Prince Harry's moving solo trip without Meghan days after 'peace summit' talks
Prince Harry made a moving visit to a location with connections to Princess Diana without Meghan, after his aides held secret "peace summit" with King Charles ' top team last week.
The Duke of Sussex visited an Angolan minefield 28 years after his mother's famous visit to the same country. Harry, as a patron of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, spoke to families in a remote village near Africa's largest minefield on Wednesday. This special trip comes just days after a remarkable meeting between the Harry's and Charles' camps, with senior aides from both sides spotted around a table at a London private members' club.
Prince Harry 's top aides extended an olive branch to the King by expressing the Duke of Sussex's desire to avoid "ambushing" the royals in a attempt to regain regular communication with his cancer-battling father.
Meredith Maines, the chief communications officer for Harry and Charles' communications secretary, Tobyn Andreae, met last Wednesday in London with the estranged Prince wishing for a "roadmap for more regular communication" with his dad.
Sources in the US have told the Mirror that although the summit was informal, it covered several critical issues. These included avoiding undisclosed revelations between LA and the Palace during sensitive periods and coordination to avoid "clashing narratives".
However, his Prince William is still 'deeply wounded' by his brother and has no plans to contact him, a source told the Mirror. The source said: "The Prince of Wales remains deeply wounded by Prince Harry's various allegations in his memoir and endless broadcast interviews over the last few years.
"There are no plans to either make contact with or arrange to see the Duke of Sussex in the near future and regardless of any members of the family seeking reconciliation, that is certainly not on the prince's mind. Both the Prince and Princess of Wales are entirely focussed on their various important duties and their own family."
Prince Harry was on a solo mission as he echoed his late mother on his visit to Angola. A source told the Daily Mail that the Duke of Sussex was taking the trip alone, after he decided it was too dangerous for Meghan Markle to join him. The source told the publication: 'The duke won't let his wife go to England over security concerns, so there was no chance he'd allow her to go to Angola to walk across landmines.'
The source added: "Halo is really his thing, it means so much to him to be patron and he just wants to keep his work with them to himself."
The Duke of Sussex was highlighting the threat of the munitions in the African country, the same nation Diana, Princess of Wales visited in 1997 to urge the world to ban the weapons.
He gave children in Cuito Cuanavale advice on avoiding detonating mines, telling them in Portuguese: "Stop, go back and tell your elders." On Tuesday, he met Angola's President Joao Lourenco and welcomed the leader's intention to continue support for the removal of landmines left from the civil war that ended in 2002.
Months before she died in a car crash, Diana, wearing a protective visor and vest, walked through a minefield being cleared by the Halo Trust. She strode through a cleared path in a Huambo minefield, and the images of her in body armour and a mask gave the anti-landmine campaign global recognition.
Harry, who also echoed Diana in a 2019 visit to an Angolan minefield, said: "Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school. Here in Angola, over three decades later, the remnants of war still threaten lives every day." It is estimated that at least 60,000 people have been killed or injured by landmines in Angola since 2008, the Halo Trust said.
Prince Harry has previously called Africa his "home away from home" but he embarked on his latest trip without Meghan. The Prince himself ruled out his wife's attendance on the landmine walk, which had been planned months ago.
A source in Angola, according to the MailOnline claimed "Harry didn't want Meghan there", partly due to concerns for her safety but also allegedly because he believed the Halo Charity was his "thing".
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