Miscarriage is still taboo – which is why Meghan's words are so powerful | Zeynep Gurtin
The mixed reaction to her speaking up proves that there’s a long way to go before women feel comfortable sharing their pain
Yesterday, the Duchess of Sussex became the latest public figure to reveal her membership of a secret club that no one wants to join. In that was rapidly read around the world, Meghan described the July morning on which she suffered the miscarriage of her second pregnancy and the “almost unbearable grief” she and her husband have experienced. “I knew,” she writes, “as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.” It is an arresting image, unusual in its representation of the two opposing truths about
