10 details you may have missed in Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Netflix docuseries

The first half of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's six-episode Netflix docuseries was released on Thursday. Each episode provided an intimate glimpse into the couple's love story as well as details about their decision to step back from royal life in January 2020.

Representatives for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace, and Netflix did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Amid all the revelations, here are 10 things you may have missed while watching "Harry & Meghan" on Netflix.

Many of Harry and Meghan's friends appear in the docuseries, including Lucy Fraser, Abigail Spencer, and Jill Smoller.

They all referred to Harry as "H" when speaking about the couple, as did Meghan.

Harry also calls Meghan "M" in episode one.

The couple also call each other "Haz" and "Meg," which were the nicknames they listed on their wedding reception invitations at Frogmore House, which they shared a photo of in episode three.

In episode one, Harry and Meghan revealed they initially met on Instagram.

Harry said he saw a photo of Meghan with a dog filter on their mutual friend's page, which led him to ask who she was.

When their friend told Meghan the prince had been asking about her, she asked to see his Instagram page.

The series then showed screenshots of different posts from Harry's account, which is not public. The username had also been removed from the screenshots.

The posts included in the docuseries were primarily nature photos of Harry's trips to Africa, including a shot of him with a rhinoceros.

In episode one, Meghan shared that in the summer of 2016, Harry invited her to come to Botswana with him for a week in place of a traditional third date, as their schedules didn't allow for other time together.

"I was astonished that she said yes," Harry said. "This woman that I've only met twice. She's coming to Botswana and we're going to be living in a tent for five days. Wow."

The pair slept in a tent throughout the trip, and Meghan said there was no bathroom in the wilderness where they stayed.

Meghan shared she was apprehensive before the trip, as she feared she and Harry may not like each other as they spent more time together. They also hadn't seen each other in a month before the trip, as she said in the series.

"Like, what if we don't like each other and then we're stuck in the middle of the bush in a tent?" she said.

Harry said they were nervous at the start of the trip, but they quickly felt at ease with each other. "It just felt so right and felt so normal," he said.

"We could both just be completely ourselves," Meghan agreed. "Thankfully, we really liked each other."

Meghan shared that it was hard dealing with a torrent of UK tabloid reporters after news broke that she and Harry were dating.

The "Suits" star said she remembered getting flowers in Toronto when she saw nine or 10 paparazzi standing in the middle of the street. Meghan recalled them saying, "Hey, how are you doing Meghan?" as they snapped her photo. She replied, "Oh, thanks! Stay warm, guys!"

The next day, Prince Harry called her and said "you can't talk to them."

"And I was like, 'I'm just trying to be pleasant. I don't know what to do, I've never dealt with this before,'" Meghan recalled. "He says, 'Right, but the UK media are saying you love it.'"

Meghan said it felt like "all of the UK media" descended upon Toronto. She said reporters had paid certain neighbors to set up live-stream cameras that looked into her backyard.

Prince Harry said that he wanted to propose to Meghan Markle earlier than November 2017 but he had to wait.

"I had to ask permission from my grandmother," he said during the second episode of the docuseries. "I couldn't do it outside the UK."

Harry proposed in the north garden of Kensington Palace, which he lit up with 15 electric candles.

"He's down on one knee and I was just like, 'Yes!' I was so joyful and excited," Meghan said. "I was like 'Ah, we're doing this.'"

"From my perspective, I fell head over heels in love with her because my heart told me that she was the one that I was gonna spend the rest of my life with," Harry said. "When it came to Meghan, that was, I guess, the case of finding a needle in a haystack."

Harry accidentally gave away his surprise proposal when he popped a bottle of Champagne while Meghan was making dinner at their cottage.

In episode two of the docuseries, Harry and Meghan recalled the night he got down on one knee.

"I did pop a bottle of Champagne while she was greasing the chicken, and that kind of slightly gave the game away," Harry said. "She was like, 'You don't drink Champagne, what's the occasion?' I was like, 'I don't know. Just had it laying around here, whatever.'"

"It was a magnum," Meghan recalled with a laugh.

Harry and Meghan announced their engagement on November 27, 2017.

But, in episode one of the docuseries, they said they had been engaged for a few weeks by the time the news went public.

Before they shared the news with the world, Meghan and Harry told their loved ones about the engagement.

"They were gonna keep [their engagement] quiet because it was gonna be announced a few weeks later," the couple's friend Lucy Fraser said. "We had a little engagement party, and everyone was dressed in animal onesies."

Fraser went on to say that Harry and Meghan wore matching penguin onesies "because penguins mate for life."

"They were so sweet," Fraser said. "And we had so much fun."

Clips of Meghan and Harry's children, Lili and Archie, appear throughout the series.

Episode two includes a video of a conversation between Archie, who was born in the UK on May 6, 2019, and his parents as they look at a hummingbird. And it turns out, Archie has an American accent like his mother.

"I've got a dirty foot, mama," Archie said in the video. "Because I was with you."

"I've got a dirty foot," he repeated, ignoring the hummingbird flying around them.

Archie moved to the US in 2020, when he was 1.

In episode one, Prince Harry opened up about the stress he said paparazzi attention brought to his life, particularly when he was a teenager.

He said there were between 30 to 40 occasions when the paparazzi chased him on foot when he was young.

"It was too much," he said. After showing photos of an altercation between Harry and a photographer, the episode cut to a clip of Harry sitting at a desk in what appeared to be his bedroom at Eton. He wore an Eton uniform in the shot, and a framed picture of Princess Diana sat on the desk.