‘Overjoyed’ Sussexes expecting second child
LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their second child, a spokesman for the couple said yesterday.
Harry (36) and Meghan (39) stepped back from royal duties in January last year and moved with their first son Archie to California to live a more independent life.
‘‘We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child,’’ the spokesman said.
Archie was born in May 2019. Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, Harry’s father Prince Charles and the whole family were ‘‘delighted’’ and wished the couple well, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said.
Since ending their royal duties, Harry and Meghan have continued charity work and signed TV and other media deals.
Last year, Meghan revealed she had had a miscarriage in July, in an extraordinarily personal disclosure coming from a royal.
The couple married in a glittering ceremony in 2018 but later gave up their official royal roles following disagreements with family members and in the face of huge media attention.
Last week, Meghan won a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers after its Mail on
Sunday paper had printed extracts of a letter she wrote to her father in 2018.