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BATTLE ROYAL: We hired comic pros to tell the story of exactly how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle fell out with the royal family

Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams
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An illustration of the Royal Family sitting for a photograph at Harry and Meghan's wedding
Josh Adams

On March 7, Oprah Winfrey's interview of Prince Harry and his wife, Duchess Meghan Markle, dropped. It was a bombshell, one that sent the royal family into crisis mode. It shone a whole new light on the source of the strife between the Sussexes and the Windsors. 

Why did the family fall out? Why did Harry and Markle flee with their child to America? What really happened that broke up the most famous family in the world?

Here are the two sides of that story.

Page one of the story, in which Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are wed. Over the course of the page, the interview with Oprah is revisited, showing that things with the Royal Family have not gone well.
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Page two of the story. The rumor that Meghan made Kate cry is shown, followed by the revelation on Oprah that Meghan contends it was actually the other way around.
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Harry meditates on the role his father and his brother must play, and how he did not want that for his children.
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The allegation that a member of the family speculated on how dark Archie's skin would be is shown. The divisions in the relationship of the family are shown, but Harry said he still talks to his grandmother often.
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The relationship between the media and the monarchy is questioned by Meghan. The invisible contract, which gives royals favorable treatment in tabloids in exchange for access, is critiqued. The possibility that the rifts can be mended is floated.
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