Prince Harry Blames Meghan Markle's Miscarriage on 'The Mail on Sunday'

Prince Harry has blamed The Mail on Sunday for Meghan Markle's miscarriage two years ago, saying in a lawsuit that she suffered from stress and a lack of sleep because of what the British newspaper was doing.

The Duke of Sussex told Netflix series Harry & Meghan how the couple don't know for sure what caused the Duchess of Sussex to lose her baby, but said he believes the tabloid newspaper was responsible.

At the time, in July 2020, Meghan was suing The Mail on Sunday for breach of privacy and copyright after it published a letter she had sent to her father begging him to stop talking to the media.

The newspaper's lawyers argued in court that the names of several of Meghan's friends, who had defended her in anonymous interviews to People, should be made public.

Prince Harry said: "I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what The Mail did. I watched the whole thing.

"Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was created, caused by that? Course we don't. But 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 created by what they were trying to do to her."

Meghan said: "I was pregnant. I really wasn't sleeping. The first morning when we woke up in our home is when I miscarried."

Abigail Spencer, Meghan's co-star in Suits, said she was with Meghan at the time and described the moment Meghan collapsed while holding son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.

She told the documentary: "I'm driving up like, 'We're gonna unpack, we're gonna get settled.'

"And Meg is standing outside waiting for me and I can tell something's off. And she's showing me the new home so it's very mixed emotions. 'Here's our new home,' but she's like, 'I'm having a lot of pain.'

"She was holding Archie and she just fell to the ground."

Meghan described her experience of the miscarriage in an essay for The New York Times in December 2020 titled "The Losses We Share."

She wrote: "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.

"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.

"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."

In the documentary, Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother, praised the duchess for having the courage to speak out.

Ragland said: "I thought she was brave and courageous but that didn't surprise me because she is brave and courageous."

Meghan added: "When I reveal things that are moments of vulnerability, when it comes to having a miscarriage and having maybe felt ashamed about that, like, 'it's OK, you're human. It's OK to talk about that.'

"And I could make the choice to never talk about those things. Or I could make the choice to say 'with all the bad that comes with this, the good is being able to help other people.'"

Meghan eventually won the Mail on Sunday lawsuit in December 2021 but only after further storms along the way and she suggested she feared a second miscarriage while pregnant with daughter Lilibet.

In a witness statement to the Court of Appeal in November 2021, she said: "On October 20, 2020, my solicitors issued an application to adjourn the trial due to take place in January 2021.

"I was in the first trimester of my third pregnancy at the time (having suffered a miscarriage a few months prior) and was feeling very unwell.

"My doctor advised me to avoid stress, particularly given the recent miscarriage days after [The Mail on Sunday] threatened to break the confidentiality of the original 'sources' for the People magazine article, which resulted in my having to make an urgent application for an anonymity order.

"This was granted by Mr. Justice Warby, but I found the process extremely stressful, and it took its toll physically and emotionally."

Update 12/15/22, 6:00 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to include background information on Meghan's miscarriage and her lawsuit against The Mail on Sunday.