All the times Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2022 revelations were proved right, or wrong
It was a big year for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
In 2022, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released their highly-anticipated Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, which gave the couple the chance to tell their story of the last four years in the spotlight, on their terms. Not to mention Meghan was also able to share details about her personal life with the release of her record-breaking Spotify podcast, Archetypes.
Throughout the past year, the couple has made a number of shocking revelations about their time as senior members of the royal family. Many of these claims made headlines, and even caught the attention of Buckingham Palace on certain occasions – forcing the Palace to issue statements regarding whether or not Harry and Meghan’s claims were unfounded.
From baby Archie’s nursery fire in South Africa to Meghan’s first meeting with Princess Kate, these are some of Harry and Meghan’s most shocking revelations of 2022.
The nursery fire
In the premiere episode of Meghan’s podcast Archetypes, which launched this summer on Spotify, the mother of two recalled how there was a fire in her son Archie’s nursery during a tour of South Africa in 2019.
During her conversation with podcast guest Serena Williams, Meghan said she was informed of a fire in the infant’s room soon after she and Prince Harry had finished a royal engagement. “We’d just landed an hour, two hours before. We raced back, and our amazing nanny Lauren, who we’d had all the way from Canada to here, was in floods of tears,” Meghan told Williams.
She explained that their nanny was preparing to put Archie in bed for his nap when she decided to bring him with her to get a snack at the last minute.
“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 happened to smell smoke down the hallway, went in, fire [was] extinguished. He was supposed to be sleeping in there.”
“We came back, and of course, as a mother… everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what did we have to do? Go out and give another official engagement.”
However, Meghan’s revelation led to backlash in South Africa, with #VoetsekMeghan, or “Go away Meghan” trending after the podcast’s release.
Despite the controversy, a source familiar with the event told The Citizen newspaper that the fire had taken place at the official residence in Cape Town.
“The heater burnt. The house didn’t burn, the rooms didn’t burn. I didn’t see the fire itself, but I saw the heater when it came out of the room. The plastic was severely melted,” the source alleged. “We were driving in convoy and all of a sudden, the convoy with Meghan broke away. We followed after… We weren’t sure what was going on.”
“When we got to the house, the house-keeper called me and showed me the heater that was burnt and told me what had happened and that the child was not in the room at the time the heater burnt, they smelt it, went up and saw the smoke,” they recalled. “When we stopped at the residence, I can tell you that she didn’t get out of the car like a lady normally gets out. She bolted into the house.”
The source told the newspaper that British security travelling with the couple allegedly recommended they not make the incident public.
“When we were outside, we discussed what we are going to do about this. It was a new heater that was just purchased and the consensus was ‘guys this is gonna look bad for us or for Cape Town, South Africa, or for whoever,’” they claimed. “The British Police guys actually told us ‘guys just leave it as is, don’t talk about this.’”
“We decided we are not going to expose this thing,” the source alleged. “That’s why we kept quiet about it back then because we knew we were going to get backlash.”
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