{"id":827502,"date":"2026-03-15T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/827502\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:42:18","slug":"duchess-of-sussex-makes-secret-visit-to-the-national-theatre-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/827502\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess of Sussex makes secret visit to the National Theatre in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The Duchess of Sussex made a secret visit to the National Theatre on Thursday, as she and Prince Harry continued their final round of engagements as senior <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/royal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">royals<\/strong><\/a><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Meghan was shown new virtual reality technology at the theatre&#8217;s Immersive Storytelling Studio that aims to help people &#8220;better connect and empathise with each other as people, regardless of race, age or nationality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess with Nubiya Brandon and her hologram, featured in the National\u2019s exhibition \u2018All Kinds of Limbo\u2019. Credit: Instagram\/SussexRoyal<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">It came hours before <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/topic\/harry-and-meghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">Harry and Meghan<\/strong><\/a> attended the <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2020-03-05\/harry-and-meghan-final-engagements-london\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"_1ATDh\">Endeavour Fund<\/strong><\/a> Awards on Thursday evening to recognise the achievements of wounded, sick and injured service personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Footage also appeared on social media of Meghan visiting a comprehensive school in Dagenham, east London, on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan with Artistic Director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris. Credit: Instagram\/SussexRoyal<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Photos of the duchess&#8217;s trip to the National Theatre were revealed in a post on the official Royal Sussex Instagram on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The post said: &#8220;Yesterday, The Duchess of Sussex, Royal patron of the National Theatre, visited the Immersive Storytelling Studio in London, where emerging technology like Virtual Reality is being used to develop new forms of emotive storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan at the National Theatre. Credit: Instagram\/SussexRoyal<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;Recently, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also visited Stanford University where part of their learning journey included a virtual reality presentation that allows the user to experience life through another person&#8217;s point of view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;The goal of this method of virtual reality is to enable us to better connect and empathise with each other as people, regardless of race, age or nationality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;The Duchess is pictured here with Nubiya Brandon and her hologram, featured in the National&#8217;s exhibition &#8216;All Kinds of Limbo&#8217;, which is currently being presented at the Tate Modern.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Sussex made a secret visit to the National Theatre on Thursday, as she and Prince&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-827502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116233486007438895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}