Duchess Of Sussex Shares Heartbreaking Story Of Miscarriage

BEVERLY HILLS, CA — The Duchess of Sussex lives a public life, but in private, has met health challenges that isolate women around the world—a shared experience of heartbreak many know that comes with miscarriage and the grief that follows.

In a New York Times opinion piece published Wednesday titled "The Losses We Share," Meghan describes her private struggle following a miscarriage in July and questions the stigma around why women and families grieve in private.

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

"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. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over. I tried to imagine how we’d heal."

She recalls a moment in South Africa during a tour with her husband Prince Harry when someone asked if she was OK — and just how profound that was.

The Los Angeles native shared the isolating pain she felt.

"Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few. In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."

The Duchess of Sussex and her husband moved to Los Angeles in March. She is a mother, feminist and advocate.