British press was destroying his mental health, says Prince Harry

Britain's Prince Harry said in an interview that he left royal life because the British press was "destroying" his mental health. His interviw was recorded in Los Angeles during an open-top bus tour of the city. "We all know what the British press can be like, and it was destroying my mental health," said Harry, who relocated to the United States with wife Meghan Markle last year. "I was, like, this is toxic. So I did what any husband and what any father would do. I need to get my family out of here." "It was never walking away," Harry  told host James Corden. "It was stepping back rather than stepping down. It was a really difficult environment", he said. 

Earlier this month, Buckingham Palace announced that the couple had permanently quit royal duties following a one-year review of the new arrangement. Queen Elizabeth II ordered the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as they are formally known, to relinquish their honorary titles and patronages. Harry has long had a difficult relationship with Britain's tabloids, blaming press intrusion for contributing to his mother Princess Diana's death in a car crash in 1997.Earlier this month, Markle won a high-profile privacy claim against Associated Newspapers for publishing a private letter that she wrote to her estranged father.Harry said he was "more comfortable" with the portrayal of the royal family in the hit Netflix series "The Crown" than he is with newspaper stories written about him and his family. "They don't pretend to be news. It's fictional," Harry said of the show.