“I fell to the ground with my arms and hummed a lullaby to keep both of us calm. The cheerful melody is in stark contrast to my sense that something is wrong,” Meghan wrote.
The former actress and a member of Britain’s royal family described the hardships of losing her second child and reflected deeply in her personal play on the hardships of the past year.
“I was lying in a hospital bed, holding my husband’s hand. I felt the shells of his palm and kissed the thighs that were wet with both of our tears. Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes twinkled. I tried to imagine how he would heal,” he wrote.
“Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband break up as he tries to hold my shattered pieces, I realized the only way to heal is to first ask,‘ Are you okay? “Meghan wrote.
“Losing a child means bringing an almost unbearable grief that many experience but few talk about,” he said.
“Despite the shocking commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, imbued with (unwarranted) shame and continuing the cycle of lonely mourning,” Meghan wrote.
The princess also referred to the human effects of the epidemic as well as the movement against structural racism and police brutality that set 2020. “Health is rapidly shifting to disease. In places where there was once a community, there is now division,” he wrote.
And he referred to the spread of misinformation and the aftermath of the U.S. election in 2020, adding, “Not only are we fighting for our opinion of the facts, we are polarizing whether the fact is actually fact. whether elections were won or lost. “
“No matter how much we disagree, no matter how physically distant we are, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all that we have experienced separately and together this year,” he concluded.
Harry and Meghan stepped back from their role as members of the royal family earlier this year, moved to North America, and the tabloid media often challenged them to present their lives intensively.