During his appearance at the UN General Assembly today, Prince Harry is anticipated to discuss Nelson Mandela’s legacy.
During the two-hour meeting, it is also believed that the Duke of Sussex would give a speech to the participants on poverty and climate change.
On Monday in New York City, the 37-year-old will give the opening remarks at a United Nations gathering.
His statements “will centre around the memories and legacy of Mandela and what has been learned from his battle and his life that can assist up to meet the current challenges in the world today,” South Africa’s UN Mission stated on Friday.
A mission ambassador added that issues like racial prejudice, the gap between the rich and the poor, poverty, and food insecurity are still present in the world today.
The programme for Nelson Mandela International Day was formally unveiled on Friday by General Assembly spokesman Paulina Kubiak.
Participants include Assembly President Abdulla Shahid, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and Guinea’s Foreign Minister Morissanda Kouaté. Harry is presenting the keynote address.
The General Assembly declared July 18—Mandela’s birthday—as a worldwide day in his honour, encouraging people to participate in community service projects as well as commemorate his life and achievements.
The 2020 UN Nelson Mendela Prize will be given to Dr. Morissanda Kouyaté of Guinea and Mrs. Marianna V. Vardinoyannis of Greece during the ceremony, which gets underway at 10 a.m. EST.
This award, which honours individuals who have committed their life to serving humanity, is given out every five years.
The Duchess of Sussex, Harry’s wife, will be by his side as he speaks at the U.N.
Before she wed the prince in 2015, the former actress participated at a session at the UN’s main office that was hosted by UN Women.
The pair left their position as senior members of the royal family in January 2020 and relocated to Southern California, the duchess’ home state, where they still reside with their two children.
On their final official trip together as a family before they stepped down from their royal duties, Harry and Meghan travelled to South Africa in 2019 with their son, Archie.
Just five months before she was killed in a car accident in Paris, Harry’s mother, the late Princess Diana, met Mandela in March 1997.
His address comes just after a shocking new book revealed that his Eton friends thought he was “f***ing nuts” for courting Meghan.
Harry invited Meghan to join him at Sandringham for his weekend shoot in 2016, according to journalist and author Tom Bower of “Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the conflict between the Windsors.”
They had just recently made their connection known to the public when the Prince reportedly asked 16 pals to spend the weekend with him.
Most of them were former classmates from Eton who now work for large financial institutions and auction houses and who joined him for lunch, dinner, and shooting with the Queen’s approval.
In contrast to Meghan, 40, who allegedly “challenged every guest” who “contravened her woke views,” Bower believes the Duke of Sussex was looking forward to a weekend of “endless banter” with his friends.
Bower claims in his new book that Meghan “lacked any sense of humour” and was a “dampener on the party” according to The Times newspaper.
In addition, Bower stated that Meghan “reprimanded them for their jokes on sexism, feminism, and transgender people,” with Harry having “not anticipated” Meghan’s response.
She had no sense of humour, he noted in his writing. After Sunday lunch, while we were on route home, texts began to buzz between our automobiles. “OMG, what about HER?” one of them read. Harry must be really insane.
According to Bower, “none was exempt” as Meghan “reprimanded guests” for even the “tiniest incorrect comment.”
The allegations follow information that Meghan “phoned her PR team in hysterics” following Buckingham Palace’s “fury” in response to “her Vanity Fair interview about Prince Harry.”
When approached to appear on the cover and conduct an interview for Vanity Fair’s September 2017 issue, Bower said Meghan was “ecstatic.”
Bower claims that the Palace was shocked when the magazine’s cover featured the headline “Wild About Harry,” emphasising Meghan’s romance with the British royal rather than her career as an actor, activist, and philanthropist.
Within hours of the magazine’s advance copies being delivered to Buckingham Palace, according to Bower, Meghan called her PR company and ‘hysterically’ described the Palace’s outrage.
Bower claims that Meghan was incensed that the article did not emphasise her generosity more, but she claims that this was because Vanity Fair researchers were unable to verify two important claims she had made regarding her activism as a young girl.
She was asked about Harry after talking about Meghan’s address at the UN and a letter she wrote to Procter & Gamble when she was 11 years old asking them to remove a tagline advertising washing-up liquid that was thought sexist.
Meghan reportedly stated, “We’re a couple,” as quoted by Vanity Fair in 2017. We are smitten.
I’m sure there will be a moment when we have to introduce ourselves and have experiences to share, but I’m hoping people will see that this is our time.
These are for us. The fact that it is uniquely ours contributes to its uniqueness. But we’re content. Personally, I enjoy a good love tale.