Baby Archie will soon be an older brother. Meghan and Harry are expecting their second child, a spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed to CBS News on Sunday.
The couple is “happy to be expecting their second child,” the spokesman added.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement to CBS News that Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and the whole family are “delighted” by the news of the new baby.
Photographer and friend Misan Harriman took a sweet picture of the remote duo, which looks like a pregnant Meghan and distributed it on social networks on Sunday. The black and white image shows the couple sitting in the grass under a tree.
“Meg, I was there at your wedding to watch this love story and my friend, I’m honored to catch her growing up,” Harriman wrote. “Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on this good news!”
The news comes just months after Meghan revealed that she had a miscarriage in July 2020. In a play for The New York Times, she detailed the deep sadness and loss she and Harry experienced.
In the paper, she wrote that she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the floor immediately after changing Archie’s diaper. “I knew, while I was raising my first child, that I was losing my second,” she said.
Describing the “unbearable pain” of child abortion, Meghan wrote that it was a subject that continued to be “taboo, full of shame (unjustified) and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning.”
The couple got married in 2018 and had little Archie in May from the following year.
The couple announced that they are Quitting from their “superior” royal roles in early 2020, a decision that shocked the British institution. The move came after reports that Meghan was very unhappy with life in the royal family and tired of the constant media intrusion. The couple has since moved to the United States and I now live in California.
Although they may no longer work for kings, the couple was certainly busy. They completed a multi-year agreement with Spotify in December to host and produce “uplifting” audio projects and podcasts. They also signed an agreement with Netflix to create children’s programs, documentaries, feature films and screenplays.