Sources

What this site is built on — official records first, primary interviews second, reputable reporting third — and how every image is provenanced.

Primary and official sources

royal.uk — the official royal family website: biographies, announcements, and the archive of Buckingham Palace statements (including 18 January 2020 and 9 March 2021).
Buckingham Palace statements — the 18 January 2020 terms of the step-back; the 9 March 2021 response to the Oprah interview (“while some recollections may vary…”).
The 1917 Letters Patent (London Gazette) — the mechanism governing princely titles for Archie and Lilibet.
UK Ministry of Defence releases — Harry’s commissioning, Afghanistan deployments, Apache qualification, and 2015 departure from the Army.
The Invictus Games Foundation — Games history, host cities, and the Foundation’s stated mission.
Sentebale — founding history and annual reports.
Archewell — the foundation’s published mission and programme pages.
The couple’s 8 January 2020 statement (issued via Sussex Royal, archived) — the step-back announcement in their own words.
High Court records — the December 2023 MGN phone-hacking judgment; the January 2025 NGN settlement statement; case-management records for the ongoing Associated Newspapers claim.

Bryony Gordon, Mad World podcast, The Telegraph, April 2017.
Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, ITV/HBO, July 2017.
Tom Bradby, Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, ITV, October 2019.
Sentebale dinner remarks, London, 19 January 2020 (BBC/Guardian verbatim reporting).
Oprah with Meghan and Harry, CBS, 7 March 2021.
Tom Bradby, Harry: The Interview, ITV, January 2023.
BBC interview, May 2025 (security ruling).

Spare (Random House, 10 January 2023; ghostwritten by J. R. Moehringer) — treated throughout as Harry’s account, with verification status tested on spare.md.

BBC News, Reuters, The Guardian, ITN — used for dates and on-record statements. Tabloid exclusives are cited only when they are the story (e.g., the 2008 blackout break) and are labeled as such.

See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.

Anonymous-source tabloid claims presented as fact.
Paparazzi photographs of the children (none are used anywhere on this site).
AI-generated imagery of the real person (prohibited by this site’s policy; see methodology.md).

This page is the bibliography for the whole site; individual pages carry their own Source notes with page-specific citations.
See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.