Meghan Markle Says She Had to Continue Royal Tour After Fire Broke Out in Archie’s Room

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A terrifying moment. Meghan Markle shared a scary story about her royal tour of Africa in the inaugural episode of her new podcast, “Archetypes.”The Duchess of Sussex, 41, recalled her and Prince Harry‘s 2019 trip to South Africa, Angola and Malawi with son Archie, who was only 4 months old at the time. “The moment we landed, we had to drop him off at this housing unit that they had had us staying in,” the Suits alum recalled during the Spotify podcast’s premiere episode, released on Tuesday, August 23. “He was going to get ready to go down for his nap.”The California native and the Duke of Sussex, 37, “immediately” left for an official engagement, and after it was over, they received frightening news. “We finish the engagement, we get in the car and they say there’s been a fire at the residence,” she recalled. “There’s been a fire in the baby’s room.”Meghan and Harry raced back to their residence, where their nanny Lauren was waiting with Archie, now 3.

The little one hadn’t been in the nursery by pure chance, as Lauren had taken him with her downstairs to get a snack.“The heater in the nursery caught on fire,” the Bench author explained. “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.”After the incident, Meghan claimed that she and her husband had to proceed right to their next event. “As a mother, you go, ‘Oh, my God, what?’ Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken,” the former Tig blogger continued. “And what do we have to do?

Go out and do another official engagement? I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense.'”Meghan’s first podcast guest, Serena Williams, then asked how her friend could stand to leave Archie at home