Prince Harry says he questioned Meghan Markle about what the tabloids were writing about her when they first started dating

• Prince Harry said he questioned Meghan Markle in the early days of their relationship about what the paparazzi was publishing about her. 
• "There were things said and things written that I had to go to her to ask. And that was the hardest piece," Prince Harry said. 
• Markle said this "really accelerates the learning curve" in their relationship. 

Prince Harry admitted that after reading some articles about Meghan Markle in the British tabloids, he questioned her and their relationship. 

"There were things said and things written that I had to go to her to ask. And that was the hardest piece," Prince Harry said during a confessional interview on episode two of his new Netflix docuseries, "Harry & Meghan," which premiered on Thursday. 

"It really accelerates the learning curve in a relationship," Meghan added in her own interview. 

Earlier in the episode, Meghan discussed what it was like when the paparazzi began following her around in 2016, just after the world learned that she was dating Prince Harry. 

She recalled a day when she went to get flowers, and when she left the flower shop, there were 10 paps waiting for her, ready to ask her how she was doing.  

Meghan admitted she made the mistake of responding to them friendly, telling the group of paparazzi to "stay warm!" 

"You can't talk to them," Meghan remembered Prince Harry telling her at the time. "The UK media are saying you love it. You're smiling, you love it." 

She said she told him she was "just trying to be pleasant" and that she didn't "know what to do" because she had "never dealt with this before." 

Meghan added that at the time, she felt like the entire "UK media descended upon Toronto." Her house was "surrounded" and men would sit in cars outside of her home "waiting for me to do anything," she said. 

She said that the paparazzi were knocking on all of her neighbors' doors to find out where she was and even paid one of her neighbors to install a live-stream camera in her backyard. 

"Suddenly, it was like everything about my life got so much more insular," Meghan said. "It was scary. My face was everywhere. My life was everywhere. Tabloids had taken over everything." 

"I was hearing all of this from thousands of miles away," Prince Harry remembered of the time. "And trying to do something about it but being completely helpless."