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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others.

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00:00Meghan Markle is opening up to the New York Times, revealing that she suffered pregnancy loss this past summer.

00:08Markle recounted the intimate experience of miscarrying her second child in an opinion piece for the Times on Wednesday, writing,

00:16I knew as I clutched my firstborn child that I was losing my second.

00:20In an extremely intimate account of how she suffered the loss, Markle revealed the morning started like any other.

00:26Make breakfast, feed the dogs, take vitamins, find that missing sock, pick up the rogue crayon that rolled under the table,

00:33throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.

00:37After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp.

00:40I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm.

00:44The cheerful tune, a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right.

00:49Later, she said she lay in a hospital bed holding my husband's hand.

00:53I felt the clamminess of his palm and kissed his knuckles, wet from both our tears.

00:58Staring at the cold white walls, my eyes glazed over.

01:01I tried to imagine how we'd heal.

01:03Markle, who shares an 18-month-old son, Archie, with husband Prince Harry,

01:07explained that she was sharing the deeply personal news to break the silence surrounding the conversations of pregnancy loss

01:13and hoped her story would help others suffering a similar loss.

01:17Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few.

01:24In being invited to share our pain, together we take the first steps toward healing.

01:29Markle ended the op-ed, remaining hopeful, sharing we will all be okay.

01:34We're adjusting to a new normal where faces are concealed by masks, but it's forcing us to look into one another's eyes.

01:40For more details on this story, head to THR.com.

01:53For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.

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