<p>Meghan Markle has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July this year, writing in the New York Times on Wednesday of the deep grief and loss she endured with her husband Prince Harry.</p>.<p>The Duchess of Sussex, who married the British prince in 2018, had the couple's first child, Archie, the following year.</p>.<p>In the piece in the Times, she wrote that she had just changed her son's diaper when she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the ground.</p>.<p>"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," Markle wrote in the Times piece.</p>.<p>Writing of the "unbearable grief" of miscarrying a child, Markle said it was a conversation that remained "taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."</p>.<p>Her highly personal piece comes as she and her husband wage an increasingly public war with some media outlets over their right to privacy.</p>.<p>She claims Associated Newspapers breached her privacy, her data protection rights and copyright by publishing extracts of correspondence with her estranged father, Thomas, before she married Harry.</p>.<p>Harry and Meghan shocked the British establishment when they announced they were retiring from royal life.</p>.<p>Their withdrawal in March came after reports she was deeply unhappy with life inside the royal family and fed up with media intrusion.</p>.<p>The couple, who live with their young son, in California, signed an exclusive deal with the streaming giant Netflix for an undisclosed fee earlier this year.</p>.<p>They have set up a non-profit organisation to promote education, mental health and well-being.</p>
<p>Meghan Markle has revealed she suffered a miscarriage in July this year, writing in the New York Times on Wednesday of the deep grief and loss she endured with her husband Prince Harry.</p>.<p>The Duchess of Sussex, who married the British prince in 2018, had the couple's first child, Archie, the following year.</p>.<p>In the piece in the Times, she wrote that she had just changed her son's diaper when she felt a sharp cramp and fell to the ground.</p>.<p>"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second," Markle wrote in the Times piece.</p>.<p>Writing of the "unbearable grief" of miscarrying a child, Markle said it was a conversation that remained "taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."</p>.<p>Her highly personal piece comes as she and her husband wage an increasingly public war with some media outlets over their right to privacy.</p>.<p>She claims Associated Newspapers breached her privacy, her data protection rights and copyright by publishing extracts of correspondence with her estranged father, Thomas, before she married Harry.</p>.<p>Harry and Meghan shocked the British establishment when they announced they were retiring from royal life.</p>.<p>Their withdrawal in March came after reports she was deeply unhappy with life inside the royal family and fed up with media intrusion.</p>.<p>The couple, who live with their young son, in California, signed an exclusive deal with the streaming giant Netflix for an undisclosed fee earlier this year.</p>.<p>They have set up a non-profit organisation to promote education, mental health and well-being.</p>