CHEERING AND MUSIC
TOM BRADBY: It was a journey through Africa...
..but not always the one we expected.
Harry and Meghan arrived in South Africa,
a country blighted by its history of racial segregation,
with a clear statement of solidarity and support.
MEGHAN: I am here with you as a mother,
as a woman of colour and as your sister.
EXCITED CHEERING
Then the prince set off across this dramatic landscape,
championing his mother's work and his own.
PRINCE HARRY: It's been quite emotional,
retracing my mother's steps 22 years on.
Let's finish what was started.
But as this journey wore on, another human story emerged...
CHEERING AND SHRIEKING
..of a man still wrestling with the legacy of his background,
of his birth, and the tragic death of his mother.
CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK
Every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click,
every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back.
And of one particular fear - that history might repeat itself
as his wife struggles to adapt to a life in the spotlight.
You add this on top of just trying to be a new mom
or trying to be a newlywed...
Also, thank you for asking,
because not many people have asked if I'm OK,
but it's, uh...
..it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.
And the answer is, would it be fair to say,
not really OK?
This is Cape Town.
One of the world's most beautiful playgrounds...
if you're rich...
..and largely, still, if you're white.
It is only a few miles from the lush gardens and pools
of the city's suburbs to the bleak and dusty streets of the townships.
POLICE CAR RADIO
Nyanga is the murder capital of South Africa,
and one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
So what's it like for you, policing an area like this?
There were nearly 300 murders in the Nyanga township
in the last year alone.
'Violence against women is endemic, conviction rates extremely low.
'All this, it seems, is the legacy of decades of institutional racism.
'It's not the usual starting point for a royal tour, perhaps,
'but a symbolic place
'for the world's most talked-about mixed-race couple
'to make their entrance.'
CHEERING AND WHISTLING
DRUMMING AND FAST-PACED MUSIC
This is Harry and Meghan's first public engagement
of a packed ten-day tour.
They will use the power of their public platform
to highlight causes they are passionate about,
hoping to turn the relentless media interest
in them as a couple into a positive force for change.
It's a simple formula,
arguably the cornerstone of the Royal Family's appeal,
but it is being given vivid new form here.
They are visiting a charity known as The Justice Desk,
supported by the Queen's Commonwealth Trust,
which teaches local people about their human rights,
but also trains young women in how physically to defend themselves,
something that is all too necessary here.
Almost every day, we get attacked.
Self-defence is really a crucial thing to have.
Men take advantage of women because we are not strong,
we're not powerful,
and we can't fight off men.
Now I can stand for myself when something is happening to me.
TEACHER: Big smiles, everyone!
CHEERING
'I have known Prince Harry for almost 20 years now,
'in good times and bad,
'but never at a moment of such change.
'His new wife has had to wrestle with a new country, new job,
'new life, new family, new baby.
'It is an awful lot to contend with.
'So this trip is a chance to look at the work they want to do and why,
'but also to see how they're faring in the glare of the spotlight.'
How are you? Hey.
So that, I mean, we could only hear, not see that,
but it seems... DISTANT SINGING
..like a pretty positive session for such a serious subject.
Oh, my goodness. It's the most inspiring.
We just got here, and to see everything that they're doing,
but also that it's not just the girls who are feeling empowered,
it's the role that the men and the young boys
who are also helping them regain that.
There's a lot of open wounds here,
but you've seen a community like Nyanga,
where this is making an impact with all of them
and how happy they are... Yeah.
..to be here, and to be with each other. It's a great start.
It's a tremendous fightback from women all across South Africa.
You'll be acutely aware of that. Of course.
And your job here to amplify those voices, do you think?
I think the role is to listen and to learn as much as we can,
but it would be completely inauthentic to not be here
and go, "What can we do to help?"
The energy is contagious.
But it's just the beginning.
Us coming here is shining a spotlight on something that is...
a group of people, group of women and a group of men,
that are doing unbelievable things in a really troubled community.
And if we can just shine a spotlight on it
and encourage other people to come forward, then it's great.
Sorry, Tom! Do you want to go?
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello!
May I just say that while I'm here with my husband
as a member of the Royal Family,
I want you to know that for me, I am here with you as a mother,
as a wife,
as a woman, as a woman of colour and as your sister.
