The Sussexes' controversial documentary came to a conclusion this morning, as the final three episodes were released on Netflix.
As the world gains unprecedented access to the couple's private life, a spotlight was shone on their relationship with Buckingham Palace and senior members of the Royal family.
You can catch up on the first three episodes of Harry & Meghan here. Follow below for all the latest revelations from volume II.
1. Harry says William screaming at him was 'terrifying'
The Duke of Sussex says he was "terrified" when Prince William "screamed and shouted" at him as he takes aim at his brother.
In the fifth episode of the series, the Duke discusses the so-called Sandringham Summit, which took place at the late Queen’s Norfolk estate to thrash out the terms of their exit deal.
Recalling that pivotal meeting, which took place in January 2020, the Duke says he was given five options, ranging from all in to all out.
He chose option three - half in half out - which would allow them to have their own jobs but also work on behalf of the Queen. However, he says it quickly became clear that was not going to work out.
"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that weren't true and my grandmother sit there quietly and take it all in,” he says. "It was really hard."
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2. Press caused Meghan's miscarriage, says Harry
Prince Harry has escalated his war with the media by directly accusing the publishers of the Daily Mail of causing his wife Meghan to have a miscarriage.
The Duchess of Sussex was in the middle of a court battle with Associated Newspapers over their publication of a letter she wrote to her father Thomas Markle when she lost a baby in July 2020.
Although she has hinted in the past at the stress the case caused her at the time of the miscarriage, the couple have never gone as far as directly linking the two events.
Harry says: "I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did.
"I watched the whole thing. Now do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course we don't. But bearing in mind the stress that that caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw that that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her."
Read more: Prince Harry accuses Mail on Sunday publishers of causing Meghan’s miscarriage
3. William 'authorised' witness statement
Prince Harry accused his brother of allowing Jason Knauf, his press secretary, to issue a witness statement against Meghan during her legal case against Associated Newspapers.
A series of text messages were also released revealing that Meghan had told Knauf: "Obviously everything I’ve drafted is with the understanding that it could leak."
Jenny Afia, Meghan’s lawyer, said the statement was filed at the last minute and "wasn’t required".
She added: "Sadly, there’s just no way he could have done that without the authority of his bosses."
Meghan appeared angry as she said it was "so obvious" that Prince William had played a part in Knauf coming forward.
"It’s your brother, I’m not going to say anything about your brother but it’s so obvious," she claimed.
Harry added: "What’s even more obvious is the fact that they’re trying to cover that up," pointing out that Knauf was described as a former Sussex aide rather than an aide to William.
4. Meghan: ‘I lost my dad in this’
Meghan described King Charles, the then Prince of Wales as "very charming".
Of her wedding, she said: "Harry's dad is very charming. I said to him, I've lost my dad in this, so for him for be my father-in-law was really important to me.
"So I asked him to walk me down the aisle and he said yes. The whole thing was surreal".
Meghan said she was close to her father growing up but that their relationship fell apart "when the media got involved".
It was "very embarrassing for the family" when he started criticising the Royal family.
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She said she reached out to the Queen and asked what she thought she should do.
The late Queen and Charles advised her to send a letter, and said she went to great lengths to send it privately, but the signature given when it was received was not his.
On the publication of the letter: "It was horrendous."
Jenny Afia repeated a claim of the war on Meghan to suit other people’s agendas.
"Meg became this scapegoat for the palace," says Lucy Fraser.
Afia says barrage of negative stories about her father was the final straw. "Looking back it (legal action against the Mail on Sunday) was one of the first acts of them breaking away from the institution."
Meghan said: "Everything changed after that. That litigation was the catalyst for all of the unravelling."
5. Beyonce's text to Meghan
The Duchess of Sussex was told by Beyoncé that she was "selected to break generational curses".
The Duchess is filmed receiving a text message from the singer-songwriter after she and the Duke were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, and says: "Beyoncé just texted. I still can’t believe she knows who I am!"
