When Harry – and Meghan – met the U.N. chief in New York By Reuters

By Michelle Nichols and Daphne Psaledakis

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited the United Nations in New York on Saturday to fulfill with Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres throughout the 193-member world physique’s annual gathering of leaders.

“It was a stunning assembly,” Markle advised reporters because the couple left U.N. headquarters.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in New York to attend the International Citizen Reside live performance in Central Park in a while Saturday, which goals to push for higher motion to fight local weather change and urge wealthy nations to share one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines with nations most in want.

On Thursday, the 37-year-old prince and Meghan, 40, visited town’s memorial for the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults on the World Commerce Middle. They had been accompanied by New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Metropolis Mayor Invoice de Blasio.

The couple stop their royal duties final yr to construct an impartial life and moved from Britain to California, the place they dwell with their two kids – two-year-old Archie and Lilibet, who was born in June.

They’ve launched their Archewell Basis in addition to reducing profitable offers for producing TV reveals and a podcast. Final week the couple graced the quilt of Time journal’s annual 100 most influential folks on the earth concern.

World leaders returned to the United Nations over the previous week with a give attention to boosting efforts to combat each local weather change and COVID-19. Final yr leaders despatched video statements for the annual high-level U.N. Common Meeting as a substitute of touring to New York amid the pandemic.

Guterres additionally met with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands on Thursday. She is Guterres’s Particular Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Improvement.