ENTHUSIASTIC CHEERING
The Duchess of Sussex spoke directly to these women -
her sisters, as she called them -
in an appearance that would make waves all across the world,
but strike a particular chord here in South Africa.
For the people of Nyanga to really
know that they are ordinary people,
it was exciting.
Meghan, everybody knows by now, is a hugger.
And one little boy just got up and hugged her.
It was so beautiful.
CHEERING
'Almost everywhere you go in Cape Town,
'the shadows of apartheid are visible.
'Racial segregation may have officially ended 25 years ago,
'but the scars it left are evident in the tapestry of rich suburbs,
'ghettos and townships across the city.
'If there's anywhere here that truly captures the legacy of apartheid,
'it's this green field in the middle of the city,
'the once-thriving District Six.
'In 1966, it was declared a whites-only area.
'Over time, those living in the district
'who were predominantly non-white were told to leave,
'their homes gutted and destroyed.'
WOMAN: 'We were once a big family.
'No matter what race we were, we lived together.
'But now, it's just green pastures as far as the eye can see.'
Ruth Jeffers' mother was one of thousands to be forcibly moved
from District Six with her family.
'They moved the people of colour, and later on,'
they demolished all our homes. Others said,
"You people of colour will never be able to come back
"to live here again."
CHEERING
50 years later, the sheer presence here
of a mixed-race couple at the heart of the British establishment
is, to many, a beacon of hope and change.
She's our African princess,
because she's the first one of colour in the Royal House,
and that makes us really happy.
It's quite a struggle, when you grow up as a mixed-race child.
Either you're not white enough, or you're not black enough,
so you're in the middle,
and then you have to find your identity
based on the middle,
and with Meghan creating awareness about this,
it makes people feel, "It's OK to be me."
In fact,
the youngest Royal was about to make an appearance in Cape Town.
Again, the setting the couple chose
for the first glimpse of their five-month-old son, Archie,
was steeped in symbolism.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: 'We will be free!'
Black and white together!
In all the dark days of apartheid,
there were iconic figures who carried the hopes of their people.
Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, and the man the young Sussex family
are meeting this morning, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
LAUGHTER
I think he knows exactly what's going on.
Hello!
MEGHAN LAUGHS How are you, are you OK?
I'm good, yes! OK.
It's a lot, with a five-month-old. Well, I was going to say tiring.
Life is, right, but I think any mom can relate to that.
But he's doing really well, he's been sleeping really well.
Just got to start with, that was quite a moment,
introducing your little boy to this icon of the anti-apartheid struggle.
I know, I know.
It's not lost on us what a huge and significant moment that is.
I think Archie will look back at that in so many years
and understand that right at the beginning of his life,
he was fortunate enough to have this moment with one of the best
and most impactful leaders of our time, so it's really special.
When I saw you walk into the town,
for anyone who remembers the apartheid era,
I think that will go down as quite a moment.
What was going through your head at that particular point in time?
In Nyanga?
Yeah, when you arrived in this country.
Well, it's my first time in South Africa,
and I think you can talk about all the issues
that are important to you, and really advocate for them,
but then when you're on the ground and you're experiencing it
and you're seeing what's happening,
I think it resonates in a different way,
but the biggest takeaway I'm struck by
is how much optimism there is.
These women and these young girls especially are really
just so empowered and that's uplifting, right,
you go there and you just feel it so deeply inside,
so it was a really strong start for our trip.
It's only day two!
You talked about being a woman of colour
in the same breath as you talked about
being in the Royal Family, and I think people are very interested
in your experience of race in Britain and America,
and being a mixed-race couple,
and I presume the reason you spoke in those terms was quite deliberate?
I would hope that people... the world will get to a point
where you just see us as a couple who's in love, right,
because I don't wake up every day
and identify as being anything other than who I've always been.
I'm Meghan, and I married this incredible man.
This, to me, is just part of our love story.
But, for me, when I made the choice to add those words into the speech,
it was really at the last minute, and I said to Harry,
"What do you think if I add this in?"
I don't know. It just felt right.
And he very kindly and supportively said,
"If that's what feels right, then that's what you should say."
Because it's true, before I was part of this family,
that's how I identified with people in connection.
