Meghan Markle podcast South Africa
Meghan Markle’s podcast South Africa: How a fire broke out in her son Archie’s room.
On her first episode of Archetypes podcast on Spotify, Meghan Markle revealed a terrifying incident that occurred when she was in South Africa. She recalled the harrowing experience when she was on a trip to Nyanga, a township in the Western Cape.
While the Duchess was in South Africa in 2019, her son Archie was taken to a nursery in Cape Town. But while she was in Nyanga a fire broke out in her son Archie’s room.
She said,“When we went on our tour to South Africa, we landed with Archie. Archie was what, four and a half months old. And the moment we landed, we had to drop him off at this housing unit that they had had us staying in.”
Meghan added, “He was going to get ready to go down for his nap. We immediately went to an official engagement in this township called Nyanga, and 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.’ What?”
Meghan Markle has revealed that she and Prince Harry were horrified when they heard a fire had broken out in Archie’s nursery while they were on their tour of South Africa.
“She was supposed to put Archie down for his nap, and she just said, ‘You know what? Let me just go get a snack downstairs.’ And she was from Zimbabwe, and we loved that she would always tie him on her back with a mud cloth, and her instinct was like, ‘Let me just bring him with me before I put him down.’ In the amount of time that she 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,” she said.
