James Corden has had many memorable days out in LA in recent years — there was the time he shot arrows with Jason Mamoa, for instance, or the day he went boxing with David Beckham – but his most recent outing may well be the most memorable of all.
In the video above, the Late Late Show host takes Prince Harry on an open-top bus tour of the city. The pair cram a lot in over the course of the 17-minute segment: They starting off with a visit to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s home (“If it’s good enough for the Fresh Prince, it’s good enough for a real Prince,” says Corden, in an attempt to persuade Harry to buy it); they FaceTime Meghan; and they discuss Archie’s first word (“crocodile”) and the Queen’s Christmas present for her grandson (a waffle-maker).
Things then take a more serious tone when Corden asks Harry about The Crown, which the Prince says he’s far more comfortable with than seeing the stories that get written about his family in the press.
“It was a really difficult environment, as I think a lot of people saw,” says Harry, when asked by Corden about their decision to move away from the UK. “We all know what the British press can be like, and it was destroying my mental health. I was like, this is toxic. So I did what any husband and what any father would do. It was like, I need to get my family out of here.”
To round the day off, Corden arranged “a little taste of military life” in the form of an obstacle course in which the two go head to head climbing ropes and crawling through the mud. Needless to say, Corden struggles to keep up.