Meghan and Harry ramped up charitable support despite private miscarriage heartache
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry barely stopped their charitable campaign despite suffering a miscarriage. This is everything they were doing at the time.
As far as busy months go, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were run off their feet in July.
Explosive excerpts about their exit from royal life were slowly being leaked from the tell-all book Finding Freedom, Meghan accused the royal family of not protecting her during her pregnancy via lawyers in her legal stoush against a newspaper, and the pair lent their voices to a host of organisations over Zoom calls and summits.
Though we didn’t know this at the time, the couple were also suffering one of life’s greatest turmoils.
In an emotional personal essay written forThe New York Times, titled “The Losses We Share”, the Duchess of Sussex detailed her devastation of suffering a miscarriage.
“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.
“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
She added: “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.”
The confronting op-ed allowed millions of people into a place they’d never been – inside Meghan and Harry’s life behind the headlines.
And there were many headlines during that period.
On July 2, Meghan’s lawyers filed extraordinary documents in the Duchess’ case against Associated Newspapers, where she said she felt “unprotected by the Institution” of the royal family during her pregnancy and she was not allowed to defend herself from negative press coverage.
“The stance of “no comment” was taken by the KP (Kensington Palace) communications team without any discussion with or approval by the Claimant, as is standard practice for Royal communications,” the papers stated.
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On July 6, both Meghan and Prince Harry took part in the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust video call to raise awareness for the Black Lives Matter movement.
On July 15, Meghan delivered an address for the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up conference, alongside Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, where she gave an empowering speech urging the 40,000 attendees to fight against racism and gender inequality.
“The moment we are living through right now asks all of us to do more. It’s a moment where your voices, and your action, have never been more urgently needed,” the Duchess said.
“The path to get there will take all of us – girls and women, men and boys. It will take those that are black and those that are white collectively tackling the inequities and structural problems that we know exist.”
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Meghan celebrated what would have been a sombre 39th birthday on August 4, with a source at the time saying the couple shared a quiet night in where Prince Harry gifted her a personal necklace he designed himself.
The month after her miscarriage, in mid-August, Meghan and Harry volunteered at a charity drive in Los Angeles where – pointedly – they distributed supplies, clothes and nappies for Baby2Baby, which provides basic necessities for families.
They continued their work with children a week after, where they helped plant flowers on the 23rd anniversary of Princess Diana’s death at the Preschool Learning Centre in Los Angeles.
In the months since, Meghan and Harry have not slowed down their relentless pursuit to support necessary causes.
On International Day of the Girl in early October, Meghan and Harry partook in a conversation with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai where Harry explained why they were dedicating so much of their time to championing various causes.
“We’ve been working really, really hard and completely understand and get how challenging this (the pandemic) is for absolutely everyone,” he said.
“The longer it goes on the more it’s going to be felt especially from a mental health aspect. “This is a really unifying moment to bring everyone together and acknowledge what everyone has been through, this traumatic experience, wherever you are in the world.”
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They co-hosted the Time100 Talks in late October where they spoke to experts and advocates on the topic of “Engineering a Better World”.
The royals also urged Americans to vote in the US election in an impassioned video filmed at home.
This is just a handful of their countless virtual appearances.
On top of that, Meghan and Harry officially launched the website for their non-profit charitable organisation, Archewell, in October.
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