Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been embroiled in split rumours for months now with sources close to the former royal couple revealing that the Sussexes have ‘blazing rows’.
Even the Duke of Sussex has admitted that the couple first started arguing in the very early days of their relationship, recalling a fight so fiery in his memoir Spare that he revealed Meghan walked out of the room for fifteen minutes.
The 40-year-old also confessed that he had been left feeling very angry and had to seek out ‘therapy’ to work on his emotions.
Opening up about their challenging moments as a couple in Spare, he reminisced on a date they had in December 2016, just five months after meeting, when things went horribly wrong.
Harry detailed they had been roasting a chicken while drinking wine and listening to James Taylor and Nina Simone when he suddenly “snapped” at Meghan for seemingly no reason.
He reflected on this moment, writing: “Maybe the wine went to my head. Maybe the weeks of battling the press had worn me down.
“For some reason, when the conversation took an unexpected turn, I became touchy. Then angry. Disproportionately, sloppily angry.”
He continued: “Meg said something I took the wrong way. It was partly a cultural difference, partly a language barrier, but I was also just over-sensitive that night. I thought: Why’s she having a go at me? I snapped at her, spoke to her harshly, cruelly.”
The father-of-two realised he had made a huge mistake when Meghan left the room for 15 minutes and didn’t return. When he finally went to find her, she was sitting on the bed and told him: “[I] would never stand for being spoken to like that.”
The former Suits actress questioned where Harry’s anger had come from and what sparked his reaction as she asked: “Where did you ever hear a man speak like that to a woman?” Did you overhear adults speak that way when you were growing up? “
Harry wrote: “I cleared my throat, looked away. Yes.”
He confessed that his future wife had been very firm with him, as he penned: “She wasn’t going to tolerate that kind of partner. Or co-parent. That kind of life. She wasn’t going to raise children in an atmosphere of anger or disrespect.”
According to the prince, their disagreement caused him to seek out therapy to help him overcome the anger he felt.
He said: “It came from somewhere deep inside, somewhere that needed to be excavated, and it was obvious that I could use some help with the job.”
Harry and Meghan later went on to tie the knot in May 2018 at a fairytale like ceremony at Windsor Castle and have welcomed two children together, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
They now reside in Montecito, California after stepping down from the Royal Family in 2020 and moving to the US to start a new life and while they still have their fair share of problems – mostly down to their own controversial business moves – it’s believed that arguing between themselves is no longer one of them.
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