Maria Puente
USA TODAY
Published 9:21 AM EDT Sep 25, 2019
Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry’s royal tour of Africa this week featured a special guest.
Baby Archie came along for his first royal engagement as Prince Harry and Meghan began their day in Cape Town with a visit to meet retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, Nomalizo Leah Shenxane, at their legacy foundation.
Wearing striped blue dungarees from H&M, Archie appeared to be in good spirits during the visit, laughing to his dad in a video posted to Harry and Meghan’s @sussexroyal Instagram account, in which Harry carries Archie and says about Archbishop Tutu, “You get to meet Arch!”
Speaking to Tutu about Archie, per Yahoo and People, Meghan called her son “an old soul” and Harry commented on his comfort around strangers, saying, “I think he is used to it already.
It was Meghan’s first time meeting the Anglican cleric world famous for his anti-apartheid and human-rights activism and the recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.
Harry last met Tutu in 2015, when he presented him with an honor in recognition of his services to U.K. communities and international peace and reconciliation.
After that, the duke and duchess parted ways: Harry will travel on to Botswana, northeast of Cape Town, while Meghan and Archie remain in South Africa, in Cape Town and later in Johannesburg.
On Wednesday afternoon, she visited the Woodstock Exchange to meet female entrepreneurs and investors working in technology and to highlight the benefits of networking between aspiring female entrepreneurs and successful female role models.
On Thursday, she will take part in a private “Women in Public Service” breakfast at the High Commission in Cape Town, to mark the important role played by women in South Africa’s socio-economic and political development.
Meanwhile, Harry will begin his working visit to Botswana on Thursday, travelling first to Chobe Forest Tree Reserve to join schoolchildren in planting trees to raise awareness of the fragility of these ecosystems.
Next, he will pay a visit to a local project run by his children’s charity, Sentebale, which focuses on improving the mental health of young people affected by HIV.
From there, he will travel to Chobe National Park, where he will dedicate an area of forest to the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, helping to link cross-border areas of forests to widen the range of wildlife habitats.
He then will depart for Angola where he will spend Thursday night at a new de-mining camp run by HALO Trust, for which he is royal patron following in the footsteps of his mother, the late Princess Diana.
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