Harry and Meghan’s Nigeria tour is nothing but PR fodder

Prince Harry’s visit to London this week, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Invictus games, was largely overshadowed by the news that his father was ‘too busy’ to see his errant younger son. This may have been despite or perhaps because of the King’s more active public profile thanks to his positive response to his cancer treatment.

If the Duke of Sussex was in any way hurt or offended by the snub, he has given no public sign of it. Instead, he has headed down to Nigeria on a 72-hour whistlestop tour to promote his and Meghan’s work on mental health charities, as well as meeting members of the country’s armed forces. Husband and wife were reunited at the appropriately named VIP Windsor Suite at Heathrow, and headed down to Abuja. Here Harry seized the opportunity to enlighten pupils at a school partially funded by the couple’s Archewell foundation with a heartfelt speech about suffering and grief.

Addressing the students of Lightway Academy, Harry declared that ‘in some cases around the world, in more than you would believe, there is a stigma when it comes to mental health.