Meghan Markle has revealed for the first time details about their nanny during a tell-all chat with close friend Serena Williams. When speaking to the tennis pro for her new podcast series Archetypes, the Duchess dropped a bombshell that their baby son Archie, now three, escaped a fire that took hold in his bedroom whilst the Sussexes were on tour in South Africa in 2019.
Talking in the first episode of her podcast - titled The Misconception of Ambition - released on Tuesday, Meghan, who was away from Archie delivering a speech in Cape Town before the incident, praised her little boy's then-nanny, Lauren - a local Zimbabwean who instinctively tied him to her back with a mud cloth before the fire broke out.
The Duchess, 41, said Lauren, who joined them on their official tours, stayed with the family until they left for Canada. The 2019 incident comes after Harry and Meghan were 'forced to let go' of one of Archie's night nurses during her second shift 'for being unprofessional', according to the royal biography Finding Freedom in 2020.