As a mother now, as a wife now, but just as a woman,
and as a woman of colour,
which has been brought to the forefront in a more prominent way.
Have a great time in Jo'burg. Thanks!
See you soon. See you later.
Hello, sleepy!
Let's go.
'It was still early in the tour, but one thing was becoming clear.
'Since Meghan appeared on the scene,
'there have been a string of tabloid stories,
'some delving into her family life, others accusing her and Harry
'of everything from arrogance to hypocrisy.
'But the story here was to be less about the whys and wherefores,
'the rights and wrongs,
'and more about the human impact behind the scenes.'
CHEERFUL BRASS BAND MUSIC
'If there is one place in Cape Town
'that captures the diversity of this rainbow nation,
'it is Bo-Kaap.
'Today is Heritage Day. Throughout South Africa,
'people of all ethnicities
'are celebrating their cultural ancestry.'
CHEERING
Bo-Kaap is home to people from all walks of life,
including many Muslims.
Thank you so much. That is so good.
Every time we do these visits, I always make the same mistake.
Someone offers me food, I eat it and they go,
"Oh, by the way, it's spicy." LAUGHTER
It is informal stuff, but the visit is significant
in a diverse area still struggling for recognition.
We don't see Meghan as a woman of colour at all.
We don't see colour,
because we came through a hard period in the past
where colour played a major role
in a nonsensical system called the apartheid system.
And with royalty coming to Bo-Kaap, it makes us feel stronger,
that our battle does not be ignored.
And their presence actually gives us hope for the future.
LAUGHTER
We love it here.
I've never been to this part of Africa. It's incredible.
It's so diverse. Absolutely.
Rich in history, but also just the optimism, the hope that you feel.
It's just so key, because there's so much to still overcome,
and at the same time, to actively push towards it.
It's really an inspiring place to be, and the first place for us
as a family on a trip like this, to bring our baby.
LAUGHTER
He clearly loves Africa, as well, because he was out there
looking out of the window.
He's found his voice now, he was bouncing up and down
and making more noise than he's ever made before.
And he's smiling all the time.
We thought he was happy before. He is the happiest here.
Excellent. Don't you want to get in, as well?
CHEERING
'After three colourful days in Cape Town, the tour party splits,
'and Prince Harry heads north on his own.'
The focus now is on the issues and charities
he has spent many years creating, building and supporting.
In the Botswanan bush where Harry once brought his girlfriend, Meghan,
to introduce her to Southern Africa, the focus
is on his long-standing passions of conservation and the environment.
15 years, I've been coming here. It's a sense of escapism,
a real sense of purpose when I come down here.
CLAPPING IN RHYTHM
I have some of my closest friends here over the years.
I came here '97, '98, straight after my mum died,
so it was a nice place to get away from it all.
Now, I feel deeply connected to this place and to Africa.
RHYTHMIC CLAPPING
'Here, he is supporting the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy,
'his grandmother's ambitious global tree-planting project.'
My family plants trees all over the world.
My grandmother has probably planted over a thousand trees,
but I'm not trying to take anything away from her,
but I don't think anyone's planted a tree this big!
Like his mother before him,
Harry is not afraid to speak out on issues some would see as political,
that he insists are humanitarian and undeniable, like climate change.
It is an emergency, it's a race against time
and one which we are losing.
Everyone knows it, there's no excuse for not knowing it.
I think the most troubling part of it is,
I don't believe there is anybody in this world that can deny science.
Undeniable science and facts.
Science and facts that have been around for the last 30, 40 years,
and it's only getting stronger and stronger.
I... I... I genuinely don't understand how anyone in this world,
whoever we are, you, us, children, leaders, whoever it is,
no-one can deny science,
otherwise we live in a very, very troubling world.
'The pace of the tour is unrelenting.
'And that same day, we find ourselves on the Chobe River...
'..as Harry joins the Botswanan defence force on poaching patrol.
'His is a great journey in many ways,
'but aside from the very public engagements,
'there is a private emotional undertow that becomes more visible
'as we reach the next country.'
Angola is a nation five times the size of the UK,
devastated by 40 years of brutal war.
GUNFIRE
With relentless military campaigns on both sides, it became
one of the most heavily-mined countries in the world.
At the height of the conflict,
dozens of people were maimed and killed every single day.
