Meghan Markle‘s long-awaited Spotify podcast Archetypes arrived last week, and naturally, Piers Morgan is taking yet another chance to jab the retired Suits star. In the podcast’s first episode, the former royal, 40, opened up about a fire in the nursery of her then-four-month-old son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, during her and husband Prince Harry‘s 2019 royal tour of South Africa.
Markle shared the story with podcast interviewee Serena Williams, and explained how a heater in her son’s room caught on fire. Although the infant was thankfully unharmed and with his nanny in another room when this occurred, Markle expressed that she felt understandably “shaken up” as a mother, especially after learning her child was supposed to be sleeping in that very room. Markle also said that she felt it “made no sense” that she had to attend an official engagement event that same night after the close-call incident.
While many fans expressed their concerns on Twitter or said they could “relate as mothers” to her feelings after hearing Markle’s side of the story, controversial broadcaster Morgan took to the social media app to criticize her reaction to the fire.
Markle’s critics, including Piers Morgan, were particularly enraged by a story she shared about a time there was a fire in her son Archie’s nursery while she and Prince Harry were at a royal engagement https://t.co/myhHwZZefH
— The Cut (@TheCut) August 24, 2022
Number of listeners for Meghan Markle’s podcast ‘Archetypes’: Estimated 10 million.
Average number of viewers for Piers Morgan’s TV show: 62,000. pic.twitter.com/Sn9yJVGrWP
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 25, 2022
“He wasn’t even in the room & nobody was harmed. Can you imagine the Queen whining about having to an an engagement in this circumstance?” Morgan tweeted, adding, “Markle’s victimhood knows no bounds, nor does her thirst to trash the royals whilst making $$$ from them. It’s shameless & pathetic.”Some of Morgan’s followers tweeted in a reply thread that they “agreed” with him as others dubbed him “heartless,” and “hateful,” so as usual, he caused quite a divide.
He wasn’t even in the room & nobody was harmed. Can you imagine the Queen whining about having to an an engagement in this circumstance? Markle’s victimhood knows no bounds, nor does her thirst to trash the royals whilst making $$$ from them.
It’s shameless & pathetic. https://t.co/Gu8dWatmjZ— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 23, 2022
Later on in Markle’s episode, she elaborated on the “what-ifs” that went through her mind when her son’s room became a safety hazard. “The heater in the nursery caught on fire,” she told Williams, “There was no smoke detector. Someone happened to just smell smoke down the hallway went in, fire extinguished. [Archie] was supposed to be sleeping in there.”
Even though the child’s nanny, Lauren, was safely watching him in a separate room, Markle said that she didn’t feel ready to attend any events that night after the incident deeply scared her. “We came back,” she continued. “And of course, as a mother, you go, ‘Oh, my God, what?’ Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement? I said, ‘This doesn’t make any sense.”
Fortunately, Archie and his nanny were in another room when the fire started.
Meghan said that she and Harry were so unsettled that they asked to cancel their afternoon engagement in order to stay with their son, but were told it would be bad optics to do so.
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) August 23, 2022
Markle then noted that she and Harry did indeed go to the event and left Archie behind. Markle expressed that she felt as if she had to justify her feelings since no one saw what happened. “The focus ends up being on how it looks instead of how it feels.”
