Prince Harry surprises with a public declaration of love
The royal honored Nelson Mandela's life's work with an emotional speech.
But Prince Harry also lost personal words about his wife.
With a speech at the United Nations, Prince Harry honored the South African president and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013. In front of the UN General Assembly on Monday in New York, the Royal spoke of a painful decade in which humanity is currently finding itself. He listed the pandemic, climate change, the Ukraine war and restrictions on abortion rights in the US. “We are witnessing a global attack on democracy and freedom, the cause of Mandela’s life,” said the 37-year-old.
The world is at a “decisive moment”: “We can become apathetic, succumb to anger or give in to despair and surrender to the gravity of what we are dealing with. Or we can do what Mandela did every day “, namely finding purpose and meaning in the fight against these attacks. “We can wear our principles as armor.” Harry recalled that Mandela urged his son never to give up, even in the “darkest hour”.
Holding hands with his wife Meghan
The Duke of Sussex got personal, describing the continent of Africa as his lifeline, “a place where I’ve always found peace and healing.” Like after the accidental death of Princess Diana, who was closely associated with Africa and Mandela. “This is where I felt closest to my mother and sought comfort after she passed,” revealed Prince Harry.
Africa also has a special meaning for him and Duchess Meghan. Just a few weeks after they first met in 2016, the British royal invited the American to come to Botswana with him. It was the place “where I knew that I had found a soul mate in my wife,” Harry looked back on this time in his UN speech and made Meghan a public declaration of love.
The 40-year-old had accompanied her husband to New York and had not left his side. The couple held hands on arrival at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. During Harry’s speech in the Assembly Hall, the former actress was hanging on her husband’s every word.
The couple had been invited by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The annual Nelson Mandela International Day event honors the memory of the freedom fighter. After decades in captivity under racist apartheid, Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994. His commitment to peaceful resistance made “Madiba” one of the world’s outstanding fighters against oppression and social injustice.
