Meghan Markle Reveals A Nanny Saved Baby Archie's Life

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle don't typically like to share much about their children. It's all part of the couple's efforts to give them the privacy that can be hard to come by when you're a celebrity. However, that doesn't mean they haven't talked about Archie and Lilibet from time to time, with Meghan recently revealing something quite surprising about the former.

It seems that while the couple was in South Africa with their young son in 2019, his nursery caught fire. Thankfully, he made it out alive and well, and it appears that was all thanks to the boy's nanny. Meghan has now shared the woman's name on a podcast with Serena Williams, earning her plenty of praise from the royal couple's fans.

Learning there'd been a fire in Archie's nursery was a nightmare come true for Meghan Markle

For Meghan Markle, it wasn't easy to leave her son at their accommodation in South Africa while she gave a speech. However, she likely convinced herself that nothing bad would happen in the short time that she was gone. So, when she finished the speech and learned there had been a fire in the nursery, she must have imagined all sorts of horrific scenarios. It was like a mother's worst nightmare, and her immediate thought was whether Archie was okay. Thankfully, he was, and it was all because his nanny decided she wanted a snack.

The heater in the nursery caught fire while Archie's nanny was getting a snack

When she returned to the accommodation, the nanny - who Meghan Markle named as Lauren on the podcast - was apparently in floods of tears. She'd been meant to put Archie down for a nap but delayed this briefly to get something to eat. What might have been considered a selfish action ended up saving the boy from harm. That's because in the time that she'd left the nursery and come back, the heater had caught on fire. If Lauren hadn't brought Archie with her, things could have turned out very differently for everyone involved.

Meghan Markle apparently had to attend another engagement after the fire like nothing had happened

We can't begin to imagine how both Meghan Markle and Lauren felt in the aftermath of the fire. We imagine that confusion, gratitude, and relief were just some of the feelings floating around while they tried to ignore the question of "what if…?" Whatever Meghan was going through at that point, she reportedly had to suck it up and attend her next official engagement as though nothing had happened. That isn't easy to do as a mother who's just found out her child was nearly caught up in a fire. It's perhaps no wonder Meghan felt inclined to step away from the Royal Family.

Archie wasn't even six months old when that fire happened, so the incident likely made Meghan Markle extremely protective of him in the aftermath. Thankfully, the boy reportedly remains happy and healthy, and it's all thanks to Lauren's hunger pangs.