After the most tumultuous of years, the announcement by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that they are expecting their second child will no doubt be hugely celebrated in all quarters.
Just a few weeks ago towards the end of last year, Meghan bravely revealed she had suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage last summer.
As her words spilled off the page of a self penned article in the New York Times, it was impossible not to be consumed by the sheer agony she and husband Prince Harry had endured.
It was a moment of brutal honesty and candidness that will have undoubtedly helped so many who have suffered, some unfortunately in silence, after the anguish of losing a child.
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Since their decision to quit the royal family last January, in favour of seeking not only “financial independence” but a new life for their new family after the birth of their son Archie, their every move has been debated and analysed by those they left behind.
Meghan’s own court battles too against a British newspaper have been subject of nervousness in the Palace as to what direction the couple were headed in - a vastly different path to the well trodden one The Firm has managed for decades before.
But with the delivery last week of a resounding victory for the Duchess over the publication of a private letter to her estranged father, it now becomes clear why Meghan had insisted last year on a delay of any trial for nine months.
Prince Harry has longed for a close family of his own, away from the spotlight and the pressure the institution he felt weighed on him.
Just looking at his and Meghan’s beaming smiles in an official photograph published last night, the future is looking bright for this burgeoning family.
One can only wish them all the happiness in the world having sacrificed so much to set upon their uncharted path.
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