The royal family wanted Meghan Markle to keep acting after marrying Prince Harry to support them financially

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The royal family wanted Meghan Markle to keep acting after marrying Prince Harry to support them financially
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle speaking to Oprah Winfrey.CBS
  • The royal family wanted Meghan Markle to keep acting to support them financially, Prince Harry said.
  • "My family were suggesting that she carries on acting, because there was not enough money," he said.
  • Harry made the comments in his and Markle's tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.
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The royal family wanted Meghan Markle to carry on acting after marrying Prince Harry so she could support them financially, the Duke of Sussex said.

Harry was speaking to Oprah Winfrey in the tell-all interview which aired on CBS in the US on Sunday.

Markle, who was best known as an actor for her role as Rachel Zane in legal drama "Suits," married Harry in May 2018.

And when she first joined the royal family, there were some difficult conversations about how she would contribute, according to Harry.

"That was right at the beginning, when she wasn't going to get security, when members of my family were suggesting that she carries on acting, because there was not enough money to pay for her, and all this sort of stuff," the Duke told Winfrey.

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He added: "There was some real obvious signs before we even got married that this was going to be really hard."

Harry and Markle stepped back from royal life in early 2020, but told Winfrey that "without question" they wouldn't have done so if they'd had more support.

"I'm sad that what's happened has happened, but I know, and I'm comfortable in knowing that we did everything that we could to make it work," Harry said. "And we did everything on the exit process the way that it should have been done."

"We just did everything we could to protect them," Markle added.

The Duke also told Winfrey that he thinks his mother, the late Princess Diana, would have been sad that they'd left the royal family, and "very angry" about how it had happened.

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In September 2020, Markle and Harry announced they were launching their own production company and had signed a deal with Netflix, as Insider's Mikhaila Friel reported.

But Harry told Winfrey this wasn't something they'd been planning before the coronavirus pandemic.

"We hadn't thought about it," he said. "So, there were all sorts of different options. From my perspective, all I needed was enough money to be able to pay for security to keep my family safe."

A representative for Buckingham Palace didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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