Prince Harry’s ‘livid’ moment during pivotal tour of Africa: Details

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle embarked on an overseas tour to Southern Africa in 2019, which came just before their major fallout with the royal family.

Accompanying the couple and their son, Prince Archie, on that tour was Sky News Royal Editor Rhiannon Mills, who recently opened up about an uncomfortable confrontation with the Duke of Sussex while there.

The royal correspondent stated on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show that as the Duke went to Malawi on a solo detour, leaving Meghan and Archie behind, she interviewed him at the end of one of his engagements.

“It was a terrible question. It was a rubbish question. I just sort of said, ‘oh, why is it so important for you to come here?’,” she recalled.

Upon her query, Rhiannon recounted the Prince looking at her and replying, “oh, well, just go and ask those people over there,” which prompted her to retaliate.

“I said, ‘well, is that why it’s so important for you to come here?’ And then he turned around and just said, ‘Rhiannon, don’t behave like that’,” continued the royal editor.

Afterwards, she remembered the Prince driving off in his car, while she thought that she “looked like an idiot” and he looked “really patronising”.

“Nobody came out of it looking good. Anyway, it all blew up with his team. They were livid,” she added.

Eventually, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s tour to the African continent proved to be a rather pivotal one, as the couple launched a case against one British newspaper for defamation, while they also opened up about various conflicts which were plaguing them at the time.

After Harry’s first ever admission of rift with Prince William and Meghan addressing the difficulties of feeling alone while being a new mother at the time, it was soon announced that the Sussex couple would be stepping down as senior royals, following which they moved to the US and have remained estranged from the UK establishment ever since.