Meghan Markle has said she received a death threat while living in Canada, while Prince Harry has condemned what he called the “feeding frenzy” surrounding their relationship, as the couple discussed their lives during their new Netflix show.
In the third episode of the six-part show, the first three installments of which dropped on the streaming service at 8am, Meghan talks about her move to Toronto in 2020.
She says: “I would say to the police if any other woman in Toronto said to you I have six grown men who are sleeping in their cars around my house who follow me everywhere that I go and I feel scared, wouldn’t you say that it was stalking?
“And they said yes, but there’s really nothing we can do because of who you’re dating.
“I was like, so I’m just supposed to live like this? And then I got a death threat and things changed because I needed to have security.”
Meanwhile, Harry observes: “To see another woman in my life, that I love, go through this feeding frenzy, that’s hard. It is basically the hunter versus the prey.”
He complains that dating Meghan “became a combination of car chases, anti-surveillance driving and disguises, which isn’t a particularly healthy way to start a relationship but we always came at it with as much humour as possible”.
He adds: “Whenever we saw each other we would give each other a massive hug and try and have as much of a normal life as possible.”
The programme is billed at the beginning of episode one as a “first-hand account of Harry & Meghan’s story told with never before seen personal archive”.
In the first episode, he says: “It’s the nature of being born into the Royal Family.
“The level of hate that has been stirred up in the last three years, especially at my wife, and my son, I’m genuinely concerned for the safety of my family.”
Meghan also revealed she and Harry had been set up by a friend who referred to him as “Prince Haz”.
She then apparently scrolled through his Instagram feed and was impressed by the number of pictures of him in Africa.
