this is "nightline." >> tonight. bucking tradition. the royal deal. after that stunning announcement by prince harry and wife duchess meghan. what may have driven the couple away. and from one brother to another their response to rumors of a relationship turned sour. plus, modern baby. never too shy. amy schumer bringing home the hardship of infertility and shining a spotlight on ivf. a reality faced by millions of people across the world. as we follow one couple's emotional ivf journey. >> fortunately, i don't have to deliver any bad news because you are pregnant. >> reporter: and happy ending.

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this in the wake of prince harry and his wife, duchess meghan, shocking the world with plans to step back from their royal duties. how they were driven to this point and now what the future holds. here's abc's james longman. >> reporter: they're two of the most famous siblings in the world, william and harry. walking through life together, inseparable as children, laughing alongside their mother, diana. sharing in their grief at her funeral. they grew up in the spotlight, leaning on one another, standing side by side at each other's weddings, eventually welcoming children of their own. their bond seemed unbreakable. but now apparently they're a family divided. >> i think they both love each other dearly, but when you get married, have your own family, you've got different priorities. in all honesty i think that they have grown apart a little. >> reporter: last week the duke and duchess of sussex went public with their bombshell plan to leave their posts as senior royals.

>> royal bombshell. >> the growing fallout from harry and meghan's royal exit. >> did the queen know this was coming? >> reporter: the news sparking an international frenzy. the british press dubbing it next-it. now all eyes on the royal family. a summit called for by the queen took place at her majesty's private home in sandringham. prince charles, william, and harry all in attendance. meghan in canada. >> he's a father. his prior priority is his wife and son and i think what we're seeing is he's putting them first. >> reporter: it's still early days but for now it seems the family has reached a tentative agreement. the queen voicing her support but admitting it was not what she wanted. issuing this statement. "although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working members of the royal family we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family." harry and meghan have made clear they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new

lives. it has therefore been agreed that there will be a period of transition in which the sussexes will spend time in canada and the uk. >> i spoke to a number of people that know the queen very well and the reality is she absolutely is a pragmatist, let's gust get this resolved. >> reporter: just ahead of today's meeting a glimpse of unity, prince william and harry releasing their first statement since the announcement pushing back on rumors that william bullied harry out of the royal family. for brothers who care so deeply around the issues surrounding mental health the use of inflammatory language in this way is offensive and potentially harmful. where harry and meghan have ended up is a far cry from how it all began. a royal wedding watched by millions. but it's not been the fairy tale once imagined. >> they have been given a lot of freedom by royal standards but there are some things that they just have to -- some rules they have to abide by, and i think she just has found that restricting, difficult and now wants out. >> reporter: the couple's decision coming after months of

rumored rifts inside the palace and growing tensions outside with the press. all this seemingly pushing the pair to their breaking point. >> don't behave like this. >> reporter: in retrospect some say there were clues, pointing to that ten-day royal tour of africa last fall. at the time the couple opening up to itv's tom bradby in a documentary harry and meghan: an african journey. harry addressing ongoing reports of tension with his brother william. >> how much of that is true? >> stuff happens. but look, we're brothers. we'll always be brothers. >> reporter: in that same documentary meghan spoke to bradby about her private struggle to fit in. >> it's not enough to just survive something. right? like that's not the point of life. you've got to thrive. you've got to feel happy. and i think i really tried to adopt this british sensibility of a stiff upper lip. >> it has its -- >> i really tried. but i think that what that does

internally is probably really damaging. >> reporter: now in a new itv documentary bradby reflects on how that trip was just the beginning of this ongoing saga. >> my best guess is they wanted that i think to be a bit of a pressure release valve. they wanted it as an indication of if they ever made the announce; which we've now seen that there would be some preparing the ground. >> do you think at that point that two months down the line, the turn of the year, harry and meghan will be announcing pretty much that they want out? >> yeah. i do think that. >> reporter: some would say perhaps it's a clash of cultures. >> she came with a different background. she was american. she was a divorcee. she was independent, financially independent. so there was going to have to be a readjustment on both sides. >> reporter: but their relationship with the british tabloids has been fraught from the beginning. just a few months into their budding romance british tabloids descended on them, some with racially charged headlines and commentary like this one from the "daily mail" that read "harry's girl is almost straight

