Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their second child.
“We can confirm that Archie will be an older brother,” a Duke and Duchess of Sussex spokesman told Page Six on Sunday. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very happy to be expecting their second child.”
The couple’s son, Archie, turns 2 in May.
In announcing the news of the pregnancy, Markle, 39, and Harry, 36, shared an intimate black and white photo showing Markle cradling her belly. Page Six is informed that the photo was taken remotely by the couple’s longtime friend and photographer Misan Harriman.
The news comes a few months after Markle talked about her “almost unbearable pain” after suffering a miscarriage in July.
The newcomer will be the first baby of British royal ancestry to be born in the United States after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior royals earlier this year.
After leaving their roles, they settled in a $ 14 million home in Montecito, California, where neighbors include Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.
Rumors about Markle’s pregnancy began to spin at the end of last year, since her legal team asked that her privacy case against the British Mail on Sunday be postponed for nine months for “confidential” reasons.
The former “Suits” actress then appeared to show a swelling in the photos published on Page Six in late December, when she came out wrapped in a heavy coat and sweater.
Markle was praised for her brutally honest essay on pregnancy loss in the New York Times last year.
She wrote: “I knew, while grabbing my first child, that I was losing my second child”, describing how she saw “my husband’s heart break while he tried to hold my broken pieces”.
Harry has already said that he wants only two children, after talking about his concerns about the environment and the “terrible” effects of global warming in the British Vogue edition, edited by his wife as a guest.
As they promised to be financially independent, the Sussex signed multimillion dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify, following in the footsteps of the Obama. Your vacation podcast should go live soon.
Markle is also turning to investment – and is an angel investor in the woman-owned coffee brand Clevr, which Winfrey has promoted to his 19 million Instagram followers.