Meghan reveals miscarriage in July

Meghan Markle has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July this year, writing in The New York Times of the deep grief and loss she endured with her husband Prince Harry.

The Duchess of Sussex, who married the British prince in 2018, had the couple’s first child, Archie, the following year.

In the piece in the Times, the 39-year-old wrote that she had just changed her son’s diaper when she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the ground.

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

Writing of the “unbearable grief” of miscarrying a child, Markle said it was a conversation that remained “taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”

Touching on the coronavirus, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the recent turbulent presidential election, the Duchess of Sussex nevertheless offered a message of hope.

“For the first time, in a long time, as human beings, we are really seeing one another.”

Markle — whose mother is Black — also wrote of the death of Breonna Taylor, as well as the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African American who died in police custody.

“Loss and pain have plagued every one of us in 2020, in moments both fraught and debilitating,” she said.

Markle’s highly personal piece comes as she and her husband wage an increasingly public war with some media outlets over their right to privacy.

It echoes the story of a previous royal bride — Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

Pressure from tabloids has dogged the British prince throughout his life, and he blames them for the death of his mother.

Diana, whose treatment by the royals is shown in the fourth season of Netflix’s hugely popular The Crown, also reportedly suffered a miscarriage in 1983 at Balmoral.

Harry and Markle shocked the British establishment when they announced they were retiring from royal life.

Their withdrawal in March came after reports Markle was deeply unhappy with life inside the royal family and fed up with media intrusion.

The couple, who live with their young son in California, signed an exclusive production deal with Netflix for an undisclosed fee earlier this year.