Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix docuseries was released on Thursday. The first three episodes share the couple’s love story and explore the challenges facing them from racism to the tabloid media.
The Duke of Sussex also revealed he doesn’t have many early memories of his mother Princess Diana who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was just 12 years old.
During the first episode, Harry spoke of his childhood within the Royal Family and viewers saw archive footage of Diana and Harry’s father, the then Prince of Wales, alongside Harry and his older brother William.
Harry explained: “My childhood, I remember, was filled with laughter, filled with happiness and filled with adventure.”
He continued: “I don’t have many early memories of my mum. It was almost like, internally, I sort of blocked them out.
“But I always remember her laugh, her cheeky laugh, her always saying to me ‘You can get in trouble – just don’t get caught’. I’ll always be that cheeky person inside.”
Harry also spoke about his experience with the media as a child, explaining that the majority of his memories as a young boy were of his family being “swarmed by paparazzi”.
The footage is shown of the media photographing the family on holiday and Harry said: “Rarely do we have a holiday without someone with a camera jumping out of the bush or something.”
He said he could “always see on his mum’s face” when she was “stressed” about the media attention.
Alongside footage of a family skiing holiday with Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Harry said the media also made him uncomfortable: “Paparazzi used to harass us to the point where we had to be forced into smiling and answering questions to the travelling press pack.”
