New Delhi: Prince Harry's latest book 'Spare' contains a series of disclosures about the British Royal Family. From revealing his concerns regarding Camilla to killing 25 people in Afghanistan while serving the British army, the latest revelation speaks about Meghan Markle's miscarriage.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who lost their second child after the birth of their son Archie, disclosed that they together laid their infant to rest in peace. In a passage from his new memoir, 'Spare', Prince Harry revealed how he "felt totally hopeless" when Meghan Markle suffered a miscarriage in 2020. In the days following the incident, Harry and his wife "both wept" and lamented.
Talking more about it, Harry mentioned near the end of the book's 82nd chapter that Meghan had the first indications of a miscarriage on the "first morning" in their new Montecito house. She is said to have reported "abdominal pains" after which they rushed her to the hospital as she collapsed on the floor and bled.
"The doctor walked into the room, I didn’t hear one word she said, I just watched her face, her body language. I already knew. We both did", he mentioned, adding that he and Meghan "both wept" as they left the hospital carrying their "unborn kid" and feeling "totally hopeless."
Harry further mentioned a secret place under a spreading Banyan tree where they dug a hole and laid their child to rest.
"A tiny package," Harry said of the "unborn child" who left the hospital with them and whom he would later bury. "We went to a place, a secret place only we knew. Under a spreading banyan tree, while Meg wept, I dug a hole with my hands and set the tiny package softly in the ground," the Duke of Sussex wrote.
Earlier, Meghan had also revealed her miscarriage in an essay for The New York Times in November 2020.
"After changing Archie's 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," she wrote.
Markle further went on to explain, "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."
In their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, which premiered on December 2022, the pair also revisited the terrible experience of the miscarriage.
Prince Harry also mentioned in his book how Queen Elizabeth advised Meghan on the "best way to induce labour". He said that the late Queen and Meghan "truly bonded" during their first joint engagement in June 2018.
He quoted Meghan as saying, "We talked about how much I wanted to be a mom and she told me the best way to induce labour was a good bumpy car ride! I told her I’d remember that when the time came."
Harry and Meghan welcomed their daughter Lilibet in June 2021.