Harry, Meghan release Archie’s photo
LONDON: Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex have released a photograph of their 6-week-old son Archie for Father’s Day.
The sepia-toned photo, posted Sunday on the royal couple’s Instagram feed, shows the baby cradled in Harry’s arms and clutching his father’s finger.
The post is captioned: “Happy Father’s Day! And wishing a very special first Father’s Day to The Duke of Sussex.” The couple posted a picture of the baby’s feet when Mother’s Day was celebrated in the United States last month to mark Meghan’s first as a mum.
The baby hadn’t yet been born when the UK had its Mother’s Day this year.
Archie Harrison Mountbaten-windsor was born on May 6 and is seventh in line to the British throne.
Meanehile, Prince Harry on Monday threw his weight behind mine clearance efforts in Angola, a cause championed by his mother more than two decades ago when she made global headlines by walking through a minefield in the country.
The prince welcomed an announcement that Angola will invest $60 million (47 million pounds) in clearing mines in the southeast of the country under a major conservation initiative in one of the world’s largest wildernesses.
“Let’s not forget, land mines are a humanitarian issue and not a political one,” the Duke of Sussex told a seminar on demining Angola at London’s Chatham House think tank.
He said it was “prety shocking” that funding for demining in Angola had fallen by 90% over the last decade and urged the world not to “leave a job half done”.
Angola’s environment minister, Paula Coelho, told the event the $60 million would be used to clear 153 minefields inside the Mavinga and Luengue-luiana National Parks in Cuando Cubango province, which Prince Harry visited in 2013.
The money will be channeled through the American-british demining charity HALO Trust, which promised that half the 800 new deminers would be women. Speakers at the event said mine clearance would help ecotourism and agriculture to flourish and put Angola back on the map as a travel destination, benefiting local communities.
“Angola has some of the world’s most important remaining wilderness that is critical to biodiversity and an asset that should be protected, celebrated and benefited by its people,” Prince Harry said.