Meghan Markle does not seem to recall that back in 2020, she publicly shared that she and her husband, Prince Harry, had suffered a miscarriage.
Meghan even wrote an op-ed about her experience, hoping to reach out to others who dealt with similar emotions. However, her story did not receive the kind of traction she had hoped for. Now, seeing the attention and support that the Princess of Wales is receiving for her cancer battle, Meghan can't help but wonder why she didn't receive the same sympathy during such a dark period.
Last week, Princess Catherine made her first public appearance in over six months despite her current health condition. The public commented on how beautiful and radiant she looked alongside the royal family. It goes without saying that Meghan Markle feels a pang of jealousy. She wanted that same kind of attention after her miscarriage, especially since she was carrying a royal baby. Many critics at the time believed that Meghan wrote her piece for attention, thinking she just wanted to highlight her troubles, but it didn't work out the way she'd hoped.
Prince Harry has since claimed that Meghan suffered a miscarriage due to the stress of a court case against the Mail on Sunday. Meghan described losing the pregnancy the day after moving into their new home in Montecito, California, in 2020. At the time, she was involved in a high court privacy case against the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online, which had published extracts from a letter that she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle. She said, "I was pregnant. I really wasn't sleeping, and the first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried."
The pregnancy hadn't been officially announced, and the miscarriage was only revealed when Meghan wrote about it in the New York Times four months later. Harry added, "I believe that my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did. I watched the whole thing. Do we absolutely know the miscarriage was caused by that? Of course, we don't. But bearing in mind the stress that caused, the lack of sleep, and the timing of the pregnancy, I can say from what I saw that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her."
However, Catherine's patronage, Tommy's Baby Charity, published a rebuttal to the claims in the documentary that emotional stress causes miscarriages. The charity felt compelled to set the record straight, stating in the latest episodes of Prince Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary, Harry and Meghan, that the couple speaks about their experience of miscarriage and the role they feel stress played in the loss of their baby in July 2020.
The article continued, "One in five pregnancies will end in miscarriage, and unfortunately, we still don't know why every miscarriage happens. That's why we opened the UK's only research center dedicated to understanding miscarriage and preventing it. As it stands, our research doesn't currently show that stress directly causes miscarriage. Women who experience persistent high stress do have higher rates of miscarriage, but more research is needed to understand whether stress or other factors are the cause. The most important thing is to get the right treatment and support at the right time during any pregnancy journey."
Miscarriages are incredibly common and hard to prove, therefore some royal fans doubt Meghan's miscarriage claim. Lady C claimed that the Mail on Sunday court case didn't cause the miscarriage, suggesting that Meghan's age and its associated risks were more likely factors. Lady C believes Meghan often blames others for her misfortunes.
Further controversy arose when it was suggested that Meghan plagiarized Stephanie Tong's miscarriage story for her New York Times article. Critics argue that anyone genuinely mourning their unborn child wouldn't insult their memory by using another's story. In the end, Meghan's miscarriage story and subsequent narrative have been met with mixed reactions, leaving many questioning the authenticity and intentions behind her public revelations.
