Their first journey to Nigeria collectively may need been known as a mini royal tour, however for the incontrovertible fact that Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, haven’t been “working royals” for a couple of years.
The couple — now California residents — acquired a heat welcome to the large African nation on Friday. They have been gifted conventional Nigerian necklaces of wood beads and then handled to a dance routine by college students at their first cease, the Lightway Academy in the sprawling capital metropolis of Abuja.
There, Harry addressed one in all his largest causes: psychological well being.
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“If you take anything away from today, just know that mental health affects every single person,” he informed the college students. “The more you talk about it, the more you can kick stigma away.”
Their visit to the West African nation takes on added which means for Meghan, who not way back mentioned on her Archetypes podcast {that a} family tree take a look at had revealed she’s “43% Nigerian.” The couple have each referenced her Nigerian descent since that revelation, and Meghan voiced her hope to “dig deeper” into her roots.
“My daughter Lili looked at me and said she could see her reflection in my eyes, and said, ‘Mama, I see me in you and you in me,'” she informed the college students in Abuja on Friday.
“As I look around this room, I see myself in all of you as well,” she added, drawing a spherical of applause from the crowd.
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Harry and Meghan are in Nigeria at the invitation of the nation’s navy, visiting to debate the future work of the prince’s Invictus Games Foundation. The charity helps wounded servicemembers and veterans by sport. Nigeria has an identical program and collaborates with Invictus.
The visit to Africa comes simply days after Prince Harry was in London — on his personal — to mark the tenth anniversary of the Invictus Games. The cease in his previous hometown prompted a flurry of hypothesis a few attainable reconciliation with the remainder of his royal household in Britain.
But it wasn’t to be. He neither met with his brother, Prince William, nor his father, King Charles III.
At one level, the father and son have been a mere two miles from one another, attending separate occasions. According to a press release from the Duke of Sussex, a gathering was sadly not attainable as a consequence of “his Majesty’s full program” on the day. It added that Harry hoped to see his father once more quickly.
King Charles is presently present process therapy for an undisclosed type of most cancers, however he has resumed some of his public duties, saying this week that he’d, “been allowed out of his cage.”
Harry and Meghan have been to wrap up their Nigerian tour on Sunday, following a cultural reception and charity polo match for wounded conflict veterans.
