Meghan Markle Shares Rare Insight on Her 2020 Miscarriage

Meghan Markle has shared her thoughts regarding the miscarriage she experienced in 2020.

On Tuesday, April 15, during an episode of her podcast “Confessions of a Female Founder,” Meghan, 43, reflected on her own journey with pregnancy loss after her guest, Reshma Saujani, discussed her own experiences with multiple miscarriages and her decision to step back from her organization, Girls Who Code.

“In a parallel sense … you have to learn to let go of something that holds so much promise and hope, and eventually, come to a point where you accept that it’s OK to let something go, something you intended to cherish for a long time,” Meghan shared with Saujani, 49.

Saujani commended Meghan’s “very insightful” remark, humorously suggesting that Meghan might have been “reading [her] diaries.”

“I don’t think anyone’s articulated it that way [or], like, expressed it that way for me,” Saujani added.

In a poignant op-ed published in November 2020, Meghan candidly spoke about her miscarriage with her husband, Prince Harry. (The couple, who married in 2018, are parents to Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3.)

“After changing [Archie’s] diaper, I felt a sudden cramp,” Meghan recounted in her New York Times essay. “I collapsed to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful melody starkly contrasting my intuition that something was wrong. I understood, as I held my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”

Meghan further described lying in a hospital bed while holding Harry’s hand.

“I could feel the warmth of his palm and kissed his knuckles, dampened by both our tears,” she recounted. “Staring at the sterile white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to visualize our path to healing.”

Nearly two years after disclosing her miscarriage, Meghan and Harry openly discussed their choice to share the distressing news with the public.

“When I expose moments of vulnerability, like having experienced a miscarriage and feeling some shame surrounding it, I think, ‘It’s natural, you’re human. It’s alright to discuss it,’” Meghan explained in a December 2022 episode of her and Harry’s Netflix docuseries. “I can choose to remain silent about these experiences, or I can choose to say, ‘Amidst all the negativity, the silver lining is the ability to support others.’ That’s what life is about, right? Connection and community.”

Later in the docuseries, Harry expressed his belief that Meghan’s miscarriage was partly caused by the stress linked to her lawsuit against the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday for publishing her private letter to her father, Thomas Markle. (The trial concluded in Meghan’s favor in January 2022, with Meghan receiving £1 as compensation from the publication.)

“Do we definitively know that the miscarriage was a result of that? Of course, we don’t, but considering the stress it caused, the lack of sleep, the timing of the pregnancy, and her stage of pregnancy, from what I witnessed, it seemed that the miscarriage was influenced by what they were attempting to do to her,” Harry shared in an episode.