'I watched the whole thing': Prince Harry blames press for Meghan Markle's 2020 miscarriage in Netflix docu
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Prince Harry singled out the press for Meghan Markle's miscarriage in 2020 in the final episodes of the couple's Netflix documentary. “I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the [Daily] Mail did,” he said in their Netflix docuseries, 'Harry & Meghan, adding, “I watched the whole thing.”
The 38-year-old was referring to the 2019 protracted legal case that the controversial royal duo had launched against The Daily Mail for blazoning a private letter that the Duchess of Sussex wrote to her father, Thomas. Meghan disclosed that after quitting the royal family in 2020, she suffered a miscarriage the first morning they woke up in their Santa Barbara home in July that year. “Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was caused, created by that?” Harry said, adding, “Of course we don’t, but bearing in mind the stress that that caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw, that miscarriage was caused by what they were trying to do to her.”
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Jenny Afia, the couple's lawyer, said that Markle, 41, was devastated by the case. “Meghan and I would be texting at 1 am or 3 am her time, she’d be awake, unable to sleep, thinking about this case, and the wider issues and the toll it was taking,” she said, according to Page Six.
Meghan's 'Suits' co-star, Abigail Spencer, fought back tears as she recollected visiting the couple in their new Santa Barbara home the previous day and immediately sensed something was off. She revealed that Meghan admitted to not being able to sleep while showing her around their home. “She was holding Archie and she just fell to the ground,” Spencer emotionally recalled.
In a November 2020 essay for The New York Times, Meghan went public with her miscarriage, writing about the horrifying experience and revealing that it happened while changing her son, Archie’s diaper the previous summer. “I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right. I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," she wrote.
The former actress, who also shares daughter Lilibet with Harry, penned that while at the hospital, she held her husband’s hand and “kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears.” “Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal. Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few," she wrote.