The word "Meggitt" can officially be put to sleep. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step down as senior members of the royal family in 2020, it was Meghan who took the blame. While the British tabloids began putting "Megxit" (a play on Brexit) on their front pages, Harry set the record straight about who was responsible for his departure in the second volume of his groundbreaking Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan.

In Episode 5, Harry opened up about his and his wife's shocking decision and how he was actually the one who ultimately decided to leave his family. Harry cites a cartoon in which Meghan is depicted as a dog with a leash and says, "How predictable that a woman is blamed for a couple's decision." In fact, it was my decision. She didn't say she wanted to leave. I had to see for myself. But this is misogyny at its finest."

Harry himself has previously admitted to being uncomfortable with media scrutiny of his family from an early age. He was often harassed by the paparazzi, to the point where he had to smile and answer questions for the traveling press. So I felt really uncomfortable from the beginning."

Journalist Bryony Gordon suspects that Harry wanted to leave the royal family as early as his prep school days, but could not leave. Until he met Meghan. To the free-spirited Meghan, he not only met his match, but also became the catalyst for a process that began at an early age," Gordon wrote in The Telegraph.

As noted in Harry & Meghan, when news of the Sussex family's departure from the royal family broke, the British press went wild, and it had a profound effect on Meghan. Meghan says of the negative press coverage following her abdication, "It felt like it took everything away from me. My sense of self, my confidence. The truth didn't matter. Clickbait made it so."