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Meghan did consider a home birth but did not seriously consider having her first child in the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital, where Kate had all three of her children. She wanted something more private and in turn she and Harry didn't tell anyone—not their closest friends, not their aides—that they were headed to London's Portland Hospital for the birth of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor on May 6, 2019.
Okay, aside from Meghan's doctors, one person knew: Her mother.
"Meghan described the moment she first held Archie as 'ecstasy...total bliss and contentment,'" a friend said. Knowing they were having a boy, they had settled on a name about a week before Archie was born.
As far as alerting Archie's maternal grandfather, Meghan had Doria text her ex-husband about his grandchild's birth because she didn't want him finding out about it on the news. But she didn't want to know if, or what, he replied.