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Read more: Beyoncé admires and respects my bravery and vulnerability, says Meghan
6. 'Our home wasn't big enough'
In episode one, the couple lament the reality of living at Kensington Palace, which "sounds like a palace" but, for them, wasn't.
"As far as people were concerned, we were living in a palace," Harry says. "And we were, in a cottage..."
Meghan, speaking in unison, clarifies: "In palace grounds."
"Kensington Palace sounds very regal, of course it does," she says. "It says 'palace' in the name!
"But Nottingham Cottage was so small."
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Harry added: "The whole thing's on a slight lean, really low ceilings. I don't know who was there before, they must have been very short."
Meghan continued: "He [Harry] would just hit his head constantly in that place because he's so tall."
Over pictures of themselves in the garden, she described "me with a hoe and H varnishing".
"It was just a chapter in our lives where I don't think anyone could believe what it was actually like behind the scenes."
Revealing that Oprah Winfrey came over for tea, the couple told how she had looked at the cottage and exclaimed: "No-one would ever believe it!"
How big is Nottingham Cottage really? Find out here.
7. Meghan 'did royal job better than those born to do it'
Prince Harry claimed his wife was "doing the job better" than "those born to do it".
Lucy Fraser, Meghan's friend, said: "Because they were so popular with the public the internals at the palace were incredibly threatened by that."
Prince Harry then said: "The issue is when someone who's marrying in who should be a 'supporting act' is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than those who was born to do this then upsets people - it shifts the balance."
8. Meghan the 'foreign organism'
Meghan recalls how her former private secretary, who she says worked for the Queen for some 20 years, compared her to a foreign organism that everyone would find it hard to adjust to, but that when they did, it would be "amazing".
She said: "I was really hopeful that that was true."
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Talking about the Royal family she said: “It’s like this fish that’s swimming perfectly… and one day this little organism comes in.
“This foreign organism, and this entire thing…[squeals].”
She then went on to imitate the royals, referencing herself.
Meghan said: “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.”
9. Couple's decision to leave the Royal family
Prince Harry said they discussed how to change their relationship with the institution in a way that would protect them and their well-being.
He called King Charles, then Prince of Wales, at the end of December and beginning of January and said “we’ve got a plan.”
Meghan added: “What if we move to Canada?”
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Meghan claimed that part of their decision was based on the fact that “the pack of the royal rota” was based in London, adding: “If we’re not there, you cannot cover what we’re doing.”
She suggests they told the Royal family: “You guys can be on all of the front pages, exactly as you want it. And we can just go about doing the work in the name of the Queen.”
Harry added: “If you want us to go and do work on behalf of the Queen, we’ll go and do it.
“We don’t want any taxpayer funding. Guess what - you get us but you get us for free.
“This was years in the making. We really wanted to remove the supposed public interest argument that the press had over every element of our lives.”
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The Duke of Sussex has denied claims he "blindsided" the Queen with the couple's social media statement on stepping back as senior royals.
After they suspected contents from Harry's letter to his father had been leaked, Meghan said in episode 5: "You could feel the ticking clock from that point. So with our team we decided that we were going to put out a statement to say that we were going to, sadly, be stepping back, not stepping down, but to just have a reduced role."
Meghan said their intentions to continue supporting the Queen and the Commonwealth were "in black and white" in the statement. Then the documentary cuts to news coverage of the fallout with news presenters' voices saying Charles and William were only sent a copy of the statement 10 minutes before it was released.
"This idea that I supposedly blindsided my grandmother just never happened. I have so much respect for her," Harry said.
Meghan added: "This has been on going for months and months. I think in some people's mind this was me going: 'Post!' - What?"
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The so-called Sandringham summit was arranged for the following Monday, by which point Meghan was back in Vancouver with Archie.
"Imagine a conversation, a round table discussion about the future of your life when the stakes are this high. And you as the mom and the wife and the target in many regards aren't invited to have a seat at the table."
Harry says: "It was clear to me that they planned it so you weren't in the room."
