The Duke of Sussex said during an interview with US podcast, Armchair Expert: “In the US I feel different, I can lift my head, my shoulders have dropped, so have hers. During the interview, Harry also recalled Meghan’s experience of living as a “princess”. Harry said: “Meghan told me: ‘You don’t need to be a princess, you can create a life better than any princess’, that was coming from her lived experience.

“Meghan expected to have a private life and that was why she was shocked at being a royal.”

Harry also spoke of keeping his relationship with Meghan secret at first in London.

He said: “The first time I met up with meghan, for her to come stay with me, we met up in a supermarket in London, pretending we didnt know each other, texting from the other end of the supermarket.

“People were coming up to me, giving me weird looks and I was texting her saying ‘is this the right one?’ And she would say no you want parchment paper.”

The couple, who now live in California after they left Britain and stepped away from their royal duties last year, asked for vaccine donations earlier this month to help provide COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable.

Separately, Harry and Meghan have also previously signed deals to deliver programming to Netflix Inc and produce and host podcasts for Spotify.

They were in the news in March following a tell-all interview with U.S. chat show host Oprah Winfrey, with whom Harry is also working on a documentary series about mental health for the Apple TV+ streaming service.

The Duke of Sussex has been opening up about his “mental health journeys and struggles” in his long-awaited documentary series about the issue with Oprah Winfrey.

Harry suffered the trauma of losing his mother aged just 12 and has spoken about spending nearly two decades “not thinking” about her death before eventually getting help after a period of “total chaos”.

In a statement to mark the launch of the series, The Me You Can’t See, the duke said: “We are born into different lives, brought up in different environments, and as a result are exposed to different experiences.

“But our shared experience is that we are all human.

“The majority of us carry some form of unresolved trauma, loss or grief, which feels, and is, very personal.

“Yet the last year has shown us that we are all in this together, and my hope is that this series will show there is power in vulnerability, connection in empathy, and strength in honesty.”

Harry and Ms Winfrey are co-creators and executive producers of the project for Apple, which a few years ago launched into the TV streaming market to take on Netflix and Amazon, and will premiere on May 21 on Apple TV+.

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