outta compton." >> she's been subject to incredible online abuse. as has kate middleton but i think there is this component of race that harry addressed even before they were married. >> reporter: something meghan would address in their engagement interview. >> you know, at the end of the day i'm really just proud of who i am where i come from. and we have never put any focus on that. we've just focused on who we are as a couple. >> reporter: some racist coverage played a part, but the relentless aggressive coverage on all aspects of their marriage eventually took its toll. >> unfortunately, there are also certain classes of people who will dehumanize women, who will dehumanize people of color, and meghan ticks off awful tholl of boxes. >> reporter: in october harry announced he was suing the sun and the daily mirror for alleged phone hacking. soon after meghan filed a lawsuit against the mail on sunday and its parent company claiming they illegally published a letter she had written to her father. >> when you continue and constantly see and hear negativity, it can be

overwhelming. you can feel powerless and lost. you can feel different, confused, or like you don't belong. >> reporter: in response harry got personal. "my deepest fear is history repeating itself. i've seen what happens when someone i love is commoditized to the point they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. i lost my mother and now i watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces." harry's late mother diana knew the problems of life in the royal spotlight all too well. in a television interview with panorama in 1995 she described the suffocating nature of being a royal. >> the pressure on us both as a couple with the media was phenomenal. and misunderstood by a great many people. >> reporter: diana was beloved but the public's fascination perhaps fueled by the paparazzi meant she was hounded relentlessly. >> harry doesn't like the press because of what happened to his mother. and who can blame him? but i just think in terms of the press we've done what we've been told. we've stood where we've been

told to stand. we've only taken pictures when they've been in public. and these days there is so much press. there's everything you that see online and on social media. and have horrible things been written about them? absolutely they have. have a lot of fair things been written about them? yes. that's also true. >> reporter: now it seems the couple is trying to take control of their own narrative. their website sussexroyal.com launched after last week's announcement laying out new parameters for press coverage of the couple's engagements. but given the queen's statement today it's unclear just how much of that plan will actually be put into place. these are complex matters for my family to resolve and there's some more work to be done but i've asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days. for "nightline" i'm james longman in london. up next, how amy schumer is breaking free of the stigma of infertility. >> am i still wearing my hat? >> no.

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it is a deeply personal and oftentimes private journey shared by millions of people around the world. the use of in vitro fertilization to conceive a child. now actress amy schumer is getting intimate by going public as she begins ivf treatment. as we follow one couple's own ivf journey from heartbreak to happy ending. here's my "nightline" co-anchor juju chang. >> trust me. she's not going to shock you. she's not going to be like, yes! >> reporter: she's the daring comedian known for her feminist punchlines. on "inside amy schumer." >> have you ever had a one-night

stand? >> yes, i have had a one-night stand. >> i had like a one-afternoon stand. and i couldn't find him. but you know, yankee stadium is so big. rrpts breaking through in the blockbuster film "trainwreck." >> just walk the way you walk down the street. you good? all right. thank you. >> looking pregnant! >> reporter: and recently getting laughs about new motherhood in her netflix special "growing." >> if you had a good pregnancy, and you enjoyed being pregnant, i just hope your car flips over. that's -- >> reporter: now, amy schumer is getting personal about her quest for child number 2, and her struggle with infertility. schumer had a son last may with husband chris fischer, but she recently posted a visceral image of her bruised stomach on instagram writing, "i'm a week into ivf and feeling really run down and emotional." responses to her candid post pouring in from those who've been in her shoes. one woman writing, "ivf is the e hardest thing." others saying "so proud of you for sharing.

so many silent sufferers." >> anytime there's a celebrity with a big platform and they step up to the plate with their personal health issue, it does an enormous amount to increase awareness. at times it can destigmatize an issue. >> reporter: schumer's post putting the spotlight on the often private and rarely discussed journey taken by so many couples desperate to conceive. >> it can be an incredibly lonely, isolating experience. and even though the reality is these women and these couples are not alone it can feel like they are. >> reporter: and it appears she'll continue to document her journey. she wrote this follow-up instagram post. "we're going to freeze embryos hopefully." and there was this one today. as only she can, schumer finding the funny in her ivf journey, posting video of herself waking up from sedation in the recovery room. >> am i still wearing my hat?

