MEGHAN Markle was moved close to tears as she told of her "struggle" at being in the media spotlight in an emotional interview for an ITV documentary.

The Duchess of Sussex's voice cracks as she reveals she has found it difficult to cope after getting married and giving birth, adding: "Not many people have asked if I'm ok".

Meghan spoke to ITN News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby for an ITV programme filmed during her and Prince Harry's Africa tour they began in September.

Asked about the impact the intense public scrutiny has had on her "physical and mental health" she replies: "Look, any woman especially when they are pregnant you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born – you know… "And especially as a woman, it's a lot.

"So you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed it's, well…"

She continues: "Also thank you for asking, because not many people have asked if I'm OK. But it's a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes."

Tom asks her: "And the answer is, would it be fair to say, not really OK, as in it's really been a struggle?" Meghan, visibly upset, then replies: "Yes".

The interview comes following months of controversy involving Meghan and Harry.

They came under fire for their privacy demands over Archie's christening, their use of private jets, and Meghan's Wimbledon appearance when she banned fans from taking photos.

Just two weeks ago the couple waged war on the media, announcing they were suing the Mail on Sunday over its publication of Meghan's father's letters.

The letter was revealed by Thomas Markle in an interview in which he said how hurt he was by comments made by the Duchess's friends in an article for People magazine.

The 75-year-old said he did not intend to share a private letter sent by Meghan, but felt pressured to do so after he was "mischaracterised" in the People article.

For the documentary presenter Tom Bradby followed the couple, and five-month-old Archie throughout their African tour which saw Prince Harry undertake solo engagements.

The hour-long documentary features interviews with the royal couple as well and how they’re balancing public and private life. Also in the documentary Prince Harry has given a searingly open interview about the "festering wound" his mother's death left in his life.

The Duke of Sussex, 35, told Bradby that every click and flash of a camera in the public eye gives him "the worst reminder of her life as opposed to the best".

He says he felt significant pressure being a member of the royal family in the spotlight, and was particularly stressed by the memories of his mother's relationship with the press.

He was asked: "Do you feel at peace in a way yet or is it still a sort of wound that festers?"

To which he replied:"I think probably a wound that festers.

"I think being part of this family, in this role, in this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash it takes me straight back, so in that respect it's the worst reminder of her life as opposed to the best."

Meghan and Harry made the comments during his and his wife's recent 10-day tour of Africa during which the prince emotionally retraced his mother's footsteps 22 years after her death.

During the interviews, due to be broadcast on Sunday at 9pm on ITV, Prince Harry says that media focus around being a member of the Royal family means he "gets reminded of the bad stuff".

He added: "Being here now, 22 years later, trying to finish what she started will be incredibly emotional. But everything I do reminds of her.

"But as I said, with the role, with the job and the sort of the pressure that come with that I get reminded of the bad stuff, unfortunately."

During the tour Prince Harry paid an "emotional" visit to a street in Angola that was once a minefield visited by his mother Diana shortly before her death.

Princess Diana walked across a cleared minefield near the central city of Huambo in 1997 to highlight the plight of a country that remains plagued by land mines 17 years after the end of its civil war.

The images of her in body armour and a mask gave the anti-landmine campaign global recognition.

Just months later Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, when Harry was 12.

"It has been emotional retracing my mother's steps along this street 22 years on," said Harry, standing on Huambo's now-paved Princess Diana Street during the tour.

"Being here on this transformed and bustling street... shows the tremendous impact that clearing landmines has on communities and their futures."