Everything Prince Harry said about Prince William in Netflix's 'Harry & Meghan'

Princess Diana was killed during a car accident in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997. She was grieved around the world, and the news forced Prince Harry and Prince William into the spotlight at a time when they were most vulnerable.

"When my mum died, we had two hats to wear," Prince Harry said during the first episode of "Harry & Meghan."

"One was two grieving sons wanting to cry, grieve, and process that grief because of losing our mum," he continued. "And one was the royal hat. Show no emotion, get out there, meet people, shake the hands. The UK literally swept me and William up as their children. An expectation to see me and William out and about was really hard for the two of us."

Harry spoke about the expectation that he'd have a public wedding, referencing Prince William's 2011 nuptials to Kate Middleton in the process.

"There was an expectation, right? Diana's boy," Harry said, pointing to himself.

"There was an expectation to have a public wedding. It was like, 'Mission complete with William. Now, let's see if this goes the distance with Harry and then we can actually go, 'Job done,'" he added.

In episode four, Harry and Meghan discussed the success of their 2018 Australian tour and the public and press' love of Meghan.

Harry said Meghan's popularity was becoming an issue, alluding to the fact that she was overshadowing other royals like the Queen, Charles, and William.

"The issue is when someone who's marrying in, who should be a supporting, a supporting act, is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who is born to do this," Harry said. "That upsets people. It shifts the balance."

William is first in line for the British throne as King Charles' eldest son.

"Because you've been led to believe that the only way that your charities can succeed and the only way that your reputation can be grown or improved is if you're on the front page of those newspapers," Harry added.

Harry detailed the royal family's relationship with the media in episode four, explaining that different offices in the institution would work against each other to protect their "principles," as Harry said.

He said he knew that behind the royal curtain there were "just constant briefings about other members of the family, about favors, inviting the press in," adding that "it's a dirty game."

"You know, there's leaking, but there's also planting of stories," Harry said. "So if the comms team want to be able to remove a negative story about their principle, they will trade and give you something about someone else's principle," he said. "So the offices end up working against each other."

Because they had a front-row view of how the behind-the-scenes trading played out for Charles, Harry said he and William made a pact to run things differently.

"William and I both saw what happened in our dad's office, and we made an agreement that we would never let that happen to our office," Harry said of himself and his brother.

Based on the stories about Meghan appearing in the tabloids, Harry said it became clear to him William's office was trading stories about him and his wife.

"I would far rather get destroyed in the press than play along with this game or this business of trading," Harry said.

"And to see my brother's office copy the very same thing that we promised the two of us would never ever do, that was heartbreaking," he went on to say.

In episode five, Prince Harry discussed what went on during the January 2020 crisis talks at Sandringham House, one of the royal residences, after he and Meghan Markle announced they were stepping back from the royal family.

Prince Harry said the meeting — which also included their father and the Queen — was to discuss his and Meghan's future role. But it did little to resolve the family's issues.

"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren't true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and take it all in," Harry said.

"I mean the saddest part of it was this wedge created between myself and my brother so that he's now on the institution's side," Prince Harry said. "And part of that, I get. I understand, right? That's his inheritance."

He continued: "So, to some extent, it's already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and the continuation of this institution."

On the day of the crisis talks at Sandringham, The Times of London reported that Prince Harry and Meghan had partly decided to step back from the royal family because William had bullied them out.

A joint statement from Kensington Place was then released, in Prince William and Prince Harry's name, squashing the claims and calling the report "false, offensive, and potentially harmful."

But Prince Harry said no one told him about the statement until after it was already released.

"I couldn't believe it," Harry said. "No one had asked me permission to put my name to a statement like that."

Prince Harry said Meghan "burst into floods of tears" when he told her about the statement.

"Within four hours they were happy to lie to protect my brother, and yet for three years they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us," Harry said.

"Suddenly what clicked in my head was, 'It's never going to stop,'" Meghan added. "Every rumor, every negative thing, every lie, everything I knew wasn't true and the palace knew wasn't true, it was just being allowed to fester."

Harry said that's when he and Meghan knew what they had to do.

"There was no other option at this point," he continued. "I said, 'We need to get out of here.'"

Following their March 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Prince William apparently sent Prince Harry a text message, and the crew for "Harry & Meghan" caught the moment he received the text.

In the 2021 interview, Harry and Meghan said members of the royal family made racist remarks about Archie, the institution disregarded Meghan's mental-health issues, Kate made Meghan cry during the week of her wedding, and Charles cut the couple off financially following their step back.

In the clip, Harry showed Meghan the text with his arm outstretched. The couple didn't share what was in the message.

"I wish I knew what to do," Harry said after showing Meghan the message, looking visibly upset.

Harry returned to the UK for Prince Philip's funeral in April 2021, which reunited him with his family.

He said it was difficult to see his brother and father given how recently the interview with Winfrey had aired.

"It was hard," Harry said. "Especially spending time, having chats with my brother and my father, who just, you know, were very much, um, focused on the same misinterpretation of the whole situation."

"None of us really wanted to have to talk about it at my grandfather's funeral, but we did," Harry said. "I've had to make peace with the fact that we're probably never gonna get genuine accountability or a genuine apology."

Meghan Markle sued the Mail on Sunday's parent company, Associated Newspapers, for publishing a letter she wrote her father, Thomas Markle, ahead of her wedding.

Meghan won the initial case, but the Associated Press appealed. During the appeal, Jason Knauf — the communications director William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan shared — voluntarily provided a witness statement that included a text message Meghan sent him regarding a draft of the letter.

In the message, Meghan wrote that she knew there was a possibility the texts could be leaked and asked for Knauf's input, which the Associated Press' legal team tried to use as evidence Meghan expected the letter to become public.

In episode six of "Harry & Meghan," the Sussexes' lawyer, Jenny Afia, said, "Sadly, there's just no way he could have done that without the authority of his bosses," implying Knauf had William's permission to go to the court.

Harry, Meghan, and one of their friends also discussed Knauf's witness statement in a scene of the episode.

"He works for his brother," their friend Mandana Dayani said, voicing frustration that tabloids presented Knauf as Harry and Meghan's former aide instead of William and Kate's employee.

"But that — I know. Like, that," Meghan said, throwing her hands up. "It's your brother. I'm not gonna say anything about your brother, but it's so obvious."

"It's even more obvious that they'll try to cover that up," Harry agreed. "Again, 'Jason, the former aide of Meghan and Harry,' as opposed to ..."

"That's what I keep saying! Why are we talking about him as her former aide and not as the person who works for your brother?" Dayani replied.

"That's why I'm now living in a different country," Harry responded. "Because all the comms teams basically, like, try to outdo each other, but this is the contract. The symbiotic relationship between the two institutions working the best that they can."

Meghan ultimately won the appeal in December 2021.

The episode included a statement from Knauf's lawyer regarding his witness statement being voluntary: "These claims are entirely false. Mr. Knauf was asked to provide evidence by both the Duchess of Sussex and Associate Newspapers. He was advised by counsel that evidence in his possession could be relevant and he then provided this directly to the court, staying neutral in the process."

Another screen card included a statement from Meghan's lawyer on the matter: "The legal team for Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, disputes this claim. Mr. Knauf was not asked to provide a witness statement by the duchess or her team," the statement read. "Nor do her attorneys believe Mr. Knauf remained 'neutral' by submitting a witness statement relied on by Associated Newspapers whilst working for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge."

Representatives for Kensington Palace did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.