>> no. >> pictures that she posted just sort of resonated with people, especially people who go through ivf, because it usually feels very private and secluded and almost isolated, what you're going through. >> reporter: we followed aviva and adam for more than a year as they used ivf to try to grow their family. >> there are a lot more shots than i expected. >> reporter: to the moments inside the doctor's office. >> the phone's ringing. >> reporter: to the call that could change their lives forever. >> hi, dr. ghazi. >> we're a team and we're going through this together. and i might be the one who's getting the shots and walk up early, but he's on my team. he's supporting me. he's, you know, even if he's not going through it physically, he's going through it emotionally. as much as i am. >> it's pretty special what she's going through for us. not just for her. it's for both of us. >> reporter: the couple conceived their son bengie naturally. but when it came to try for baby

number two, adam was devastated to learn he had cancer. >> cancer became focus number one and baby was on the back burner for a while. >> okay, adam, tell us what you're going to do. >> i'm going to hit the gong. >> why are you hitting the gong? >> because i finished chemo. >> reporter: with his cancer in remission ivf became their best chance at being able to conceive again. on this day they're going through an egg retrieval. the first step to creating their embryos. >> one egg. three. six. >> how'd it go? >> she sailed through. >> perfect. >> she's really a trouper. we got 29 eggs. >> reporter: once recovered, it was time for aviva to prepare her body for the next step. >> i'm taking my first tiny little estrogen pill to prepare for embryo transfer. >> looks like a mint.

♪ >> reporter: on the day of her embryo transfer aviva feels the weight of the moment. >> i probably shouldn't but i feel like there's a little more pressure on me. because you know, it's my body. >> okay. so you see that little white spot. it's right in the middle of your uterine cavity. and hopefully we will need it in nine months. >> in a successful cycle she can be pregnant just after the embryo is transferred to her uterus. we usually don't know that until about ten days to two weeks later when the pregnancy test is done. >> the phone's ringing. >> reporter: a few weeks later the couple awaits a call to find out if they're pregnant. >> hi, dr. ghazi. >> how did you know it's me? >> you're on my caller i.d. >> you know, i've been doing this for a very long time and

i've had to give bad news to people and good news to people. but fortunately i don't have to deliver any bad news because you are pregnant. >> that's so great. >> thank you. >> it's only a start. it's the biggest hurdle. but it's not the only one that we have to get through. >> thank you. good night. >> that was a roller coaster. >> reporter: nearly nine weeks later the couple gets news that every potential parent going through ivf dreads. >> the sonogram at eight weeks and five days there was no heartbeat. throughout the process we've tried to be careful and refer to the embryo or the fetus.

the minute they said there was no heartbeat, the only reaction was that was our baby. one of the things that have made this a little easier is having benji. you know, and i know for a lot of women that's not the case. >> reporter: after the miscarriage the couple did not give up. a year and a half later -- >> what's up? >> reporter: -- here's how adam and aviva's family are doing today. >> well, since last time we phoned we went through a successful pregnancy and now we have a beautiful baby girl. and she is almost seven months old. >> reporter: meet juliet rose. the bouncing bundle of joy adam and aviva and benji first conceived of in their dreams. the couple made the decision to undergo a second round of ivf

after their first miscarriage. >> emotionally you feel like you're putting your heart on the line. on the one hand you want to jump ahead and picture yourself with a happy ending and picture yourself with a healthy baby, but on the other hand you're sort of scared. you're sort of scared to give yourself that promise, to give yourself that dream without knowing if you'll ever get it. when they first put juliet on my chest and i held her, it just felt -- it felts very surreal to think we'd finally made it there. >> i didn't -- i think we didn't exhale until she was born, we held her in our arms for the first time, we knew it was over and we'd gotten exactly what we were hoping for. >> reporter: adam and aviva have no regrets on what it took to build their family. >> when i look at her just -- i mean, living with her, all of it, when i think about what we went through, it's all been worth it. >> if we need to, we will certainly do ivf again. even with everything we went through.

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