Royal experts say Meghan Markle should know 'show must go on' since staff don't recall a FIRE in Archie's room
LONDON, UK: A royal expert has said that Meghan Markle should have expected the "show must go on" and her engagements would continue after a "fire" broke out in her son Archie's room in South Africa. "Meghan outraged that she had to go on another royal engagement in South Africa after she heard there was a fire in baby Archie's room. Nasty to hear but as an actress doesn't she know the show must go on. Luckily he wasn't there but odd it was never leaked to the press," royal expert Angela Levin reportedly said.
In the first episode of her new podcast, Meghan claimed she was forced to continue with engagements on a South Africa tour even though she was distraught and left in tears when her son Archie narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom. Meghan opened up about the fire during the tour of South Africa in autumn 2019 during a conversation with Serena Williams in a podcast titled 'The Misconception of Ambition with Serena Williams'.
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"There was this moment where I'm standing on a tree stump and I'm giving this speech to women and girls, and we finish the engagement, we get in the car and they say there's been a fire at the residence. What? There's been a fire in the baby's room," Meghan said while speaking in the podcast about the fire in South Africa in Archie's room. She added, "We came back. And, of course, as a mother, you go, 'Oh, my God, what?' Everyone's in tears, everyone's shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement. I said, 'This doesn't make any sense.'"
At the time, the Sussexes had dropped Archie off at the housing unit they were staying in soon after flying in for their official tour in 2019. The child's former nanny, Lauren, took him downstairs to get a snack when the heater in the nursery caught fire. "In that amount of time that she went downstairs, the heater in the nursery caught on fire. There was no smoke detector. Someone happened to just smell smoke down the hallway, went in, fire extinguished. He was supposed to be sleeping in there," Meghan said.
Meghan recalled how she wanted to tell people what had happened. "I was like, 'Can you just tell people what happened?' And so much, I think, optically, the focus ends up being on how it looks instead of how it feels," she said, stressing the need to understand "human moments behind the scenes". Despite Meghan claiming there was a fire in the room, there were others who recalled only seeing the heater smoking. The heater had to be unplugged to deal with the situation, but they do not believe there was actually any fire in the room.
She added, "We had to leave our baby...and even though we were being moved into another place afterward, we still had to leave him and go do another official engagement." "I couldn't have done that," Williams said in response. Meghan and Harry's South Africa tour took place in the autumn of 2019, which is just a few months before the two of them quit as senior working royals of the royal family.
Meanwhile, Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told MailOnline, "Meghan and Harry's visit to District Six, where they saw the museum which honored those who were forcibly removed by the Government in 1966 and went on an impromptu walkabout, was considered a success at the time. They met some of those who were affected by the removal policy and their visit was an important event on their official tour to South Africa."
"It was undoubtedly scary for them when they heard that Archie had been at risk in a fire. Most fortunately he had not been in the room at the time, his nanny had taken him with her when she left to have a snack," Richard added. "Since, fortunately, no one had been hurt and although it must have been highly upsetting, there was surely no alternative but to continue with the itinerary of their tour. It would have been so disappointing to so many if they had not. It was in Tom Bradby's subsequent ITV documentary of what had been considered a highly successful tour that the world learnt how deeply unhappy the Sussexes were with royal life."