Prince Harry snuck away from the royal family for a secret meeting with Oprah Winfrey and a producer in a London hotel room back in 2018, it has been revealed.
Jon Kamen, chairman and CEO of media company RadicalMedia and the exec who joined the famous duo that day, told the Wall Street Journal how the prince met with the talk show host in secrecy to plan his Apple TV series on mental health.
Kamen said he watched as Harry opened up to Oprah about his struggles with mental health and decided that this should be the format for the series which launched this May.
Prince Harry met Oprah Winfrey and a producer in London hotel room in 2018. Pictured, the Duke and Duchess were interviewed by Oprah in March 2021
Harry in a six-episode series on mental health for Apple TV+ called The Me You Can't See
'Guys,' Kamen told his producing partners, 'the format of this show—we witnessed it in that hotel room.'
A six-episode series on mental health, The Me You Can't See, was released by Apple in May.
Each episode was anchored by a conversation between Prince Harry and Winfrey.
'I always wanted to be normal, as opposed to Prince Harry,' he says in the documentary.
It is not clear if the meeting took place before or after Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle in May 2018, where Oprah earned herself a guest spot among the royal family.
A six-episode series on mental health, The Me You Can't See, was released by Apple in May with each episode anchored by a conversation between Prince Harry and Winfrey
But it reveals how Harry and Meghan were already carving out commercial ventures and building up their Hollywood contacts over a year before the couple sent shockwaves through the royal family and across the globe when they announced they were quitting life as working royals and starting a new life in Hollywood.
Kensington Palace announced in April 2019 that Harry was producing a mental health series with Oprah.
Prince Harry took part in Zoom meetings with Winfrey throughout the process, initially in England, then Canada and latterly in California.
The prince shared his elite contacts with first producers, suggested the setting up of an advisory board to
