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\"I answered him honestly, not knowing that what I said would resonate with so many — new moms and older ones, and anyone who had, in their own way, been silently suffering,\" she wrote. \"My off-the-cuff reply seemed to give people permission to speak their truth. But it wasn’t responding honestly that helped me most, it was the question itself.\"

\"Sitting in a hospital bed, watching my husband’s heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine, I realized that the only way to begin to heal is to first ask, 'Are you OK?,'\" she wrote.

Meghan also touches on the coronavirus pandemic and the social unrest in the U.S. following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

“A young woman named Breonna Taylor goes to sleep, just as she’s done every night before, but she doesn’t live to see the morning because a police raid turns horribly wrong. George Floyd leaves a convenience store, not realizing he will take his last breath under the weight of someone’s knee, and in his final moments, calls out for his mom,\" she wrote. \"Peaceful protests become violent. Health rapidly shifts to sickness. In places where there was once community, there is now division.”

She concludes the article by asking for everyone to pull together over the holiday season.

\"So this Thanksgiving, as we plan for a holiday unlike any before — many of us separated from our loved ones, alone, sick, scared, divided and perhaps struggling to find something, anything, to be grateful for — let us commit to asking others, 'Are you OK?,'\" she wrote. \"As much as we may disagree, as physically distanced as we may be, the truth is that we are more connected than ever because of all we have individually and collectively endured this year.”

\"We are adjusting to a new normal where faces are concealed by masks, but it’s forcing us to look into one another’s eyes — sometimes filled with warmth, other times with tears. For the first time, in a long time, as human beings, we are really seeing one another,\" she wrote. \"Are we OK? We will be.\"

A source close to the Sussex’s explaining the timing of Wednesday's editorial said the couple now felt ready to share their news.

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ABC News also understands that the rest of the royal family were aware of the situation and the couple’s desire to talk about it and that there is understandable sadness in the family.

Buckingham Palace has not issued an official comment in response to the news being made public.

\"This is a deeply personal matter which we would not comment on,\" a Buckingham Palace spokesman told ABC News.

Prince Harry and Meghan stepped down from their roles as senior members of the royal family earlier this year. The couple now lives in California with their son Archie.

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