The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has revealed that her nanny is a Zimbabwean nurse, named Lauren who saved her son, Archie, when he narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom during a tour of South Africa in 2019.
Markle, was speaking during an interview on her new podcast
Archetypes with Serena Williams.
The drama unfolded when a heater in Archie's bedroom caught
fire, setting the nursery alight - though fortunately four-and-a-half month old
Archie was downstairs with his nanny, who had gone 'to get a snack.'
‘In that amount of time that [the nanny] went downstairs,
the heater in the nursery caught on fire. There was no smoke detector. Someone
happened to just smell smoke down the hallway, went in, fire extinguished. He
was supposed to be sleeping in there.”
“There was this moment where I’m standing on a tree stump
and I’m giving this speech to women and girls, and we finish the engagement, we
get in the car and they say there’s been a fire at the residence. “What?
“There’s been a fire in the baby’s room. “As a mother, you
go, ‘Oh, my God, what?’ Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what do we
have to do? Go out and do another official engagement.
“I said, ‘this doesn’t make any sense. Can you just tell
people what happened?’ And I think the focus ends up being on how it looks
instead of how it feels.
“And part of the humanising and the breaking through of
these labels and these archetypes and these boxes that we’re put into is having
some understanding on the human moments behind the scenes that people might not
have any awareness of and to give each other a break. Because we did – we had
to leave our baby.”
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