Meghan Markle said in a viral social media clip that people were “angry with her” because Prince Harry changed after their relationship.

The Duchess of Sussex told her December 2022 Netflix show Harry & Meghan “most people need to find someone to blame” but argued the prince was already “on his own path.”

A clip of the moment has gone viral on TikTok and has been liked 8,600 times and viewed 240,000 times.

Prince Harry and Meghan's Netflix Interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle give a joint interview for their original Netflix biopic ‘Harry and Meghan,’ released in December 2022. Duke and Duchess of Sussex/Netflix

What Meghan Markle Said on Netflix

Meghan said: “In any relationship, oftentimes, when a guy falls in love with a girl, his buddies are like ‘Oh my God, he changed I don’t see him anymore. He’s always with her.’ And you blame the girl. They’re angry with her, because she’s the thing that took him away.

“And that’s whether you’re in a small town or a big city or in the royal family. He wouldn’t ever have been attracted to or interested in me if he hadn’t already been on his own path.”

Meghan’s comments in Episode 5 were positioned as the couple were packing their bags at Frogmore Cottage in preparation for relocating to America in 2020.

“Most people need to find someone to blame to try to, like, reconcile how you’re feeling because something’s changed and it doesn’t feel good and you don’t like it and what’s the thing that’s different,” Meghan said. “‘Well, it all changed when you got here. So it’s your fault.'”

“But you blame me… because also if you can blame me then you have no fault. So that last week, it was bitter sweet,” she said, in reference to their last week in London in March 2020.

“I thought, the public, if they’ve been fed these lies for two years what do they think of me? They must hate us…no, the people were just so embracing. They were sad that we were leaving. We were sad that we were leaving.”

Wider Context

It is not clear if Meghan was talking about Harry’s friends or his family. There have been stories in the past suggesting tension between Meghan and Harry’s friends over politically incorrect jokes.

Biographer Tom Bower wrote in his Meghan and Harry book Revenge about a shooting weekend at Sandringham with 16 friends: “All of them were employed by international banks and auction houses or were estate owners and racehorse trainers. All were bonded by common assumptions, principles and loyalties.

“Like other shooting weekends, Harry was looking forward to endless banter, jokes—and a lot of drinking. He had not anticipated Meghan’s reaction.

“Their jokes involving sexism, feminism and transgender people ricocheted around the living-rooms and dining rooms. Without hesitation, Meghan challenged every guest whose conversation contravened her values.

“According to Harry’s friends, again and again she reprimanded them about the slightest inappropriate nuance. Nobody was exempt.”

However, the positioning of the quotes during a chunk of the episode set in March 2020 would suggest a more royal angle.

Whatever reservations Harry’s friends might have had, by then it was the palace that Harry was crashing out of.

That January, Harry at down with Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and Prince William at the “Sandringham Summit,” a crisis meeting in which they thrashed out the terms of the royal exit.

Jack Royston is chief royal correspondent for Newsweek, based in London. You can find him on X, formerly Twitter, at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek’s The Royals Facebook page.

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