The Duke of Sussex said "there was no other option" but to leave the UK after the fallout from the meeting at Sandringham.
And the Duchess of Sussex told episode five: "Suddenly, what clicked in my head was, 'It's never going to stop.'
"Every rumour, every negative thing, every lie and everything I knew wasn't true, and that the palace knew wasn't true and internally they knew wasn't true, was being allowed to fester."
Harry said: "So there was no other option at this point. I said that we need to get out of here."
10. Couple claim palace leaked stories to press
Prince Harry has accused palace communications teams of "leaking and planting" negative stories, suggesting his own family did not stop it.
The couple said they found out the tabloids knew about their proposal to leave as working royals, with Meghan blaming the fact that Charles had asked Harry to put it in writing.
"It became clear that the institution had leaked the fact that we were going to be moving back to Canada," Harry says. "The key piece of this story that made me aware that the contents of that letter between me and my father had been leaked was that we were willing to relinquish our Sussex titles. That was the giveaway.
"I was like wow, our story, our life, literally got taken from underneath us."
Describing a moment with his father, the King, Harry said: "My dad said to me, 'darling boy you can't take on the media. The media will always be the media'. And I said I fundamentally disagree."
Harry also accused his brother's office Kensington Palace of trading negative stories, saying it was "heart-breaking" to see something he and William promised would they would "never ever do" taking place.
"William and I both saw what happened in our dad's office. And we made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office.
"I would far rather get destroyed in the press than play along with this game or this business of trading.
"To see my brother's office engage in the very thing we said we'd never do...that was heartbreaking."
11. 'We are on the freedom flight'
Episode six begins with Harry doing a video selfie at 6am on March 14, 2020 saying “we are on the freedom flight. We are leaving Canada and we are headed to Los Angeles. Sssh.”
They are on a private jet with Doria, Archie and their two dogs.
Harry tells the documentary makers: “I wonder what would have happened had we not got out when we did.”
Meghan: “Our location was exposed, we knew our security was being pulled, everyone in the world knew where we were.”
Harry: “This is the current situation thanks to another amazing friend who we’ve never met but who wants to help.”
Read: Duke of Sussex claims Royal family took six weeks to realise they had moved to America
12. 'All of this will stop if I am not here'
Prince Harry has told how he now "hates himself" for how he dealt with Meghan's thoughts of suicide, saying he had been "trained" to think of the "institution" first.
Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother, said: "I remember her telling me that she had wanted to take her own life. And that really broke my heart. Because I knew that it was bad, but to just constantly be picked at by these vultures, picking away at her spirit, that she would actually think of not wanting to be here... that's not an easy one for a mom to hear."
Wiping tears from her eyes, she added: "And I can't protect her. H can't protect her."
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Harry added: "I was devastated. I knew that she was struggling, we were both struggling. But I'd never thought it would get to that stage. And the fact that it got to that stage, I felt angry and ashamed. I didn't deal with it particularly well. I dealt with it as institutional Harry rather than husband Harry.
"And what took over my feelings was my royal role. I had been trained to worry more about what are people going to think if we don't go to this event... looking back on it now I hate myself for it.
"What she needed from me was so much more than I was able to give."
"They knew how bad it was," alleges Harry. "They thought why couldn't she just deal with it? As if to say, well, everybody else has dealt with it, why can't she deal with it?
"But this was different. It was really different. But even if you strip that all away and say fine, it was exactly the same, so do we still believe that she should have just sucked it up like other members of the family?
"Or does one think maybe it's about time that we stop?"
The Duchess opens up about mental health struggles.
13. Expectation on 'Diana's boy' to have public wedding
Recalling their wedding day in Windsor, Meghan said she couldn't believe how "calm" she was, and questioned why it was she was so relaxed.
She said: "All I wanted was a mimosa, a croissant, and to play 'Going To The Chapel'. So that's what I did. And it was great."
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Harry, sitting on a sofa with his wife, then said: "There was an expectation, right? Diana’s boy [pointing to himself].
"There was an expectation to have a public wedding.
