Almost a week after Meghan Markle’s miscarriage was announced, Prince Harry spoke in a video about his fatherhood.
Since Meghan Markle’s miscarriage was announced in a signed op-ed piece in the New York Times on November 25, Prince Harry had not spoken out. Now he has. The Duke of Sussex broke the silence on Tuesday, December 1 in a video interview he gave at the launch of WaterBear, a kind of eco-friendly Netflix.
Very committed to the environment, Diana’s son was keen to support this new platform which will offer free documentaries of original live content from 80 NGOs. These are programs that the Africa enthusiast may watch with his son, Archie, in a few years time. He preferred to talk about him rather than the drama he experienced with his wife last July. Rather than talking about the tragic loss of a child, the 36-year-old man chose to talk about the living and his 19-month-old son.
For the man who lost his baby last summer, “being in nature is the most healing thing in life. These are values that he intends to instill in Archie. He doesn’t hide it: his fatherhood has turned him upside down.
“The moment you become a father, everything really changes because you begin to realize and ask yourself: what’s the point of bringing a new person into this world that will be on fire when he’s your age,” said Prince Harry. An interview spotted by the Daily Mail in which he seems worried about the future of the children of Archie’s generation.
A committed dad
“We can’t steal their future. (…) I always thought we could leave a better world than it was when we found it, so I think we need to take a moment and think hard about how we can get what we need without taking from our children and future generations,” said Meghan Markle’s husband.
Prince Harry spoke of the “universally difficult year” that everyone has experienced. Of course he was talking about the coronavirus crisis, but as he said those words, his thoughts were probably also turned to the miscarriage that darkened their summer.
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