After the war, tens of thousands of live landmines
remained a constant threat to ordinary Angolans.
WAILING
In 1997, months before she died,
Harry's mother, Princess Diana, came to Angola
to draw attention to the devastation that landmines were still wreaking,
and the desperate need for clearance.
Here in Huambo, she walked across a minefield
in front of the world's media,
and was criticised by some for being too political.
I'm only trying to highlight a problem
that's going on all around the world. That's all.
REPORTER: It's been said, though,
that you're aligning yourself with Labour policy.
Do you think that's wise?
Labour? I don't know what you're talking about.
The images of her trip became world-famous,
and three months after she died,
the Ottawa Treaty was signed, in which 122 countries
agreed to stop the use of landmines as weapons of war.
Harry is continuing his mother's work here
with the demining charity The Halo Trust.
'What we do is very simple.'
We stop people being killed by landmines,
we give jobs to lots of people who would be unemployed,
and once we've cleared the land, we turn it over to agriculture.
'The really evil aspect of this is the fact that
'decades after the war, they're still killing people,
'children, innocent civilians,'
and we've got to get rid of these things.
The ambitious aim is for Angola to be free of landmines by 2025.
OK, guys. Quiet!
Silencio! Firing!
EXPLOSION
Landmines are an unhealed scar of war.
By clearing the landmines, we can help this community find peace,
and with peace comes opportunity.
Later today, I will visit Huambo
to see the place where my mother walked through a minefield in 1997.
Once heavily mined, the second city of Angola is now safe.
Prince Harry cuts a somewhat lonely figure
as he walks down the same street his mother made famous,
now cleared of mines, developed, and returned to normal life.
'It has been quite emotional,
'retracing my mother's steps along this street 22 years on
'and to see the transformation that has taken place'
from an unsafe and desolate area
into a vibrant community of local businesses and colleges.
Let's finish what was started.
Let us consign these weapons to the history books for good.
CHEERING
Around 88,000 Angolans
are still living with injuries caused by landmines.
The vast majority of victims now are civilians,
and nearly half are children.
Manuel was treated at the local hospital here in Huambo,
visited by Princess Diana.
If there was a single image that captured Diana's visit to Angola,
it was of her with 13-year-old mine victim Sandra.
22 years later, Harry is meeting her.
You still look as young as you did in those pictures
all those years ago.
She is now married with five children.
One of them is called Diana.
Today, the hospital in Huambo is being renamed
in memory of the princess.
It has been an honour to retrace my mother's steps today.
I lost her 22 years ago,
but the memory of her is with me daily, and her legacy lives on.
It had been an emotional few days.
But it was increasingly clear to me
that Harry had been under huge strain for much longer than that.
Last year, I had to take some time off work
to wrestle with my own mental health issues, and as I watched Harry here,
'it was obvious to me just how much pressure he felt under,
'and the toll it was taking on him.'
The focus is inevitably on your mum.
We've talked about grief a lot in the past, on film.
We've also talked about it a lot privately, I think it's fair to say.
Do you feel at peace, in a way, yet?
Or is it still a wound that festers?
Erm, I think probably a wound that festers.
I think being part of this family and this role and this job,
every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click,
every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back.
So... in that respect...
..it's the worst reminder of her life,
as opposed to the best.
Erm... Being here now, 22 years later,
trying to finish what she started, will be incredibly emotional.
But everything that I do reminds me of her.
But as I said, with the role, with the job
and the sort of pressures that come with that,
I get reminded of the bad stuff, unfortunately.
I've known you a long time.
Too long!
Yeah, we're both getting older. LAUGHS
It seems to me that you are under a lot of pressure.
It feels like...
I don't know whether there's a little bit of worrying
about your wife being under the same pressure
as your mother was under,
but I feel like you're living in this goldfish bowl,
the interest is huge, the pressure is great.
Do you want to talk me through the last year and where you're at?
I think you've probably, yeah, slightly hit the nail on the head.
My mum clearly taught me a certain set of values,
of which I will always try and uphold,
erm, despite the role and the job,
erm, that sometimes that entails,
if you know what I mean. But I think...
..I will... I will always protect my family,
and now I have a family to protect,
erm, so everything that she went through and what happened to her
is incredibly raw every single day. And that's not me being paranoid,
that's just me not wanting a repeat of the past.
