Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, has revealed she had a miscarriage, an extraordinarily personal revelation coming from a high-profile British royal.
Prince Harry’s wife and former actress wrote about the experience in detail in an opinion piece published in the New York Times on Wednesday, saying it took place on a July morning when she was caring for Archie, the couple’s son.
“I knew as I was holding my firstborn that I was losing my second,” Meghan wrote, describing how she felt a severe cramp after lifting Archie from his crib and dropped to the floor with him in her arms, humming a lullaby. to keep both of them calm.
Meghan described how she and her husband were crying as she lay in a hospital bed hours later.
“Losing a child means bearing an almost unbearable pain, experienced by many but few speak of,” he wrote.
“With the grief of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 would have suffered a miscarriage. Yet despite the amazing commonalities of this grief, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame and perpetuating a cycle of lonely grief. “
The intimate details shared in the article are surprisingly at odds with the usual policy of older members of the British royal family, who reveal almost nothing about their personal lives.
Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, has never discussed her private life in any article or media interview during her 68-year reign.
However, there is intense global media interest in members of the greater royalty, especially when it comes to family matters such as the birth of children.
Harry’s older brother, Prince William, and his wife Kate appeared in front of television camera crews and photographers outside the London hospital where Kate gave birth to their three children shortly after each birth, each time with their newborn baby. born.
Yet despite the media frenzy, William and Kate have revealed almost nothing of substance about their home life.
“MOTHER, FEMINIST, LAWYER”
A source close to Harry said the duke had discussed the article with the royal family beforehand.
Meghan and Harry tied the knot in May 2018 in a brilliant ceremony televised around the world, but the period after their wedding was tumultuous, and the couple publicly fell out with some British media and opened up about their struggles.
They walked away from royal duties and moved to the United States earlier this year to try to carve out a new role outside the confines of life in the strictly coded British royal bubble.
The title of the New York Times article was “Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex,” and she was described as a “mother, feminist and advocate.”
Meghan wrote that 2020 had brought many people to a breaking point and asked people to put aside political differences and other divisions and care for one another.
“So this Thanksgiving, as we plan a vacation like never before, many of us separated from our loved ones, alone, sick, scared, divided and perhaps struggling to find something, anything to be thankful for, let’s get engaged. to ask others, ‘Are you okay?’ “, wrote.
“As much as we disagree, however physically estranged we may be, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all that we have endured individually and collectively this year.”
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