"It was like, mission complete with William, let’s see if this goes the distance with Harry.
"And then we can literally go 'job done'."
14. Serena Williams says Kingdom Choir 'really courageous'
Speaking about the Kingdom Choir gospel group which performed at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding, friend and tennis star Serena Williams said during episode four of Harry & Meghan: "To have her culture represented at that wedding. Amazing, I loved it. I thought it was really courageous breaking boundaries but not trying to."
15. 'Abuse we got for not serving up Archie was incredible'
The Sussexes talk extensively about the pressure they felt to do a hospital steps photo shoot.
"The amount of abuse that we got for not wanting to serve our child up on a silver platter was incredible," says Harry.
In episode four of Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about disagreeing with the palace over where they would do their post-birth photocall with Archie.
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She said: "There was already the pressure of the picture with Archie on the steps. Are they going to do that or are they not? But I had been really worried going in to that labour because I am older and I didn't know if I would have to have a C-section.
"I had a very long-standing relationship with my doctor and that is who I trusted with my pregnancy. And they said, 'Right but she is at Portland Hospital and the steps are at this hospital (the Lindo Wing). And I said, 'OK, we could do a photocall in front of Portland Hospital'.
"They said: 'It is impossible. We couldn't barricade the streets off and it would create a threat for the emergency room entrance because that is where you would have to do this picture'.
Meghan said she asked what the "hybrid" solution was and whether they could give the press more time at the castle, adding, "And everything internal was like 'Yes, yes, oh great, yes'. At no point did someone go, 'Absolutely not'."
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The documentary team goes on to interview one of Archie's nannies, Lorren Khumalo, for the first time, along with a series of private photographs of baby Archie in the bath, being fed and playing.
16. Friend compares palace to an abusive 'batterer'
Close friend Tyler Perry compares the Palace to an abusive "batterer" in a toxic relationship as he compares the treatment of Meghan to that of Princess Diana.
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Referencing Diana he says: “I realised that after the marriage ended she was thrown to the wolves. So to tell Meghan that her feelings were valid, hurt…but I didn’t want to lie to her.
“She was afraid of them destroying her or making her think that she was crazy. I saw my mother being abused for years, I knew the symptoms.
“To use the institution to try and do all the things that a batterer would do, like ‘we’re gonna cut off all the money, we’re gonna not give you security, we’re gonna do all those things to make you comply and come back’ and for the both of them to have the wherewithal to say ‘I don’t give a damn if it’s the palace, I’m outta here’, I applauded that.”
17. Meghan on Queen: 'I treated her as my husband's grandma'
The Duchess of Sussex has spoken of her first official engagement with the Queen during the fourth episode of Netflix series Harry & Meghan.
Meghan said: "I treated her as my husband's grandma, and knowing that of course there has to be a completely different sense of propriety in public, when you're sitting and having breakfast to just be able to talk.
"When we got into the car in between engagements she had a blanket and she put it over my knees and we were sitting in this car with this blanket and I thought 'I recognise and respect and see that you're the Queen, but in this moment I'm so grateful that there is a grandmother figure because that feels like family'.
"And because I was so so close with my grandmother," Meghan said, adding she had taken care of her grandmother "in her final years".
The Duchess of Sussex added of her engagement with the Queen that it was "such a good day, we laughed".
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18. Harry on Prince Philip: 'He went peacefully. He went happily'
Speaking about the late Duke of Edinburgh, Harry said in the final episode of the Netflix series as footage of his grandfather's funeral was shown: "I was actually really happy for my grandfather. He went quietly. He went peacefully. He went happily."
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Asked about what it was like returning to the UK for the funeral, Harry said: "It was hard, especially spending time having chats with my brother and my father who just were very much focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation.
"So none of us really wanted to have to talk about it at my grandfather's funeral, but we did.
"I've had to make peace with the fact that I'm probably never going to get genuine accountability or a genuine apology.
"You know, my wife and I, we're moving on. We were focused on what's coming next."