Prince Harry and Meghan say they didn't step back over privacy concerns

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex person said they ne'er cited privateness arsenic a crushed for stepping backmost from royal life.

Prince Harry and Meghan's planetary property caput said a "distorted narrative" had been created.

It follows suggestions from immoderate commentators that their Netflix series, which launched this week, is astatine likelihood with their reasons for leaving the UK.

The connection said this was "entirely untrue".

It said they ever intended to support up nationalist duties aft leaving the royal family.

Their determination to measurement backmost from royal beingness successful aboriginal January 2020 was announced in 2 coordinated statements from the duke and duchess and Buckingham Palace.

In their connection astatine the time, the Sussexes said: "We present program to equilibrium our clip betwixt the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our work to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patronages.

"This geographic equilibrium volition alteration america to rise our lad with an appreciation for the royal contented into which helium was born, portion besides providing our household with the abstraction to absorption connected the adjacent chapter, including the motorboat of our caller charitable entity."

At the time, 1 mentation of their determination led to commentary suggesting that property intrusion, peculiarly that affecting their then-newborn lad Archie, whitethorn person been a factor.

The mates person engaged successful abstracted ineligible battles against paper publishers, including implicit privacy, since they told respective of the UK's biggest tabloid titles they would nary longer cooperate with them.

Press intrusion is simply a taxable that runs passim the archetypal 3 episodes of the caller Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan, which is co-produced by the couple.

And since the merchandise of the episodes and 2 minute-long trailers, immoderate commentators cited successful the media person suggested they person changed their tune connected the taxable of privacy.

For example, Dickie Arbiter, a erstwhile property caput to the precocious Queen, told GB News aft watching the archetypal 3 episodes connected Thursday: "They near due to the fact that they wanted privacy.

"Well, truthful overmuch for privateness successful this documentary due to the fact that we are seeing a batch of household photographs."

Another professional responding to 1 of the trailers was quoted by a paper arsenic saying: "They've blown their ain protestations retired of the h2o and detonated their ain privateness policy."

The Sussexes' planetary property secretary, Ashley Hansen, said successful a written statement: "The Duke and Duchess person ne'er cited privateness arsenic the crushed for stepping back. This distorted communicative was intended to trap the mates into silence.

"In fact, their connection announcing their determination to measurement backmost mentions thing of privateness and reiterates their tendency to proceed their roles and nationalist duties. Any proposition different speaks to a cardinal constituent of this series.

"They are choosing to stock their story, connected their terms, and yet the tabloid media has created an wholly untrue communicative that permeates property sum and nationalist opinion. The facts are close successful beforehand of them."