Meghan Markle heartbreakingly announces she’s suffered a miscarriage

Meghan Markle has announced she suffered a miscarriage in July this year in a personal account.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, shared the heartbreaking news in an article with the New York Times.

She explained how she felt a “sharp cramp” and “dropped to the floor” while changing her and Prince Harry’s son Archie, one, earlier this year.

Meghan was later taken to hospital in Los Angeles, where she was comforted by her “heartbroken” husband Harry, 36.

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Describing the moment she realised “something wasn’t right” she wrote in the account: “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”.

Meghan, who recently shared a tribute to Caroline Flack on her birthday, 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.”

The Duchess of Sussex continued to describe how she looked back at a moment she was asked by ITV’s royal editor Chris Ship if she was “OK” as he followed the couple on their royal tour to South Africa last year.

She wrote: “I answered him honestly, not knowing that what I said would resonate with so many — new moms and older ones, and anyone who had, in their own way, been silently suffering.

“My off-the-cuff reply seemed to give people permission to speak their truth. But it wasn’t responding honestly that helped me most, it was the question itself.”

Meghan, who recently hit out at social media trolls, continued to explain how the experience made her realise how she and her husband Harry could “begin to heal”.

The Duchess explained: “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?’”

In the powerful account, Meghan continued to explain she and Harry are “carrying an almost unbearable grief experienced by many but talked about by few”.

She added: “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.

“Some have bravely shared their stories; they have opened the door, knowing that when one person speaks truth, it gives license for all of us to do the same.

“We have learned that when people ask how any of us are doing, and when they really listen to the answer, with an open heart and mind, the load of grief often becomes lighter — for all of us. In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.”