WHAT THEY SAID IN THE INTERVIEW

Meghan, on son Archie not being a prince or receiving a title:

They didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol, and (said) that he wasn’t going to receive security. In those months when I was pregnant ... we have in tandem the conversation of, you won’t be given security, not gonna be given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born.”

Meghan, on considering suicide:

I just didn’t want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember how he (Harry) just cradled me… I went to the institution and I said that I needed to go somewhere to get help ... And I was told that I couldn’t, that it wouldn’t be good for the institution.

Harry, on the royal family failing to speak out about the racist articles written about Meghan:

The saddest parts I guess was over 70 members of parliament, female members of parliament ... came out and called out the colonial undertones of articles and headlines written about Meghan, yet no one from my family ever said anything over those three years.”

Meghan, asked if she was not supported by the powers that be:

There’s the family, and then there’s the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it’s important to be able to compartmentalise that because the queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.”

Harry, on why Prince Charles had stopped taking his calls:

By that point I took matters into my own hands, it was like, I needed to do this for my family. This is not a surprise to anybody. It’s really sad that it’s got to this point, but I’ve got to do something for my own mental health, my wife’s and for Archie’s as well.”

Harry, asked what his mother would say about his decision to step away from his royal role:

I think she would feel very angry with how this has panned out and very sad. But ultimately, all she’s ever wanted is for us to be happy.”

Meghan, on allegations she had manipulated the whole situation:

Can you imagine how little sense that makes? I left my career, my life, I left everything because I love him, and our plan was to do this forever.”