‘I was bouncing’: Prince Harry took hits of laughing gas during Meghan’s labour

Prince Harry has revealed why he had “several hits” of gas while his wife Meghan Markle was in labour with their first child.

A pregnant Meghan Markle in Harry & Meghan. Picture: Netflix

The Duke of Sussex has told how he feasted on Nando’s chicken and took hits of laughing gas when wife Meghan went into labour with Archie at a private London hospital.

In his devastating memoir Spare, Prince Harry revealed he turned to gas and fast food to calm his nerves as the Suits actress was about to be induced at Portland Hospital in 2019.

“Our doctor walked in, talked it through with us, and said it was time to induce,” he writes in his autobiography about the anxious moment he was about to become a father for the first time.

“Meg was so calm. I was calm too. But I saw two ways of enhancing my calm.

“One: Nando’s chicken. (Brought by our bodyguards).

Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle was in labour with Archie while Prince Harry took hits of laughing gas. Picture: AFP

“Two: A canister of laughing gas beside Meg’s bed. I took several slow, penetrating hits,” he said.

“Meg, bouncing on a giant purple ball, a proven way of giving nature a push, laughed and rolled her eyes. I took several more hits and now I was bouncing too.

“When her contractions began to quicken, and deepen, a nurse came and tried to give some laughing gas to Meg.

“There was none left. The nurse looked at the tank, looked at me, and I could see the thought slowly dawning: Gracious, the husband’s had it all. ‘Sorry’, I said meekly,” he writes.

“Meg laughed, the nurse had to laugh, and quickly changed the canister.”

Prince Harry and pregnant wife Meghan Markle walking with along Kingfisher Bay pier, Fraser Island. Photographer: Liam Kidston

The renegade royal has divulged in his 557-page memoir available in Spain that he took cocaine, cannabis and magic mushrooms to “feel different,” revealing psychedelic drugs enable him to see “the truth”.

Prince Harry, once dubbed the party prince, said he took psychedelics both for fun and therapeutically over the years.

Writing that he smoked cannabis joints in his garden at Kensington Palace and at prestigious Eton College for boys, he said he could see “another world where the red mist didn’t exist … Only the truth existed”.

In January 2016, he said he went to California with friends and became inebriated on tequila and magic mushrooms which made him believe a bin in a bathroom had sprouted a head that was glaring at him.

Eventually in 2015, the Duke said stopped partying, opting instead to go straight home to Nottingham Cottage after work.

He attended Featherstone Lodge Rehabilitation Centre in London’s Peckham for a day on the orders of his father.