Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tour Nigeria in an unofficial Royal visit after being invited by the country’s government to take part in ‘cultural activities’.
The Duke of Sussex, 39, will fly to the west African country to join Meghan just days after his return to Britain for the Invictus Games 10th anniversary in his first visit to the UK since Kate Middleton revealed her cancer diagnosis. The couple have been invited to Nigeria by the country’s chief of defence staff, who met Harry in Germany last September at the Invictus Games Dusseldorf.
They will meet service members and their families and participate in ‘traditional cultural activities’, according to Nigerian media. The Sussexes quit the UK and moved to America when they stepped down as working royals in January 2020. Harry and Meghan’s acceptance of the invitation – their first visit to Nigeria as a couple – is said to have left the country’s defence headquarters feeling ‘honoured’ and ‘delighted’, according to local newspaper reports.
Meghan, 42, revealed in 2022 she found out she is 43 per cent Nigerian after doing a genealogy test ‘a couple years ago’. Speaking on her podcast Archetypes to Nigerian-American comedian Ziwe Fumudoh she said: ‘I’m going to start to dig deeper into all this because anybody that I’ve told, especially Nigerian women, are like ‘What!” The visit will come days after Harry flies to Britain for the Invictus Games 10th anniversary.
