Harry & Meghan is a Netflix docuseries released on December 8, 2022, where they shared their personal stories and archives. In one of the episodes released on December 15, Prince Harry referred to the legal case that they filed against the British daily newspaper The Daily Mail in 2019 and claimed that it led to Meghan Markle miscarrying the child.
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“I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the [Daily] Mail did,” Harry said in the docuseries. The couple filed the case against The Daily Mail for leaking a personal letter that Markle wrote to her father.
According to him, Meghan used to feel stressed and faced difficulty sleeping at that time because of the tabloids that completely consumed her.
“Bearing in mind the stress that that caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy, how many weeks in she was, I can say from what I saw, that miscarriage was caused by what they were trying to do to her,” Harry added.
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Jenny Afia, the lawyer who fought the couple’s case said, “Meghan and I would be texting at 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. her time, she’d be awake, unable to sleep, thinking about this case, and the wider issues and the toll it was taking.”
Meghan in November 2020 wrote about her pregnancy in an article stating, “I dropped to the floor with him (son Archies) 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 first-born child, that I was losing my second.”
The docuseries Harry & Meghan’s episodes that aired on December 8 recorded the highest viewing hours of a documentary in a premier week with 81.55 million viewing hours.