And if anybody else knew what I knew...
..be it a father, be it a husband, anyone,
you'd probably be doing exactly what I'm doing, as well.
How do you deal with that pressure, though,
because we've talked about mental health a lot in the past.
For those who don't know, I was off work last year.
We talked about it a lot then.
Do you feel like you're managing it,
or do you feel like it's just hard every day?
It's management.
It's constant management, as you know,
and as a lot of other people watching this probably know as well.
I thought I was out of the woods, and then suddenly, it all came back,
and I suddenly realised, no, this is something I have to manage.
Part of this job and part of any job,
like everybody, means putting on a brave face
and turning a cheek to a lot of the stuff.
Erm, but, again, for me, and for my wife,
of course, there's a lot of stuff that hurts.
Especially when the majority of it is untrue.
But, erm, all we need to do is focus... focus on being real
and focus on being the people that we are
and standing up for what we believe in.
I will, you know, I will not be bullied
into playing a game that killed my mum.
'It has been a year of big change,
'with all the complications that brings.
'This includes the decision to split his office off
'from that of his brother, to whom he's always been close.'
There's been a lot of talk in the press
about rifts with your brother. How much of that is true?
CHUCKLES Um... Part of this... this role
and part of this job and this family
being under the pressure that it's under,
inevitably, you know, stuff, erm... stuff happens,
but we're brothers, we'll always be brothers.
We're certainly on different paths at the moment,
but I will always be there for him,
and as I know he'll always be there for me.
We don't see each other as much as we used to,
because we're so busy,
erm, but I love him dearly, and the majority of the stuff
is probably... Well, the majority of the stuff is created out of nothing,
erm, but as I said, as brothers, you have good days, you have bad days.
That's families for you.
CHANTING IN UNISON
Whatever your thoughts on this modern royal couple,
you have to have the hardest of hearts
not to be impressed by the causes they are championing here.
SINGING
Malawi is the fourth-poorest country in the world.
SINGING AND CLAPPING
'Here, the Queen's Commonwealth Trust,
'of which Harry is president and Meghan vice president,
'is working with the Campaign For Female Education...
'..helping to create a network of future female leaders.'
ENTHUSIASTIC SINGING
Women's education is perhaps more Meghan's specialism than Harry's.
She was back in South Africa promoting other causes,
but still found a way to join the conversation.
A CAPPELLA SINGING
Thank you all.
I'm so happy to be here and I've been listening in a bit.
First off, great dance moves! LAUGHTER
The singing, the dancing, was infectious.
And for the women, this was a hugely significant visit.
'It was amazing, and, to be honest, to have both of them in the room
'physically and virtually is incredible.'
Do you sing like that all the way through class every day?
This was just 10% of what we do, because for us,
music provides that unifying point.
We're not just singing for show,
we sing because it says we are together.
ALL: Yes! It says we can redeem,
it means that we can speak in the same language,
it means we can express all that pumped energyness...
ALL: YES!
..so, yes, we sing!
ANGELINE SINGS, THE OTHERS SING IN REPLY
You can feel here
why Harry is energised by spending time in Africa.
His passion for the continent is not new,
it is something I've witnessed all his adult life.
'15 years ago, I made a documentary with the teenage prince
'on his gap year in Lesotho,
'where he was continuing his mother's work
'with children with HIV.'
'I don't know, I just believe
'I've got a lot of my mother in me, basically.
'I always wanted to carry on my mother's legacy as much as I can.'
I don't want to take over from her, cos I never will,
I don't think anyone can,
but I want to try and carry it on to make her proud.
The public donated a large sum of money off the back of the film
to help the children it featured.
Harry then decided to create his own foundation,
and 15 years later, it is thriving across Southern Africa,
helping people whose lives have been blighted by HIV and AIDS.
Still, he feels, his work is not done.
I'm never like, sort of, "Yes, tick, we've done that",
because once you start something like that,
you've got to see it through.
Look, there's still so much to do. I'm never...
I'm never satisfied with it.
I always want to try and do more, try and raise more,
and I think that's potentially an unhealthy way
in this kind of a role, this kind of a job,
because you're never really satisfied.
I'm not proud until, in my mind,
that we've actually really made a difference.
