Meghan Markle has revealed Archie had a near miss with death as a baby after his nursery caught fire during the Sussexes’ South Africa tour.

She shared the shocking story while speaking with Serena Williams on her long-awaited new Spotify podcast, Archetypes.

The Duchess of Sussex said Archie was just four-and-a-half months old during the family’s visit in 2019.

After giving a speech at the Nyanga township in their first official visit of the trip, Meghan said she and Prince Harry were given some horrifying news.

‘There’s been a fire at the residence. There’s been a fire in the baby’s room,’ the Duchess recalled.

Meghan told Serena how a heater caught on fire in the room Archie was supposed to be sleeping in.

She said there was no smoke detector but that someone who smelt smoke down the hallway went in and extinguished the fire.

Meghan added: ‘Our amazing nanny Lauren…was in floods of tears. She was supposed to put Archie down for his nap and she just said, you know what, let me go and get a snack from downstairs.’

Fortunately Lauren took Archie with her – tying him to her back with a mudcloth – and in that same amount of time the fire broke out.

Meghan continued: ‘Everyone’s in tears, everyone is shaking. And what did we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement.

‘I said, “this doesn’t make any sense”, could you just tell people what happened?”‘

Meghan and Harry’s tour saw the Duchess getting close to tears while opening up about motherhood in an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.

At one point she thanked Bradby for asking how she’s coping, saying: ‘Not many people have asked if I’m OK’.

She said it was ‘a very real thing to be going through behind the scenes’ and confirmed it had ‘really been a struggle’.

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