Morocco Meghan admits to camera shyness
SHE HAS been a TV actress and in her new Royal role is caught in the glare of the world’s spotlight, but even the Duchess of Sussex is prone to occasional camera shyness, she has admitted.
The surprising confession was made in the ear of a nervous Shetland pony as she and Prince Harry visited Morocco’s Royal Equestrian Club, Dar Essalam, in the capital Rabat yesterday.
They were there to learn more about the country’s developing programme of equine therapy for children with special needs, funded by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, with whom Harry and Meghan were granted an audience.
They watched children, who have benefited from the Equine Assisted Therapy, grooming three Shetland ponies – Caramel, Xina, and Molly.
Has anyone got any carrots... she’s a bit nervous this one. Prince Harry on noticing that Molly the Shetland pony looked a little nervous.
“Has anyone got any carrots?” joked Harry, noticing that Molly was shaking. “She’s a bit nervous, this one,” he said. Meghan, who is heavily pregnant, joked: “Well, we all get a little camera shy, I understand.” The couple met Ekram, 20, who has Down Syndrome, and began riding at the club a month ago. Speaking through a translator, the rider told them: “I love the connection with the horses, it already makes me feel relaxed.” Harry used the tour to urge firms to end the manufacture of singleuse plastic bottles. “You need to put more pressure on the big companies,” he told Youssef Chaqor, boss of a Moroccan firm that recycles household products and cooking oil. Harry said the problem of avoidable waste “needed to be tackled at its source”.