Prince Harry has always gone out of his way to keep the memory of his mother, the late Princess Diana, alive. This includes continuing her humanitarian work, which Harry recently did by setting out on a tour of Angola to recreate the walk that Princess Diana took across an Angola minefield in 1997. This is not the first time Harry has done this, as he previously did it in 2019 and 2024.
Harry has previously called continuing his mother’s work in the region a “responsibility” he takes seriously, and this trip to Angola to raise awareness for Angola’s war recovery with the Halo Trust proves it. “Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school,” he said, regarding the continuing threat of mines to the civilian population. The Halo Trust has cleared 120,000 landmines in Angola that were left over from years of civil war.
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James Cowan, the Halo Trust’s chief executive, said: “We will continue our work in solidarity with the Angolan people until every last mine is cleared.”
As Harry undertook this trip, which included a moving tribute to his mother, one person was conspicuously missing: his wife, Meghan Markle. This is particularly noticeable considering it comes after reports indicated Harry wasn’t very pleased that his wife, As Ever, brand released their first rosé on July 1, which is also Princess Diana’s birthday.
“He told her, ‘Please, not on Mummy’s birthday,’” Rob Shuter reported. “It wasn’t about business — it was about respect.” But Markle, reportedly, did not budge. “He’s devastated,” a source confirmed to the gossip Substack. “That day means everything to him. To see it turned into a PR push hurts.”
So was this part of the reason Meghan Markle wasn’t present in Angola? According to the Daily Mail, it had nothing to do with it. Instead, ongoing security concerns were the reason Prince Harry visited Angola by himself. “The Duke won’t let his wife go to England over security concerns, so there was no chance he’d allow her to go to Angola to walk across landmines,” a source said.
And though his wife and kids did not join him on this Princess Diana tribute, Harry previously told The Telegraph that Prince Archie asked not just about his work in Angola, but requested to see footage of Princess Diana’s walk. “Archie was asking about landmines, so I was talking about how some of these guys were blown up,” Harry told the outlet.
“Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider, so that became the outcome of the story for him,” he added, sharing that Archie “wanted to see videos and photographs of his Grandma Diana out doing her thing for landmines all those years ago. It produced a very interesting conversation between me and him, different to what I thought it would be.”
It was a fitting tribute, even if Harry had to do it all by himself.