Even the birth of their first son, Archie, was surrounded by controversy. Due to Meghan's concerns around labor, she wanted to give birth at the Portland Hospital despite tradition dictating that most senior royals gave birth at the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital and posed for photos on the steps outside. A photo call was unable to happen at Portland Hospital, and so the press got their first sighting of the new royal family in the palace instead. Yet, this was not taken well. "The amount of abuse we got, especially you, but both of us, for not wanting to serve our child up on a silver platter, was incredible," Harry says.
Former BBC Radio DJ Danny Baker posted a racist tweet showing a couple holding a chimpanzee following Archie's birth and was later fired from his role. Doria stayed with the couple for the first month to help out, before Lorren Khumalo became Archie's nanny. She would wrap him in a mud cloth and tie him to her back to take him on walks, like they would do in Zimbabwe. "She just took care of, not just Archie, but she took care of us. She definitely took care of me," Meghan says.
