Harry and Meghan Markle to visit Social Bite in Edinburgh

Prince Harry and his fiancée Meghan Markle will visit Edinburgh on their first official visit to Scotland next week.

They will visit a social enterprise café and celebrate youth in the Scottish Year of Young People 2018.

Kensington Palace said the couple will meet members of the public and learn more about community organisations during the visit next Tuesday.

Their first stop will be at the Esplanade in front of Edinburgh Castle, where they will be officially welcomed to the city by the Royal Marines Scotland Band and then watch the one o’clock gun being fired inside the castle.

They will then move on to the New Town to visit Social Bite, a social enterprise café that distributes 100,000 items of food and hot drinks to homeless people each year.

They will be the latest in a string of high-profile visitors to Social Bite premises.

Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio stopped for lunch at Social Bite venture Home in Edinburgh’s west end in November 2016 while the Duchess of Cornwall and George Clooney have been to Social Bite’s Rose Street branch.

The couple will round off their visit by attending a reception at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to celebrate youth achievements marking Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018, an initiative that aims to inspire Scotland through its young people.

Youth representatives from various charities and organisations that work with and for young people across the country will be present, and the reception will provide an opportunity for them to talk about their aspirations for the year and the activities that they have been involved in so far.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.