The final three episodes of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Netflix special have dropped, and with them, several royal bombshells.
In episode four, the couple pinpointed the moment things turned for her in the royal family.
“I think Australia was a real turning point,” a friend said. “Because they were so popular, so popular with the public.
“And the palace was incredibly threatened by that.”
Shortly afterward, Harry recalled a night out with the entire royal family in attendance at Buckingham Palace, including the Queen.
But the next day, it was Meghan on the front page of the newspapers, not the monarch or Kate.
“That’s when the hammer dropped,” Harry said.
“I went ‘Oh my God!’” Meghan recalled, seeing the front page.
“My mum felt the same way,” Harry said. “It was almost like from the wedding and everything I saw that they were building her up.
“And then there was a shift and they started to tear her down. I’m sorry. At the time, we laughed about it because it was so ridiculous.
“But an attack can be preposterous, but it’s still an attack, and that drip feed of constant attack on someone who is an individual or real person has an impact.”
In the opening seconds of episode four, she recounts how the family reacted to her joining it, a black, American actress, who she says never fit in.
“There was this moment were our private secretary said to me, [this family] it’s like a fish swimming perfectly,” Meghan said.
“Then there’s this foreign organism. And they were like ‘What is that? What is it doing here? it doesn’t look like us, it doesn’t move like us, get it off of us’.
“And she just explained that 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’ll be amazing.
“And I was really hoping that that was true.”
Meghan also spoke about her first official outing with the Queen but was deliberately glowing about the recently-deceased monarch.
“My first official engagement with Her Majesty was very early on after we got married,” she said.
“We took the royal train together And we had breakfast that morning and I had a really great time with her.
“I treated her as my husband’s grandma. When we got into the car in between engagements, she had a blanket and she pulled it over my knees and we’re sitting there in the car with this blanket and thought, I recognize and respect and see that you are the queen. But at this moment, I’m so grateful that there’s a grandmother figure because that feels like family. It was a really good day.”
