‘Something Wasn’t Right’: Meghan Markle Details 2nd Pregnancy Miscarriage

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has opened up about her second pregnancy and the healing process after suffering a miscarriage in July.

Markle, 39, revealed the pregnancy in an opinion article that appeared in The New York Times on Wednesday where she wrote about her miscarriage, saying it was a “July morning that began as ordinarily as any other day.”

It wasn’t until she “felt a sharp cramp” and “dropped to the floor” with her son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in her arms when she realized that “something was not right.”

“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” she said.

In the article, Markle recalls wondering how she and her husband, Prince Harry, would heal from the loss.

She wrote, “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.”

At the time, Markle recalled a year earlier when she was asked by a journalist on tour in South Africa, “Are you OK?”

The question, albeit small, gave Markle permission to heal and ask herself if she really was OK. She said she “realized that the only way to really begin to heal" is to first ask herself, “Are you OK?”

Despite her grief, Markle made it known she knew she was not alone in her struggles. She talked about the unbearable loss that miscarriages cause for 10 to 20 out of 100 women, a number that she referred to in her article. But still, Markle said, the “conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."

Markle suggested that this year for Thanksgiving, as many of us have been separated from loved ones because of the pandemic, that we commit to asking ourselves, “Are you OK?”

Prince Harry and Markle's miscarriage news comes eight months after they officially stepped down from their senior positions within the British royal family. What followed was a relocation to North America with their now 1-year-old son.