Prince Harry, Meghan Markle's rep denies couple asked for 'privacy': 'Distorted narrative' - Fox News

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are pushing backmost against disapproval of their caller Netflix docuseries, "Harry & Meghan."

Per People magazine, it was wide speculated the mates stepped distant from their nationalist royal duties successful January 2020 with a tendency for much privacy. Now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's planetary property caput is issuing a statement, stating that it isn't true. 

"The Duke and Duchess person ne'er cited privateness arsenic the crushed for stepping back," the connection fixed to the outlet said.

"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.

PRINCE HARRY, MEGHAN MARKLE SHARE INTIMATE DETAILS OF THEIR FIRST ENCOUNTERS IN 'HARRY & MEGHAN' DOCUSERIES

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are pushing backmost against disapproval of their caller Netflix docuseries "Harry and Meghan." (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

"They are choosing to stock their story, connected their ain 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."

Harry and Meghan's connection comes a time aft the archetypal 3 episodes of the two-part docuseries were released connected Netflix. Volume II is acceptable to driblet Dec. 15.

In their January 2020 connection connected their departure, Harry, 38, and Meghan, 41, announced they would beryllium taking "a measurement back" arsenic elder members of the royal family and alternatively moving independently, splitting their clip betwixt the United Kingdom and North America.

"We person chosen to marque a modulation this twelvemonth successful starting to carve retired a progressive caller relation wrong this institution," the mates shared connected Instagram astatine the time. "We mean to measurement backmost arsenic ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and enactment to go financially independent, portion continuing to afloat enactment Her Majesty The Queen. It is with your encouragement, peculiarly implicit the past fewer years, that we consciousness prepared to marque this adjustment.

"We present program to equilibrium our clip betwixt the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to grant our work to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages," they continued. "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."

They are parents to 3-year-old lad Archie and girl Lilibet, 1, who was calved successful June 2021 aft their determination to the United States.

In their statement, the Sussexes added that they planned to proceed moving with the queen arsenic good arsenic Harry's member Prince William, 40, and begetter King Charles III, 74, who was formerly the Prince of Wales earlier ascending to the throne pursuing Elizabeth II's decease successful September.

"We look guardant to sharing the afloat details of this breathtaking adjacent measurement successful owed course, arsenic we proceed to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge and each applicable parties. Until then, delight judge our deepest acknowledgment for your continued support."

Soon after, Queen Elizabeth II issued a statement, saying: "Today my household had precise constructive discussions connected the aboriginal of my grandson and his family. My household and I are wholly supportive of Harry and Meghan’s tendency to make a caller beingness arsenic a young family. Although we would person preferred them to stay full-time moving Members of the Royal Family, we respect and recognize their privation to unrecorded a much autarkic beingness arsenic a household portion remaining a valued portion of my family."

The couple's typical claimed they "never cited privacy" erstwhile they stepped distant from their royal roles successful January 2020. (Netflix)

The archetypal occurrence of "Harry and Meghan" began with a enactment stating that members of the royal household "declined to comment" connected the contented successful the series. The royal household has yet to talk retired pursuing the merchandise of the archetypal 3 episodes.

In Volume I of the series, Harry and Meghan shared intimate details of the aboriginal stages of their relationship. Harry besides opened up astir his narration with his mother, the precocious Princess Diana, and however helium remembers his puerility being "swarmed with paparazzi." 

Harry shared that Diana was "deceived" into giving the well-known Panorama interrogation successful which she shared her acquisition arsenic being a subordinate of the royal family. Harry said his parent was "harassed" portion being joined to Charles, but it lone got worse erstwhile they separated.

"This distorted communicative was intended to trap the mates into silence," a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said successful a statement. (Netflix)

"Don't react. Don't provender into it," Harry said was the proposal helium was fixed arsenic a kid astir however to grip the paparazzi. 

The Duke of Sussex mentioned that the attraction his precocious parent received was akin to what his woman was facing with the media.

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Harry said helium was alert determination are galore radical who bash not hold with however helium stepped distant from royal responsibilities but emphasized helium was "trying to protect" his family.

The archetypal 3 episodes of the docuseries were released connected Netflix Dec. 8. (Netflix)

Prior to announcing their departure successful 2020, the mates had complained of intrusive media sum and accused immoderate British media commentators of racism. Harry and Meghan besides slammed the country’s long-standing arrangements for royal media coverage, saying they similar to pass straight with the nationalist done societal media.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's rep for comment. 

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Fox News Digital's Stephanie Nolasco, Janelle Ash and The Associated Press contributed to this report.