Prince Harry has claimed the leaking of his wife Meghan Markle’s handwritten letter to her estranged father “caused” her devastating miscarriage.
The Duchess of Sussex wrote to Thomas Markle on the Queen’s advice after he posed for set up paparazzi photos and made negative comments about the royal family in the press.
However, the letter was leaked and large chunks were printed in the Daily Mail. Meghan successfully sued publishers of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), in 2021 after the Mail On Sunday published parts of the “personal and private” letter she had sent to Thomas Markle.
Now in their Netflix docuseries, Harry and Meghan have opened up about their tragic loss – which occurred on the morning they moved into their current home.
Discussing her loss in July 2020, Meghan told the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan: “I was pregnant, I really wasn’t sleeping and the first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried.”
He told Netflix: “I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did. I watched the whole thing. Now do we actually know the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course, we don’t.
“But bearing in mind the stress 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, the miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her.”
Discussing her miscarriage in July 2020, Meghan tells the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan: “I was pregnant, I really wasn’t sleeping and the first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried.”
Meghan Markle ‘fell to the ground in her new home when suffered the huge loss, Suits actress Abigail Spencer recalled.
She described driving up to Harry and Meghan’s new home to help them unpack and says she instantly knew “something is off.”
She said: “She’s showing me the home, and it’s very mixed emotions. ‘Here’s our new home’ but she’s like ‘I’m having a lot of pain.’
“She was holding Archie and she just fell to the ground.”
It’s not the first time Meghan has opened up about the miscarriage, and she bravely shared her story in a moving open letter in the New York Times.
She revealed she fell ill at home in Los Angeles before going to the hospital, describing herself watching her husband Prince Harry’s ‘heartbreak as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine’ while grieving for their unborn child.
Her article began: “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.”
The Duchess continued: “Hours later, I lay in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand.
“I felt the clamminess of his palm 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.”
