Prince Harry lost his patronages when he left the royal house, but there are personal projects that he is not willing to abandon. Always has claimed its vocation of serviceeven though he does not represent the Crown, and his latest steps point absolutely in that direction. One of those causes to which he has remained linked for 16 years is WellChild, the organization that supports sick children and their families, which has taken him to London almost five months after his last visit. He has done it again alone and with his sights set on his next international trip, also deeply linked to one of those projects with which he also intends to honor the memory of his mother.
The WellChild awards ceremony was held at the central Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, just over 3 kilometers from Buckingham Palace, but, as happened on his previous visit to the British capital on the occasion of the mass for the tenth anniversary of the Invictus games, no visit to the royal family is expected, as announced People. His father, Charles III, is at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, but his brother Prince William and Kate Middleton are at their Anmer Hall residence in Windsor. The two brothers have not seen eye to eye since their tense meeting at the funeral of his uncle Lord Robert Fellowes a month ago.
© GTRESYour participation in the awards ceremony, although it is common -except for the years in which the pandemic limited these types of acts- is especially pertinent at this time. In recent months, Harry and Meghan have shaped their new position outside the royal house, establishing themselves as a kind of global leaders and philanthropists, allowing them to exert unofficial influence, that is, with fewer restraints. His trip to London comes after his busy agenda with New York within the framework of the United Nations General Assembly that took him to rub shoulders again with royalslike Matilda of Belgiumwith whom he coincided at a dinner organized by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is a new step in tailor-made diplomacy which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex seem to have created and consolidated on their international trips to Nigeria and Colombia. The next stop will be Lesotho, where it is still unknown if Meghan Markle will also go. Just as in her visit to the Latin American country she was the true protagonist, the next trip is especially important for Harry and the memory of his mother Diana of Wales will be more present than ever. At the beginning of October he will move to Lesotho, where he will return after six years and two decades after his first visit, having recently graduated from Eton and before beginning his military training.
Two years after that first visit that marked him so much and where he met Prince Seeiso, with whom he established a friendship that still lasts, he founded the Sentenbale organization with him. The objective was to fight HIV and the poverty that is ravaging the country, thus continuing one of Princess Diana’s great commitments. Now Seeiso has confirmed the return to his country of Mohale (as he affectionately calls the Duke of Sussex in his language) to promote and expand the challenges and achievements of the Foundation 20 years later.
