Meghan Markle reveals that Archie’s son’s nursery burned down in 2019

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s son Archie may have been seriously injured when his nursery burned down during their 2019 South African tour.

The 41-year-old graduate of The Suit was finishing her royal engagement just after she and Harry, 37, learned that “there was a fire in the child’s room,” Serena Williams told first episode her podcast “Archetypes”.

Fortunately, the couple’s “amazing nanny”, Lauren, took Archie, who was 4 months old at the time, downstairs for a snack, so the baby was not in the room when the fire broke out.

“Her instinct was, ‘Let me take him with me before I lay him down,’ said Markle, noting that the caretaker was from Zimbabwe and often carried the toddler” on her back with a muddy cloth. “

As Lauren and Archie left the room, “the radiator in the nursery came on”.

Since there was no “smoke detector” there, someone “accidentally smelled smoke in the corridor” and put out the flames.

“He was supposed to sleep there,” Markle told the 40-year-old tennis player. “Of course, as a mother, you say,” Oh my God. ” Everyone is crying, everyone is shocked.

Immediately after this incident, the Sussexes were expected to attend “another royal engagement” which Markle said “makes no sense” given the traumatic incident that had just taken place.

She explained, “I thought,” Can you just tell people what happened? ” … Optically, we focus on what it looks like, not how it feels.

“We did. We had to leave our baby behind,” confirmed the Duchess of Sussex. “Even though we were later moved elsewhere, we still had to leave him and go to another official engagement.”

Williams stated that she “could not have done” what Markle and Harry had done if she had been in the same scenario with her daughter Olympia.

The royal couple welcomed their son in May 2019, eight months before they stepped down from their duties as senior members of the royal family.

The duo officially resigned from their royal roles in February 2021, four months before the birth of their 1-year-old daughter Lilibet.

While the family of four now resides in Montecito, California, they all traveled to England in June to attend Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum 70th anniversary celebration.