Moving royal miscarriage & baby loss stories: Duchess Sophie, Meghan Markle, Zara Tindall
The Duchess of Sussex is the most recent royal who has shared her story
It’s Baby Loss Awareness Week 2024 from 9 to 15 October, and to mark the poignant campaign, we look back at the times members of the royal family have opened up and their own baby loss.
Meghan Markle was the latest royal to speak out about the loss of her second baby with Prince Harry, but she’s not alone. Other members of the royal family have also bravely spoken up to share their own experiences with miscarriage and pregnancy loss.
It’s thanks to these women, along with celebrities such as Amanda Holden and Chrissy Teigen who have also discussed their devastating miscarriages, that it’s becoming less of a taboo, giving those who have suffered the confidence to reach out for help. It also helps those who have been through similar trauma feel less alone.
Meghan Markle
It was in an open letter for the New York Times titled, ‘The Losses We Share’, that the Duchess of Sussex revealed the heartbreaking loss of her second baby with Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, in July 2020. She detailed the moment she realised it was happening.
“I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with Archie 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.”
She added: “Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.” Meghan and Harry went on to have their daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on 4 June 2021
