Meghan Markle Reveals She Suffered A Miscarriage Earlier This Year

In an essay for the New York Times{ =nofollow}, Meghan Duchess of Sussex has detailed the 'unbearable grief' she and her husband Prince Harry suffered following a miscarriage. Meghan has said the miscarriage - which she said she discovered with a 'sharp cramp' - happened earlier this year, after the birth of her first child, Archie.

'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,' she wrote. 'I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.'

Meghan adds: 'Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few. In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.'

One of the themes which runs throughout the essay centres on Meghan urging people to ask others if they are OK - following that famous moment from the ITV documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey where she admits, after journalist Tom Bradby asks if she's alright, that not many people had asked her. The Duchess of Sussex wrote, 'Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband’s heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to begin to heal is to first ask, “Are you OK?”'

Meghan's brave essay follows that of Zara Tindall in 2018. The daughter of Princess Anne revealed that she had experienced two miscarriages before having her second child.

If you have been affected by miscarriage, The Miscarriage Association can be contacted via their website.

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