In a bit of huge news, Meghan
revealed that the South Africa trip where she and Harry first told
journalist Tom Bradby that they were struggling with their royal
roles was even more stressful from the inside.
Meghan said that they left
their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, then four-and-a-half months
old, with his nanny at the location where they would be staying and went to the
pair’s first engagement of the trip at Nyanga Township. When the engagement was
done, they received word that a fire had broken out at the dormitory.
“The heater in the nursery
caught on fire,” she said. “There was no smoke detector. Someone who happened to
just smell smoke down the hallway went in a fire extinguisher. He was supposed
to be sleeping in there.”
She explained that Archie’s
nanny, Lauren, was holding him in a different room and he was safe,
but she still felt shaken up. “We came back,” she continued. “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.”
