Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their second child.
“We can confirm that Archie will be an older brother,” a spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said on page six on Sunday. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to be expecting their second child.”
The couple’s son, Archie, turns 2 in May.
Announcing the news of the pregnancy, Markle, 39, and Harry, 36, shared an intimate black-and-white photo showing Markle rocking her bulge. It is said on page six that the photograph was taken remotely by the couple’s friend and photographer Misan Harriman.
The news comes a few months after Markle spoke of his “almost unbearable pain” after suffering a miscarriage in July.
The new arrival will be the first baby of British royal descent to be born in the United States after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex left their senior royal posts earlier this year.
After leaving their roles, they moved into a $ 14 million home in Montecito, California, where neighbors such as Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres live.
Rumors about Markle’s pregnancy began to swirl late last year, as her legal team had called for her privacy case to be postponed against Britain’s Mail on Sunday for nine months for “confidential” reasons. “.
The “Suits” extortionist then appeared to show a bulge in the photos posted on page six in late December as she came out all packed in a heavy parka and sweater.
Markle was praised for her brutally honest essay on pregnancy loss in the New York Times last year.
He wrote, “I knew, when I grabbed my first child, that I was losing the second,” describing how he saw “how my husband’s heart broke as he tried to grab the broken pieces.”
Harry has already said he only wants two children, after talking about his concerns for the environment and the “terrifying” effects of global warming on the British Vogue edition, invited by his wife.
As they pledged to be financially independent, the Sussex signed multimillion-dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify, following in Obama’s footsteps. Your holiday podcast is expected to air soon.
Markle is also engaged in investing and is an angel investor in the women-owned coffee brand Clevr, which Winfrey promoted to her 19 million Instagram followers.