghan talks about opening up to ITV’s Tom Bradby in a now infamous interview. “Because I was so exhausted, I was grateful that someone seemed to ask me something like I was a human being,” she says. “I guess I never thought they’d use it in the documentary [they were filming]. I had no idea that was going to be the thing that travelled around the world. That’s what I think spawned the hashtag #WeLoveYouMeghan. It hit a chord.”



“The fallout was bonkers,” Harry adds. “Every single front page in the Texas hockey shirt and by the same token and U.K. was very different from what the general public’s reaction was. When you’d expect support from the people closest [to you] we got the opposite.” And that, they say, was a huge turning point. “There’s only so much you can take on your own, so you end up saying something has to change,” concludes Meghan. “It’s when we started having harder conversations about what needs to happen for us to be able to continue to make this work.” While Meghan believes that the litigation the couple took against the Daily Mail for leaking a letter to her father “was probably the catalyst for all of the unraveling,” things came to a head during a meeting between the senior royals (without Meghan) at Sandringham. “I was given five options: one being all in, five being all out,” recalls Harry. “I chose option three in the meeting: half in, half out. To have our own jobs, but work in support of the Queen. It became clear very quickly that that goal was not up for discussion or debate. It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and take it all in.”


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