Prince Harry said Princess Diana would confront the paparazzi in efforts to protect him and Prince William

• Prince Harry said Princess Diana used to confront the paparazzi to protect him and Prince William.
• A "Harry & Meghan" clip shows Diana asking paparazzi to leave her family alone on a 1995 ski trip.

Prince Harry said his mother, Princess Diana, would often confront the paparazzi to protect him and his brother, Prince William, when they were children.

"My mom did such a good job in trying to protect us," Prince Harry said in the first episode of his docuseries, "Harry & Meghan," which premiered on Netflix Thursday.

"She took it upon herself to basically confront these people," he continued.

Video footage from a 1995 ski trip to Switzerland shared during the episode shows Princess Diana approaching the paparazzi who were circling her family while they were trying to eat.

Earlier in the episode, a news segment also showed that Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie — Prince Andrew's daughters — joined them on the trip and posed with the boys for a planned photo call arranged by the palace.

"Paparazzi used to harass us to the point of where we had to be forced into smiling and answering questions to the traveling press pack," Prince Harry said in a confessional.

"And that made me feel really uncomfortable from the get-go," Prince Harry said, adding that they had a deal with the paparazzi to leave them alone after the planned photoshoot, which some photographers did not follow.

"It was never fair and it never worked," he said.

Once the shoot ended, the ski trip footage shows some of the paparazzi would not leave the royals alone.

"Please leave," Princess Diana is heard saying to a photographer in the clip. "As a parent, could I ask you to respect my children's space?" she says while pressing her hands up against the video camera's lens in an attempt to shield the camera operator from getting more footage.

"I brought the children out here for a holiday and we'd really appreciate the space," Diana adds.

The man behind the camera initially agrees before asking Diana if he could take a posed photo of her family, and "then we can totally leave you alone."

"No, we've had 15 cameras following us today," she says. "As a parent, I want to protect the children. Thank you." Diana then walks away.

Prince Harry said he guessed that because of the trauma Princess Diana faced from the paparazzi herself, she wanted to protect her kids from the same experiences and wanted to talk about her own.