Prince Harry has appeared to take aim at King Charles by claiming he has friends in Botswana who "literally brought me up".
It came during the first of three episodes in his and Meghan's eagerly-awaited explosive Netflix series, where talks about his love of Africa and the charity work he has done there.
In it, he talks about his late mother Princess Diana's charity work and how he wanted to carry his mum's "torch and try to keep her legacy alive".
Diana died when Harry was just 12 with parenting duties falling to his father Charles.
The show then cuts to an old clip of Harry in Botswana where he declares: "Botswana is a country very close to my heart. The fact that I spend more time here than at home worries my father a lot."
And in a new interview, he adds: "I've got a second family out there. A group of friends that literally brought me up.
"For me, it's always been quite special. So it was absolutely critical to share it with Meg."
However, it is not the only dig in the first three episodes of the bombshell docuseries that appears to have been made by Harry against his royal relatives.
He also claimed his relatives asked why Meghan should be "protected" from media speculation, alleging he was told it was something all royal women - including Princess Diana and Kate - have to go through.
He tells the camera that his relatives said their wives had to endure press intrusion in the early days of their relationships, so when he started dating Meghan she shouldn't expect any special treatment.
As he speaks, a montage of photographers taking snaps of his mum Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson and the then Kate Middleton plays over his voice.
Harry says: "The direction from the Palace was don’t say anything.
“But what people need to understand is, as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they had been put through as well.
“So it was almost like a rite of passage, and some of the members of the family were like ‘my wife had to go through that, so why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? Why should you get special treatment? Why should she be protected?'”
“I said ‘the difference here is the race element’.”
Harry has shared a tense relationship with his family since he quit his royal role with Meghan back in 2020.
He hit out at Charles during his interview with Oprah Winfrey, accusing his dad of cutting him off financially.
He also said his father and brother were unable to escape the royal system. He said: "Trapped within the system, like the rest of my family are. My father and my brother, they are trapped. They don’t get to leave. And I have huge compassion for that."
During the explosive interview, Harry said he was speaking to Charles but admitted "a lot had happened".
Despite the tension, Charles included his younger son in his accession speech following the Queen's death in September.
After appointing Prince William and his wife, Kate, as the Prince and Princess of Wales, he said: "I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas."
