Meghan Markle in tears: I lost the baby Harry and I were expecting in July
Lightning pain and then the tragic discovery. Meghan Markle recounts the miscarriage of the second child she was expecting
Shocking news. Revealed and told by the columns of the American newspaper The New York Times. Meghan Markle had a miscarriage while pregnant with her second child last July. A great pain for her and for Prince Harry. Which the Duchess of Sussex decided to share just today.
The pain of loss
"While I was changing Archie's diaper, I felt a strong cramp," wrote Meghan Markle in the prestigious newspaper in an article entitled The Losses We Share. The loss we share. “I let myself slide to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful melody in stark contrast to my feeling that something was wrong. I knew, while I was holding my firstborn, that I was losing the second ».
It was a day like any other in the middle of summer. Probably shortly after the Dukes moved to their immense new property in Santa Barbara, also near Los Angeles. Meghan, in her article, tells how she woke up, fed the dogs, tidied up Archie's clothes and crayons before "tying my hair in a ponytail and going to get my son from his cot."
The tears of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
A few minutes after the fatality. "Hours later, I was lying in a hospital bed, holding my husband's hand. His palm was wet. I kissed his knuckles, wet with tears from both of them. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes were glassy. I tried to imagine how we would be healed "
Because Meghan wrote about the abortion
Meghan explained why she chose to share this very private moment for a couple. "Losing a child means carrying with you an almost unbearable pain, experienced by many but which few speak of," writes the Duchess of Sussex. “In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them suffered a miscarriage. Yet, despite the impressive commonality of this pain, the conversation remains a taboo, full of (unjustified) shame and perpetuates a cycle of lonely mourning ".
After Archie, the dream of the second child
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry became Archie's parents on May 6, 2019, a year after their wedding. Celebrated in St. George's Chapel in Windsor. That they both wanted to expand their family has never been a mystery. Harry himself revealed it to Jane Goodall last year. This is why Archie's arrival was an immense joy. Which could rise right at the start of their new American vote. But the destune wanted otherwise.
