Meghan Markle, who has just launched her podcast on the Spotify platform, recounts in the first episode broadcast this Tuesday a traumatic episode that recently happened to her in her life. The Duchess of Sussex reveals how her son Archie was saved by his nanny from a fire in her room during a trip to South Africa in 2019.
The fire broke out when “the radiator in the room caught fire,” says Meghan Markle. As there was no “smoke detector”, the fire was discovered when someone “luckily smelled smoke in the hallway” and immediately doused the flames.
“Everyone was shocked”
Meghan Markle was finishing her royal duties when she was notified that a fire had broken out in her 4-month-old son’s room. Fortunately, the child was not present in the room during the fire. Her nurse had just left with him to cook.
“I had to sleep there,” says Meghan Markle.
“Of course, as a mother, you start to panic. Everyone was crying. Everyone was in shock.” Meghan and Harry had to go on another official trip, but “it didn’t make sense” after this traumatic event, the duchess said.
“We had to leave our baby”
But she was forced to go there, she reveals: “We had to leave our baby. […] We were forced to drop it and go to another royal engagement,” he laments, criticizing royal etiquette in a half-word.
Meghan Markle launched a podcast on Tuesday where she dissects clichés about women. The 12 episodes of this podcast called archetypes – a name that evokes her son Archie but also the organization she launched with her husband, Archewell – will be “intimate and candid” conversations between the Duchess of Sussex and her guests.
In the first episode, Meghan Markle and Serena Williams, friends and originally from Los Angeles, talk in particular about ambition and the different meaning that the word can take when applied to a woman, they explain.
Source: BFM TV
