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Prince Harry has admitted he would "roll a joint" as wife Meghan Markle and son Archie slept while they stayed at Tyler Perry's California mansion.
The Duke of Sussex made the admission in his memoir Spare, which has finally been released today - and charts his life from the death of his mother Princess Diana.
The book goes into detail about Harry and Meghan's exit from royal duties and how they quit the UK in order to forge a new life in the United States.
On arriving in California in March 2020, Tyler allowed the Sussexes to stay in his California mansion while they found their own place to stay.
Prince Harry with wife Meghan Markle last year (Peter Dejong/AP/REX/Shutterstock)In the book, Harry recalls how he and Meghan loved Tyler's house describing it as 'Xanadu'.
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But with security concerns on his mind, he also details how when everybody had gone to sleep, he would find himself walking around the house checking the doors and windows.
And in the memoir, he writes: "Then I'd sit on the balcony or the edge of the garden and roll a joint.
"The house looked down onto a valley, across a hillside thick with frogs. I'd listen to their late-night song, smell the flower-scented air. The frogs, the smells, the trees, the big starry sky, it all brought me back to Botswana." Cannabis has been legal for recreational use in California for those over the age of 21.
Harry, Meghan and Archie on a visit to South Africa in 2019 (Getty Images)Elsewhere in the book, Harry talks about drug use including recounting taking cocaine when he was 17 as well as magic mushrooms on another occasion.
In the recent six-part Netflix docu-series Harry & Meghan, Tyler spoke out about why he offered the couple his house months after they stepped down from royal duties.
Meghan revealed how she reached out to the movie producer she had never met in person - after he sent her a note - and he told her she and Harry could stay at his house.
In the final episode of that series, Tyler said that he was not a "royal watcher" but that he "saw something about her father".
Harry and Meghan's friend Tyler Perry, who let them stay at his California mansion (Netflix)The documentary refers to Meghan's dad Thomas Markle staging paparazzi pictures in the run-up to the royal wedding, which he apologised for a month later.
"I found it to be hurtful if he were my father," Tyler said in the documentary. "And I couldn't even imagine this woman finding the man that she loved, the man of her dreams, and him being a prince, and then to walk into all of that madness and need the security of family and then have your father do some horrible things."
He continued to say that he "immediately" empathised with Meghan and had sent her a note before the wedding.
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"That's where Tyler came into the picture," Meghan said. "I'd never met him before. He sent me a letter before the wedding just saying he was praying for me, and that if I ever need anything he would be there.
"Months and months and months went by and then one day when we were in Canada I called him. Finally, after years at that point, first time we ever spoke, and I was just a wreck.
"I was just crying and crying. Sometimes it's easier to just open up to someone who knows nothing at all.
"And that was that moment with me and Tyler."
Spare by Prince Harry and published by Penguin Random House is out now.