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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Asher Añiga

'Witchcraft-Style Ritual': Prince Harry Reportedly Credits Bizarre King Charles Superstition for Meghan's First Pregnancy

Photo: AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS

Prince Harry has revealed that a 'witchcraft-style ritual' involving seals off the Scottish coast, inspired by King Charles, became a private superstition that he and Meghan Markle later linked to her first pregnancy with Archie while they were living at Kensington Palace in 2018.

The unusual story is tucked inside Harry's 2023 memoir 'Spare,' which traces the months after his May 2018 wedding to the former 'Suits' actress. The newlyweds, then still firmly inside the royal fold, were staying with Charles at the Castle of Mey in northern Scotland that summer, determined, as Harry puts it, to start a family without delay.

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