Meghan Markle on terrifying fire incident with son Prince Archie's nursery that left nanny ‘in floods of tears’
The incident took place in 2019Meghan Markle once opened up about a scary incident with son Prince Archie, involving a fire in his nursery.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, spoke about the moment Archie’s room during a royal trip caught on camera during an episode of her old podcast, Archetypes.
She said the incident left Archie’s nanny in “floods of tears”.
Meghan Markle on fire incident in Prince Archie’s nursery
Prince Harry and Meghan’s son Archie recently celebrated his sixth birthday. He was born on May 6, 2019.
Just months after Archie’s birth, the couple jetted off to South Africa for a royal tour. Their young son joined them and even made a public appearance as they met with former Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu.
However, an incident occurred on the trip that left the couple “shaken”.
On the first episode of her old podcast Archetypes in 2022, Meghan was joined by tennis legend Serena Williams.
There’s been a fire at the residence. There’s been a fire in the baby’s room.
It was also in this episode that Meghan opened up about a terrifying fire incident involving their son, Archie, that happened when he was just four-and-a-half months old during the tour.
“We dropped him off at this housing unit that we were staying at and he was getting ready to go down for his nap,” Meghan said.
She explained that she and Harry then immediately went off to their first engagement.
Meghan and Harry’s nanny in ‘tears’ over fire incident
After the engagement, Meghan and Prince Harry were told the terrifying news.
“There’s been a fire at the residence. There’s been a fire in the baby’s room,” they were told.
“Our amazing nanny Lauren… was in floods of tears,” Meghan continued. “She was supposed to put Archie down for his nap and she just said, you know what, let me go and get a snack from downstairs.”
However, Meghan explained that Lauren had taken Archie with her to get the snack.
“Meaning he luckily was not in the room when the fire started,” Meghan said.
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Meghan then went on to explain how the fire had started in Archie’s room.
“In that amount of time that she went downstairs, the heater in the nursery caught on fire,” she said.
“There was no smoke detector, someone just happened to smell smoke down the hallway so they went in and the fire was extinguished.
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“He was meant to be sleeping in there.”
The Duchess of Sussex then continued, saying: “Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what did we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement.”
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