Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sent shockwaves around the world with their controversial Netflix series, which included ‘truth bombs’ about their famous engagement interview.

Across six episodes, they made a series of bombshell claims about royal life from the early days of their romance, their engagement, their fairytale wedding and the dramatic lead-up to them sensationally quitting the UK for life in America. Now 18 months on from its premiere, the docuseries is back in the headlines after BBC star Mishal Husain hit out at claims made by the couple in the show. BBC journalist Mishal conducted an engagement interview with the Sussexes that Meghan claimed in the documentary was an “orchestrated reality show”.
However, the BBC star defended the chat and said she “didn’t know what to make of” their version of events. And it seems that the engagement interview claim in the show isn’t the only one that has had doubt poured on it….
Meghan didn’t know who ‘Prince Haz’ was
In their engagement interview on the BBC, Meghan said she barely knew who Harry was because she is American. “Because I’m from the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. And so while I now understand very clearly there’s a global interest there, I didn’t know much about him,” she claimed.
And in first episode of the new docuseries, Meghan recalls the moment a pal informed her she was being eyed up by royalty. When a mutual friend said that “Prince Haz” was interested in her and “dying to meet”, Meghan says she replied: “Who’s that?” However, just minutes before in the same episode, Meghan and Harry are seen reacting to an old interview of hers from less than a year before they met.
During the chat, the interviewer asks Meghan to pick between Prince William and Prince Harry, to which she shrugs and pauses before eventually choosing her future husband. Harry leans forward giggling while saying “sure”, as Meghan then asks the Netflix film maker what year the interview was.
When it’s revealed it was from October 2015, Harry says it was less than a year before they met, to which his apologetic wife replies: “Honey I’m sorry. Of course I choose you.” So there is evidence in their own docuseries that Meghan did know who Prince Harry was, so it’s hard to believe she had no idea who ‘Prince Haz’ was.
Harry didn’t know Nottingham Cottage’s former residents
In the fourth episode of the documentary, the couple recall their first home together, Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace. But the pair were not very complimentary about their home saying it was not the grand palace people thought they lived in and that Oprah Winfrey was shocked when she visited them.
And Harry added: “The whole thing was really small on a slight lean with low ceilings. Whoever lived their before must have been small.” However, Harry would have known two the cottage’s former residents – and one is even taller than he is – his brother William.
William lived in the cottage with wife Kate in the months after their oldest son Prince George was born. Meanwhile another former resident was his aunt and Princess Diana’s older sister Lady Jane Fellowes and her husband Robert, a former private secretary of the late Queen.
Harry and Meghan had to get engaged in the UK
Speaking about their engagement, Harry told viewers that he was forced to propose to Meghan in the UK. He claims he had to ask the late Queen for her approval to get down on one knee to Meghan, which happened while they were living at Kensington Palace.