LONDON – Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are expecting their second child, their spokesman said on Sunday, good news after a tumultuous year in which they broke away from the British royal family, started new lives in California and had a miscarriage has. which Meghan said, “almost unbearable sadness.”
“We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother,” the spokeswoman said in a statement, referring to the couple’s nearly 2-year-old son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. Harry and Meghan, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are “delighted to be expecting their second child,” he said.
The statement did not say when the duchess would give birth and whether the couple knew the sex of the baby. They released an artful, black-and-white photo of them lovingly relaxing under a tree, a baby bump clearly visible on Meghan.
For the 39-year-old American actress who became a Duchess, the news is particularly welcome, given the anxiety of her miscarriage last July, which she recalled in personal terms in a column in The New York Times last November which ‘ drew an extraordinary sign. global response.
“After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp,” Meghan wrote about her son Archie, describing the morning of the miscarriage. ‘I fall to the floor with him in my arms and hum a lullaby to keep us both calm. The cheerful tune is a stark contrast to my feeling that something is not right. ‘
“I knew when I caught my firstborn,” she wrote, “that I was losing my second.”
Meghan puts her grief in the context of a heartbreaking year in which the coronavirus pandemic took loved ones away and the Black Lives Matter protests put the spotlight on police brutality.
She also described the taboo to speak openly about the loss of miscarriage, which she attributed to shame and which led to ‘lonely mourning’.
For Meghan, the news came days after a major legal victory in the battle she and Harry waged against Britain’s tabloid newspaper. On Thursday, a Supreme Court judge ruled that the publisher of The Mail on Sunday had violated Meghan’s privacy by printing a letter she wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.
The judge, Mark Warby, ruled that Meghan had a reasonable expectation that the letter would remain private. “The disclosure of the letter in articles published by The Mail was ‘apparently excessive and therefore illegal,'” he wrote.