What caused Meghan Markle's miscarriage?

Nobody outside Meghan and her doctors actually knows the medical cause, and honestly that’s how it should stay. Miscarriages can happen for many reasons, including chromosomal abnormalities, hormonal issues, stress on the body, age-related factors, or sometimes no clear reason at all.

What I found more important from her essay was how she described the moment emotionally instead of trying to medically explain it.

“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief.”

That line resonated with a lot of women because miscarriage is still treated like something people should quietly move past, even though it affects so many families.

There’s also been speculation online blaming stress, media pressure, or lawsuits happening at the time, but none of that has been medically confirmed. Prince Harry later suggested media stress played a role, but that was his personal belief, not an established cause.

Meghan Markle’s miscarriage happened in July 2020, while the couple was in the middle of moving to the United States.

It was the first morning that they woke up in their new California home.

She recounted that morning she picked up her son, little Archie, from his crib, changed his diaper, and felt a sharp cramp. “I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right,” she wrote.

“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan continued. “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.”

“Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband’s heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to begin to heal is to first ask, “Are you OK?” she added in her essay titled “The Losses We Share," which was published in the New York Times.

It was obviously a painful chapter for them but glad they were able to conceive again and have baby Lily in their lives.