Prince Harry claims he was 'terrified' when Prince William 'screamed and shouted' at him during crisis talks

Prince Harry found it "terrifying" when his brother, Prince William "screamed and shouted" at him during a meeting over his royal future.

The Duke of Sussex told how he sat down with senior members of his family, including his sibling, their father, King Charles - who was still the Prince of Wales at the time - and grandmother Queen Elizabeth early in 2020 to discuss his and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's plan to step down from official duties, but claimed his brother couldn't hide his anger, while his dad said things "that simply weren't true".

Speaking in the fifth episode of his Netflix docuseries Harry and Meghan - which was released last night - Harry said: "It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and have my father say things that simply weren't true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in."

Meghan, 41, claimed she wasn't even invited to the meeting.

She said: "Imagine a conversation, a round-table discussion about the future of your life when the stakes were this high and you as the mum and the wife and the target in many regards aren't invited to have a seat."

Her 38-year-old spouse insisted it was "clear" his family had planned the summit without her, and he eventually left "without any solidified action plan" because his proposal was instantly dismissed.

He said: "I went in with the same proposal that we had already made publicly.

"But, once I got there, I was given five options. One being all in, no change. Five being all out.

"I chose option three in the meeting, half in, half out. Have our own jobs but also work in support of the Queen.

"But it became very clear very quickly that that goal was not up for discussion or debate."

Harry - who has Archie, three, and 18-month-old Lili with Meghan - felt the meeting created a "wedge" in his previous close relationship with William.

He said: "It created this wedge between myself and my brother.

"He's now on the institution's side. And part of that I get, I understand.

"That's his inheritance so to some extent it's already ingrained in him that part of his responsibility is the survivability and the continuation of the institution."

"I think from their perspective, they had to believe that it was more about us and the issues we had as opposed to their partner and the media and that relationship that was causing so much pain for us.

"They saw what they wanted to see."

And Harry insisted he didn't blame the queen - who died in September - for how things turned out.

He said: "You have to understand from a family perspective, especially hers, there are ways of doing things and her ultimate mission slash responsibility is the institution.

"People around her are telling her, 'by the way, that proposal or these two doing XYZ is doing to be seen as an attack on the institution' so she is going to go on the advice that she's given."

And Harry was particularly infuriated when Buckingham Palace put out a statement afterward dismissing speculation of a rift between the two brothers, insisting he never saw it before it was made public, despite it being signed by both him and William.

He said: "That day, a story came out that part of the reason why Meghan and I were leaving was because William had bullied us out.

"And once I got in the car after the meeting, I was told about a joint statement that had been put out in my name and my brother's name squashing the story about him bullying us out of the family.

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

"I rang M and I told her and she burst into floods of tears because 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."

Meanwhile, Prince Harry also claims he was "blocked" from spending time with Queen Elizabeth.

The Duke of Sussex explained he and the Duchess of Sussex, knew late in 2019 they wanted to start a new life overseas and his grandmother was aware of their struggles and invited them to stay and discuss the matter.

He said: "I spoke to my grandmother as well and I would love to drive up and see you. She knew that we were finding things hard, I had spoken to her many times about it.

"She said she had no plans for the week and said 'Why don't you come up and have tea, stay the night, you and Meghan'."

However, the couple claimed that as they were boarding a plane back to London from Canada, where they had been staying, they received a message from an aide saying the visit was off because the queen had plans all week.

Harry was then shown saying: "Wow. Well, that's the opposite of what she told me."

The prince then told how he spoke to the queen again and she said: "Yes, I didn't know I was busy, I'm told that I'm busy, I've actually been told I'm busy all week."

He added: "I was like, wow."

Meghan added: "I remember looking at H and thinking 'My gosh. This is when a family and a family business are in direct conflict because they're blocking you from seeing the Queen, but what they're really doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother."

Harry also claimed he and Meghan had offered to give up their royal titles if their original plan to move to New Zealand or South Africa to continue work for the Commonwealth failed to work out.

Detailing a message he sent to his father King Charles - who was still Prince of Wales at the time - he said: "In one of those I said that if it didn't work out we would be willing to relinquish our Sussex titles if need be. That was the plan."

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was branded a "foreign organism" when she joined the royal family.

The former Suits actress - who was known as Meghan Markle before she married Prince Harry in 2018 - claimed her presence in the institution was likened to a disruptive force that no one else understood.

Speaking in the fourth episode of the Netflix documentary series Harry and Meghan, she said: "There was this moment where our private secretary, she worked with the Queen for almost 20 years I think, and what she said to me was it's like this [wave motion] fish swimming perfectly, powerful, it's on the right current, and then one day this organism comes in.

"This foreign organism and the entire thing goes, 'What is that? What is it doing here? It doesn't look like us, it doesn't move like us. We don't like it, get it off of us'."

Meghan also spoke about being “excited” to have the big family she never had when she became pregnant with her son Archie, now three, and her disappointment when the “bubble burst”.

She said: "I was just so excited that we were going to be able to create for him that thing that I had always wanted.

"So I just did everything I could to make them proud and to really be a part of the family. And then the bubble burst."

Meanwhile, Harry - who also has 18-month-old Lili with Meghan - thinks other members of the royal family resented his wife's popularity when she joined The Firm and felt she was "stealing the limelight" by "doing the job better".

In the documentary, the 38-year-old prince said: "The issue is when someone who's marrying in should be a supporting act is then stealing the limelight or is doing the job better than the person who was born to do this. That upsets people. It shifts the balance".

- Bang! Showbiz