Meghan Markle Recalls Terrifying Moment Archie’s Nursery Set On Fire During Africa Royal Tour
23.08.2022 - 17:01
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There was a terrifying incident involving Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie during the couple’s 2019 royal tour of Africa.
Meghan was joined by her friend Serena Williams on the first episode of her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” that premiered Tuesday, with the pair discussing their roles as mothers.
The Duchess of Sussex recalled the time a fire broke out in Archie’s room not long after they’d landed in South Africa.
Meghan shared, “Archie was what, four and a half months old. And the moment we landed, we had to drop him off at this housing unit that they had had us staying in,” People reported.
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She continued, “He was going to get ready to go down for his nap. We immediately went to an official engagement in this township called Nyanga, and there was this moment where I’m standing on a tree stump and I’m giving this speech to women and girls, and we finish the engagement, we get in the car and they say, ‘There’s been a fire at the residence.’ What? ‘There’s been a fire in the baby’s room.’ What?”
Meghan said their “amazing nanny” Lauren was “in floods of tears,” telling listeners: “She was supposed to put Archie down for his nap, and she just said, ‘You know what? Let me just go get a snack downstairs.’ And she was from Zimbabwe, and we loved that she would always tie him on her, her back with a mud cloth, and her instinct was like, ‘Let me just bring him with me before I put him down.’
“In that amount of time that she went downstairs, the heater in the nursery caught on fire. There was no smoke detector. Someone happened to just smell smoke down the hallway went in, fire extinguished…. He was supposed to