Prince Harry revealed he's seen 'The Crown' and fact-checks the episodes

• While on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," Prince Harry confirmed he's watched "The Crown."
• Harry also revealed he "fact-checks" the show and has seen both older seasons and recent episodes.

Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" is full of major bombshells and jaw-dropping moments involving the royal family.

The pages are packed with the kind of drama we've come to expect from "The Crown," Netflix's fictional dramatization of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

Harry confirmed on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" that he's recently watched the series. The fifth season of "The Crown," which was released in November, explores King Charles' affair with Camilla and the end of his marriage to Princess Diana.

At the very end of Harry's interview on Tuesday, after a couple of tequila drinks, Colbert couldn't resist asking the Duke of Sussex if he'd ever seen the show.

"Yes, I have actually watched 'The Crown," Harry said. "The older stuff and the more recent stuff."

"Do you fact-check it while you watch?" Colbert asked.

"Yes I do actually," Harry said with a laugh. "Another reason why it's so important that history has it right," he added, pointing at a copy of his memoir on Colbert's desk.

Harry's memoir was only released on Tuesday, but he's been in the headlines for the last week after leaked excerpts were published in the British tabloids.

When Colbert asked Harry if he believed there was an "active campaign by your family to undermine this book," he agreed but said it was mainly one by the UK press.

"They've told their side of the story, this is the other side of the story," Harry said.

Harry also addressed claims that he boasted about killing 25 people in Afghanistan in the book, which he said was a "dangerous lie" pushed out by the British press.

"It's really troubling and very disturbing they can get away with it, they had the context," Harry told Colbert. "My words are not dangerous, but the spin of my words are very dangerous, and that's a choice they've made."

Harry told Colbert he's felt the strong presence of his mother in the last couple days, and said it didn't go unnoticed to him that he left the British royal family when he was 36 — the same age Diana was when she died.

Harry discussed with Colbert how, for much of his youth, he thought his mother was still alive and "hiding, plotting, and planning to take me and William away."

"This fantasy of what you thought your mother did, is what you did," Colbert replied.

"Not before trying to make it work," Harry said. "Believe me, we tried."