7 things Prince Harry revealed about Princess Diana and his childhood in 'Harry & Meghan'

In the first episode of "Harry & Meghan," Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's new Netflix docuseries, Prince Harry says he doesn't remember much of his younger years with his mother, Princess Diana.

Diana died in Paris in 1997 at the age of 36 as her limousine drove away from the paparazzi.

"I don't have many early memories of my mum. It was almost like, internally, I sort of blocked them out," he said during a confessional interview in the series, which premiered December 8. "But I always remember her laugh, her cheeky laugh. Her always saying to me, 'You can get in trouble, just don't get caught.' I'll always be that cheeky person inside."

In the series, clips are shown of Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, and then-Prince Charles traveling and spending time together as a family. One video also shows Harry and William playing on a fire truck, and another shows Harry playing on a slide with William and his mother.

"My childhood, I remember, was filled with laughter, filled with happiness, and filled with adventure," Harry said during an interview in episode one of the docuseries.

In the episode, news clips show a swarm of royal fans waiting outside St Mary's Hospital in London to hear the announcement that Princess Diana had given birth to her and then-Prince Charles' second child, a boy named Harry.

"Harry & Meghan" clips also show Diana asking members of the paparazzi to leave her family alone on a 1995 ski trip and paparazzi following William and Harry around after her death, including while they were attending boarding school, where they were supposed to be left alone by the media.

"The majority of my memories are of being swarmed by paparazzi," he said. "Rarely did we have a holiday without someone with a camera jumping out of a bush or something."

In episode one, Harry addressed the scrutiny his mother faced from the media, both before and after her separation from King Charles III, then Prince Charles.

"My mom was harassed throughout her life with my dad," Harry said. "But after they separated, the harassment went to new levels."

Diana and Charles separated on December 9, 1992. In June 1994, Charles admitted to having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles during an interview with documentary filmmaker Jonathan Dimbleby, and by August 1996, Charles and Diana had officially filed for divorce after 15 years of marriage.

Harry claimed that little was done to protect his mother from the paparazzi and that media harassment became almost a "rite of passage" for women marrying into the royal family.

"The moment she divorced, the moment she left the institution, then she was by herself," Harry continued. "Yeah, she may have been one of the most influential, powerful women in the world, but she was completely exposed to this."

"I saw things, I experienced things, I learned things — the pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution," Harry said.

Harry also said that while members of the royal family were sympathetic to the scrutiny that Meghan Markle was under in the royal family, they didn't understand why she should be protected when others like Kate Middleton and Diana herself had not been granted the same measures.

"The direction from the Palace was 'Don't say anything.' But what people need to understand is, as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they had been put through as well," Harry said in episode two of "Harry & Meghan."

"It was almost like a rite of passage, and some of the members of the family were like, 'My wife had to go through that, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? Why should you get special treatment? Why should she be protected?' I said that the difference here is the race element."

"One was two grieving sons wanting to cry, grieve, and process that grief because of losing our mum," Harry said. "And two was the royal hat: Show no emotion, get out there, meet the people, shake the hands."

"The UK literally swept me and William up as their children. An expectation to see myself and William out and about was really hard for the two of us," he continued.

After Harry became the subject of negative headlines during his school days at Eton College, he said that "not every story was false, but there was a lot of exaggeration and rehashing."

Stories claiming 17-year-old Harry was taking drugs, partying, and dating around soon cast an image of Harry as the "bad boy" of the royal family.

"You know, there's a difference between having to accept, OK, we have this position in this family and therefore there's going to be a level of interest, and being swarmed by paparazzi, chasing you in cars through red lights," he said.

"And then chasing you down the road on foot, which is what happened probably about 30 or 40 times when I was younger," he continued. "It was too much."

The series highlighted an incident in 2004 when Harry scuffled with a photographer after leaving a nightclub in London's West End. According to the photographer, Harry exited his car, "lunged towards [him] as [he] was still taking pictures," and was repeatedly saying, "Why are you doing this? Why don't you just leave me alone?"