That, for me, is the definition of success.
'One look at Harry's Africa schedule, and you can see
'he's determined to make this tour count.
'We are now more than halfway through,
'and he is visiting Liwonde National Park in Malawi.'
GUIDE: Using hand signals, the patrol maintains covert
in order to remain undetected to the poachers.
As president of African Parks,
Prince Harry has worked with the Malawian government
to forge a collaboration between British forces and local rangers.
Today, they are staging a joint demonstration on tracking poachers.
APPLAUSE
'The official schedule now says Harry has an afternoon off.
'In fact, he is visiting a local school funded by African Parks,
'whose work now goes beyond conservation
'to support local communities.'
"I will go to the river today.
"I went to bed..."
The idea, to give local people the chance to benefit from tourism,
so they're directly invested in conservation.
He is four countries and 26 official engagements into the tour now.
"He jumps up. He is very quick.
"He has a fish in the net.
"He has a fish in HIS net."
This tour has, kind of, gone down particularly well back home.
Exhausting. Exhausting, yeah... Well, if you will pack it in!
Everyone says, "You've only got yourselves to blame,"
and other people think it must be a holiday.
But it's true, we've traversed across Africa, right?
Yeah. We've covered an incredible amount of distance,
we've met a hell of a lot of people, and the programme has been insane.
Somebody said to me on day three or four,
"Why do you cram in so much?"
There's a hell of a lot to do, and a trip like this,
because it's official overseas work, we need to make sure that the money
that's spent on a trip like this, that it's worth it.
Worth it for the UK government, worth it for the British people,
so they can understand the impact that we're trying to have.
What's interesting is that you are clearly very passionate
about the values you espouse.
We've seen it all the way through this trip.
I guess the thing people are trying to work out is just the jigsaw...
You know, is this the new Royal Family?
Is this how you see it? Is this the new way of doing things?
How does it fit into everything?
No, I don't think there's a new way or an old way.
We're certainly not trying to lead the way.
We're trying to do what feels natural to us.
Erm, and try and be, you know, not try and be, just be authentic.
SINGING
There is a reason Prince Harry has always loved Africa.
To be at the heart of this great continent is to feel far away
from the stresses and pressures of the Western world.
It's been really obvious on this tour,
your love of this continent.
Is this a part of your future, do you think?
Do you intend to spend more time here, even live here, perhaps?
I don't know where we could live in Africa at the moment.
Just come from Cape Town.
That would be an amazing place to be able to base ourselves,
but with all the problems that are going on there,
I just don't see how we'd be able to really make
as much difference as we want to without the issues
and the judgement of how we would be with those surroundings.
It's a very hard place to live when you know what's going on,
but then you're slightly disconnected from it,
so the rest of our lives, especially our lives' work,
will be predominantly focused on Africa, on conservation.
There are 19 Commonwealth countries or something across this continent,
so there's a lot of things to be done, and a lot of problems here,
but there's also huge potential for solutions.
If Africa offers an escape from the pressures of public life,
that was about to end in dramatic fashion.
On the penultimate day of the tour,
Prince Harry released an official statement in which he announced
that Meghan was suing a newspaper for breach of privacy.
Alongside it, a scathing critique of the British tabloid press.
The media thought the couple had gone mad.
After such a successful tour, why blow it up like this?
But this is a couple that feel themselves on a moral mission
to challenge what they believe is wrong.
Determined, as Harry said, not to be bullied.
He would go on to launch his own legal action
against two other newspapers.
In Johannesburg, the final engagements continued as planned.
We will firmly stand up for what we believe.
We are fortunate enough to have a position
that gives us amazing opportunities,
and we will do everything that we can to play our part
in building a better world.
Ever since I came to this country as a young boy,
trying to cope with something I could never possibly describe,
Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget.
And as I raise my own son,
I want to make sure that what I've learned here,
the value of the natural world, the value of community and friendship,
is something that I can pass on to him.
Thanks everybody, bye!
It was an end to the trip full of emotion.
Harry's wider attack on the tabloid press,
a result of the tears his wife has shed
and the echoes it has of his mother.
'That final evening, I had a chance to dig a little deeper with Meghan.'
This has been quite a journey, really, one way or another.
Up in the bush,
I did talk to Harry about the pressure you're under.
