Prince Harry visits Angola 28 years after Diana's landmine walk
Prince Harry was due to meet President Lourenco of Angola, after landing at Luanda airport on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, he is expected to visit areas where work is being carried out by the Halo Trust, the same landmine clearance charity visited by Diana, Princess of Wales.
Harry, who has been patron of the charity since 2019, is expected to use the visit to highlight his mother's legacy.
The Duchess of Sussex has not joined her husband on the trip. A source told The Daily Mail: '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.'
Diana travelled to Huambo in Angola in January 1997 and was seen walking through a minefield in body armour and a visor.
In 2019, Harry recreated the walk at the age of 35, the same age his mother was when she visited Huambo.
He said at the time: 'It has been an honour to retrace my mother's steps today. I lost her 22 years ago, but the memory of her is with me daily and her legacy lives on.'
Harry added: 'Landmines are an unhealed scar of war. By clearing the landmines we can help this community find peace, and with peace comes opportunity.'
Shortly afterwards Harry and Meghan posted a message on their official Instagram account in honour of the late princess, saying that her work had 'helped change the course of history'.
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When Diana first drew global attention to the issue of landmines, it was a largely neglected cause.
Huambo was one of the bloodiest battlegrounds of Angola's 27-year civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The devastation continued after the ceasefire, thanks to landmines left over from the conflict.
Diana's visit drew criticism. Earl Howe, a junior defence minister, accused the princess of being 'ill informed' and 'a loose cannon that Her Majesty's government did not need'.
However, the visit was to have profound effects. In December that year — just over three months after Diana's death in a car crash — 122 countries signed the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel mines.
An orthopaedic hospital in Angola has been named in her honour.
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