Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, writing about the loses she shares with Prince Harry has revealed she suffered a miscarriage earlier in the year.
She revealed this in the writing published in the New York Times on Wednesday, saying the miscarriage happened in July this year.
In the piece, the 39-year-old wrote that she had just changed her son’s diaper when she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the ground.
“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she wrote.
Writing of the “unbearable grief” of miscarrying a child, Markle said it was a conversation that remained “taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”
She wrote: “It was a July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day: Make breakfast. Feed the dogs. Take vitamins. Find that missing sock. Pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table. Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.
“After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp. 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. Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand”
The Duchess of Sussex, who married the British Prince in 2018, had the couple’s first child, Archie, the following year.