It's clear, and it's clear from last night's statement
the pressure you're under.
You talked about the pain behind the brave face.
I don't think a lot of people really understand what that is.
Perhaps you could just give us an idea
of what the last year has been like. Um...
SHE SIGHS
I guess that's a "Where would you start?" question,
but give it a go.
It's...
it's, um...
hard.
Yeah. I don't think anybody could understand that,
but in all fairness, I...
..I had no idea, which probably sounds...
..difficult to understand here,
but when I, er, when I first met my now-husband,
my friends were really happy cos I was so happy,
but my British friends said to me,
"I'm sure he's great, but you shouldn't do it,
"cos the British tabloids will destroy your life."
And I very naively -
I'm American, we don't have that there -
"What are you talking about? That doesn't make any sense,
"I'm not in tabloids!" I didn't get it.
So, it's, erm...
Yeah, it's been complicated.
I talked to him up in the bush, as I said, about mental health
and the impact on his mental and physical health,
and he's obviously very concerned about protecting you
and protecting you from what he felt his mother went through.
It's obviously an area one has to tiptoe into very gently,
but I don't know what the impact on your physical and mental health
of all the pressure that you clearly feel under...?
Um...
I would say... Look, any woman, especially when they're pregnant,
you're really vulnerable,
and so that was made really challenging,
and then when you have a newborn, you know...
Mm-hmm. It's a long time ago, but I remember, yeah.
..and especially as a woman, it's really, it's a lot,
so you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom,
or trying to be a newlywed, it's, erm...
Yeah, and also thank you for asking.
Cos not many people have asked if I'm OK, but it's, er...
..it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes.
And the answer is, would it be fair to say,
not really OK? It's really been a struggle?
Yes.
Look, the pressure you're under is pretty obvious.
It's been obvious to me in a growing sense throughout this tour.
And before I started, I knew some of the picture,
but not all of it, so can you put up with this?
Can you deal with it? Can you manage it?
Can you continue with it? And what happens if you can't?
You know, I've said for a long time to H -
that's what I call him - LAUGHS
Erm... it's not enough to just survive something, right?
That's not the point of life.
You've got to thrive, you've got to feel happy,
and I think I really tried to adopt this British sensibility
of a stiff upper lip.
It has its advantages, I guess.
I tried, I really tried!
But I think that... what that does internally
is probably really damaging, um, and...
..the biggest thing that I know
is that I never thought that this would be easy,
but I thought it would be fair.
And that's the part that's really hard to reconcile.
But, um... I don't know, just take each day as it comes.
Now, the counterargument, as you know,
is, look, you have this incredible power,
you have this privilege, you have this fame,
you have this wealth, and that comes with scrutiny,
and sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad.
How do you counter that argument? If things are fair!
That completely tracks for me, if things are fair.
If I do something wrong, I'm the first one to go,
"Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry, I would never do that."
But when people are saying things that are just untrue,
and being told they're untrue,
but they're allowed to still say them,
I don't know anybody in the world that would...
..feel like that's OK.
And that's different than just scrutiny.
That's...
What would you call that?
Yeah, I don't know.
That's a different beast. It's a really different beast.
I think the grass is always greener, you've no idea.
It's really hard to understand what it's like.
I know what it SEEMS like it should be...
It's a very different thing. That's OK.
The good thing is, I've got my baby and I've got my husband,
and they're the best, so... Listen, you're tired. Thank you...
Aren't we all? It's the end of the trip.
It's time for you to go and have some peace with Archie.
Yeah, thank you!
Thank you. Thanks for being out here.
Ok. Well, it's been... fascinating.
An adventure. Safe travels back.
Thanks a lot, Meghan. Bye, see you guys.
CHEERING
The tour was, by any conventional measure,
a success.
It's really an inspiring place to be in,
and the first place for us to bring our baby.
It is hard not to find the causes and people
the couple championed inspiring.
So much hope in such slight circumstances.
'But as our eyes turned homewards,
'I found there was a great deal to reflect upon.
'Yes, this great continent may always be a part of their lives.
'But as to what the future holds more generally
'for this young family,
'well, that seems a much more open question.
'If taking it one day at a time does not prove enough,
'if this is existing, not living, what then?'
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