に引き続いて in his mother's footsteps: How Harry is continuing the 'unfinished' work of Princess Diana with 王室の-style 小旅行する of Nigeria 34 years after iconic moment where she held 手渡す of leprosy 患者 during visit to Maiduguri hospital

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Prince Harry's 小旅行する of Nigeria with his wife Meghan Markle comes 34 years after Princess Diana visited the country with Prince Charles.

支援する then, the Princess of むちの跡s 陳列する，発揮するd the 親切 which she became famous for when she held the 手渡す of a leprosy 患者 as her husband 最初 stood by awkwardly.

Today, after his and Meghan's arrival in Abuja, Harry evoked memories of his 苦しむing に引き続いて his mother's death when he spoke to a group of school children.

The Duke of Sussex, who was 12 when Diana was killed in a car 衝突，墜落 in Paris in 1997, told the pupils there is 'no shame to be able to 認める that today is a bad day.'

His and Meghan's visit will be seen by the Duke as another 成果／努力 to continue his mother's 'unfinished' work.

He said in 2022 that he felt 'obligated' to live out her 遺産／遺物 'as much as possible'.

Charles and Diana's five-day trip to Nigeria （機の）カム just two years before they separated -?and the 緊張s behind the scenes were etched on their 直面するs.?

The visit was remembered for their 大部分は separate 約束／交戦s and their few ぎこちない 共同の 外見s.

However, when the then Prince Charles and the Princess of むちの跡s?arrived in Lagos on March 15, 1990, thousands of fans welcomed them with 元気づけるs and 旗s.

Diana looked resplendent in a 一連の dresses by designers Catherine Walker and Paul Costelloe as she characteristically attracted much of the limelight.?

Charles and Diana were 深く，強烈に moved when they visited 患者s afflicted with leprosy at a hospital and rehabilitation village in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria in what was one of their few 共同の 約束／交戦s in the country.?

One 患者, 指名するd Lucky, beamed when the princess held his 手渡す in hers as he lay in his bed.

Diana went on to do the same to several other children, showing the 親切 which she had become so famous for.

Charles 最初 looked more 用心深い and had his 手渡すs clasped behind his 支援する but he 結局 followed the lead of his wife by 肉体的に reaching out.?

After the trip, Diana was made patron of the Leprosy 使節団 in Britain.?

In a podcast interview in 2022, Harry told former rugby player Gareth Thomas: 'I think once you get to 会合，会う people and you see the 苦しむing around the world, you can't turn, I certainly can't turn, my 支援する on that.

'Then 追加する in the fact that my mum's work was unfinished, I feel obligated to try and continue that as much as possible.'

He 追加するd: 'I could never fill her shoes, 特に in this particular space because of what she did and what she stood for and how 声の she was about this 問題／発行する.'

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex started their three-day visit today by 会合 公式の／役人s and children at?the Wuse Lightway 学院.

The couple flew in just before 5am after 内密に 会合 at Heathrow Airport's VIP Windsor 控訴. Meghan had arrived there from Los Angeles.

They then boarded a British 航空路s 夜通し flight to Abuja, which was 延期するd when the scheduled 操縦する fell ill and had to be 取って代わるd.?

The Duke told pupils: 'In some 事例／患者s around the world, in more than you would believe, there is a stigma when it comes to mental health.

'Too many people don't want to talk about it, because it's invisible - something in your mind that you can't see. It's not like a broken 脚, it's not like a broken wrist, it's something we are still 比較して 自信のない of.

'But guess what? Every 選び出す／独身 person in this room - the youngest, the oldest - every 選び出す／独身 person has mental health.'

He said that people had to 'look after yourselves to be able to look after other people, and other people have to be able to look after themselves to be able to look after you', 追加するing: 'That's the way it 作品.'

The Duke continued: 'And there is no shame to be able to 認める that today is a bad day, 承認する? That you woke up this morning feeling sad; that you were at school, feeling 強調する／ストレスd; that you've lost a loved one in your family and you don't know who to turn to or who to speak to.?

'All of these things you may even be led to believe are not for conversation.'

He said the Sussexes were 'here today to tell you that that is not the 事例／患者'.

Harry continued: 'Every 選び出す／独身 one of those things i s 完全に normal, it is a human reaction, whether it's grief, 強調する／ストレス, whatever the feeling is.?

'It comes from an experience that you have had - you can have it, she (Meghan) can have it, I can have it. They can have it. Every 選び出す／独身 one of us is likely to have it on any given day.

'So if you take anything away from today, just know that mental health 影響する／感情s every 選び出す／独身 person.'

The Duke is also 始める，決める to 会合，会う 負傷させるd service members at a 軍の hospital and he and Meghan will …に出席する a training 開会／開廷／会期 for?charity organisation Nigeria: Unconquered, which 共同製作するs with the Invictus Games.

They will also …に出席する a 歓迎会 where 軍の families will be honoured.?

Meghan is then 予定 to co-host an event of Women in Leadership with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World 貿易（する） Organisation.

On Sunday the couple will 飛行機で行く to Lagos f or the second part of visit where they will …に出席する a basketball （軍の）野営地，陣営 with the charity 巨大（な）s of Africa, a cultural 歓迎会 and a polo fundraiser for Nigeria: Unconquered.

Harry and Meghan's visit 持つ／拘留するs personal significance for them both.

For the Duke, it 許すs him その上の 上げる the Invictus Games, the 冒険的な tournament he 設立するd for 負傷させるd servicemen, women and 退役軍人s.

Nigeria competed in the event for the first time last September.?

As for Meghan, she 発表するd in 2022 that a genealogy 実験（する） showed she was '43 per cent Nigerian.?

During Charles and Diana's trip, Diana showed her warm 味方する again?when she 選ぶd up the four-year-old daughter of the Shehu, the 地元の 長，指導者.?

The 王室の couple were also 扱う／治療するd to a 陳列する，発揮する of 伝統的な dancing in Enugu, southern Nigeria.

The 1990 visit was Diana's first time in the country. Charles had been as a young boy in 1956, when he …を伴ってd his mother Queen Elizabeth II on her 王室の 小旅行する.

He has been 支援する three times since, in 1999, 2006 and 2018.?