Harry goes wild… for a honeymoon in Namibia
IT’S remote, barren and dangerous – yet news reaches me that Prince Harry has his heart set on a honeymoon in Namibia with Meghan Markle. Contrary to reports suggesting that he will whisk Meghan off to the Caribbean after the wedding on May 19, I hear Harry will instead turn to luxury lodge company Natural Selection to organise an adventure in the huge south-west African country.
A source says Harry and Meghan have been advised to use a number of different lodges to keep people guessing about their whereabouts.
One of Natural Selection’s newest attractions is the Hoanib Valley Camp, a four-hour drive by car from the nearest town. The £500-a-night lodge is still being built – but, intriguingly, is due to be completed in May.
The chances of bumping into hordes of camera-wielding tourists will be pretty remote in Namibia.
It is one of the least populated places in the world, home to the highest sand dunes on the planet, and the deepest canyon in Africa.
The indigenous population is the 50,000-strong Himba tribe.
In Namibia, black rhino and desert-adapted giraffe and elephants can all be tracked on foot.
Natural Selection declined to comment last night.
I hear that Meghan’s hen party will be organised by Soho House group’s global membership director Markus Anderson. The group’s 300-year-old stately home Babington House in Somerset has emerged as a favourite to host the event.