BREAKING: Prince Harry will be joined by Meghan Markle as he gives keynote speech in UN General Assembly hall for Nelson Mandela Day in NYC next week
- This would mark the couple’s first public appearance together since their low-key appearance at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June
- In 2018, Prince Harry and Meghan met with Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel in Johannesburg
- The tagline for Nelson Mandela Day is ‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are’
- This news comes just after it emerged that Harry’s tell-all memoir that was set to rock the Royal Family has been delayed
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be in New York City next Monday with the prince set to address the United Nations.
The speech, as part of Nelson Mandela Day will see the Duke of Sussex speak in front of an informal General Assembly gathering at the UN.
His speech may refer to the impact of climate change and world hunger.
This year’s Nelson Mandela Day tagline is: ‘Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.’
The duo are said to have been keen to honor Mandela and visited his widow Graça Machel in 2018.
A UN spokesman told DailyMail.com: ‘The South African Mission has confirmed the participation of the Duke and the Duchess at Monday’s commemoration.’
Prince Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, famously met with Mandela in Cape Town in March 1997, just five months before her tragic death.
The couple appeared at the last General Assembly in September 2021. During that visit, the couple didn’t participate in the speeches in the assembly hall.
It would be the first public appearance since last month’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The couple kept a low profile at the event.
Prince Harry and Meghan meet Graca Machel, the widow of the late Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2, 2019
This year will see the 77th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The first was held in London in 1945
The Nelson Mandela Day appearance would be the first public appearance since last month’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations
The prince’s controversial tell-all memoir may be delayed until next year after it failed to appear on a list of upcoming book release.
Sources suggested that the omission of the Duke’s ‘heartfelt’ book from the latest Penguin Random House listings meant that it might not be published this autumn, as previously expected.
The book’s missing status has reportedly raised eyebrows in Royal circles.
The former royal couple pictured at United Nations headquarters in September 2021
Markle exchanging a greeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed
In September 2021, the former royal couple met with a top UN official amid the United Nations General Assembly.
The royals came to UN headquarters to speak with Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. All three appeared later that day at the Global Citizen Live concert in New York’s Central Park.
‘It was a lovely meeting,’ Meghan said as the couple left the UN headquarters back then.
The UN said Mohammed commended the couple’s efforts to promote vaccine equity worldwide and hailed priorities they and the UN share, including climate, women’s economic empowerment, youth engagement and mental health.
Meghan and Harry pressed for vaccine equity during the star-studded, 24-hour concert. It features performances staged in locations from New York to Paris to Lagos, Nigeria, and Seoul, South Korea.
The former Meghan Markle has been involved with the U.N. women’s agency, becoming an ‘advocate for political participation and leadership’ several years ago. Harry visited the children’s agency UNICEF at in New York in 2010.
Earlier this week, Harry and Meghan visited a New York City school, the World Trade Center’s centerpiece tower and the Sept. 11 museum, among other stops in New York.
During that visit, the couple were reported to have been recording footage for the Netflix documentary about their lives in the spotlight.