The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have posted a series of breathtaking aerial Instagram images of two rivers that flow from Angola to Botwana as Prince Harry made his trip to Malawi.
The Duke is set to arrive in Malawi to visit a college on Sunday in the final stop of his solo leg of the southern Africa tour before rejoining wife Meghan and baby Archie in family in South Africa.
The stunning images, posted on the official Instagram page of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, show a birds-eye view of Cuito and Kavango rivers – which flows across 6,000 square miles of land.
‘Looking over the stunning and life-giving Cuito and Kavango rivers last night as The Duke of Sussex flies over Angola on #RoyalVisitAfrica’, the caption read.
The stunning images, posted on the official Instagram page of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, show a birds-eye view of Cuito and Kavango rivers – which flow across 6,000 square miles of land
The Duke of Sussex arrives for an audience at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola on day six of the royal tour
The images, which appeared to have been captured from a plane and which the Instagram page claimed had been taken last night, were actually copyrighted to Getty, NASA and PA.
Alongside the stunning landscape shots, the post said: ‘The flooding gives life to this ever-changing landscape and is an essential water source for over a million people. When it floods, the delta swells to almost three times its size, and brings out some of the most stunning displays in the animal kingdom.
‘Having survived the dry season or a long migration across the savannah, life explodes, with large herds of African elephant, zebra, hippo and buffalo coming to drink, play, splash, and bathe in the clear waters.’
Harry and Meghan have been regularly posting updates on social media about their 10-day tour, which saw them start in Cape Town, before the Duke of Sussex visited Angola, Botswana and Malawi before he rejoins his family in Johannesburg.
Harry is set to visit Nalikule College of Education in Lilongwe on Sunday to learn how schoolgirls are being helped by Cama, an alumni network of young women who have been supported to attend secondary school through help from the Campaign for Female Education.
Harry and Meghan have been regularly posting updates on social media about their 10-day tour, which saw them start in Cape Town, before the Duke of Sussex visited Angola and Botswana and Malawi before rejoining his family inn Johannesburg
The Duke of Sussex left the Duchess and Archie – who stole the spotlight when he sat on his mother’s lap while his parents chatted with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu in Cape Town – to visit Botswana, Angola and Malawi.
While Harry has visited Malawi several times privately, this trip will mark his first visit in an official capacity.
Meghan, a passionate supporter of gender equality, has not travelled with Harry to the African country, but is in nearby South Africa with their baby son Archie.
Despite being seen on the airport on Saturday, there are no official engagements planned for the Duchess in Johannesburg until Tuesday.
The duchess met Sophia Williams-De Bruyn (pictured), who was just 18 when she helped lead a march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against segregation in 1956
A welcome song will be performed for the Duke before he meets with 40 young CAMA women and CAMFED Malawi’s National Director Harold Kuombola where they will hold a discussuion about education and empowering youth.
The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, which has the duke as its president and the duchess as vice-president, has been working with Cama since 2017.
Later, he will attend a Reception hosted by the British High Commissioner to highlight the common links and strengthen the meaningful, modern partnership between the UK and Malawi.
Duke of Sussex will be welcomed by Holly Tett, British High Commissioner to Malawi who will introduce him to High Commission staff and their children.
Guests at the event will be drawn from the worlds of education, wildlife conservation, charity initiatives, business, culture, youth development and the Commonwealth.
Ms Williams-De Bruyn was among the guests at an event to honour South Africa’s female leaders. Also present were politicians Lindiwe Mazibuko – the first non-white leader of the Democratic Alliance party – and Nompendulo Mkhatshwa of the ANC, one of the youngest women ever to serve in Parliament
On Monday among the Duke’s engagements will be a visit to Liwonde National Park to pay tribute to guardsman Mathew Talbot of the Coldstream Guards, who lost his life in May 2019 while on an anti-poaching patrol.
It comes after the Duchess of Sussex met with one of the founding members of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement in Cape Town on Saturday.
Meghan Markle revealed that the ‘countless violations’ against women has ‘weighed heavy on her heart’ and that she was eager to learn about more the situation, she today wrote on the official Instagram page of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The Duchess met Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, who was just 18 when she helped lead a march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against segregation in 1956.
At 81, she is the last surviving of the four leaders of the march. Ms Williams-De Bruyn was among the guests at an event to honour South Africa’s female leaders.
Earlier in the day, Meghan attended the site of the killing to pay tribute to the victim and pass on her condolences to her mother.
Meghan (pictured) tied an orange ribbon around the painted veranda of Clareinch Post Office, where University of Cape Town student Uyinene Mrwetyana was killed on Saturday, August 24
This comes after the royals were met with signs of protest as they visited the Bo-Kaap area in Cape Town earlier on the tour.
The Duchess of Sussex and baby Archie left Cape Town on Saturday and headed to the next stop on their 10-day royal tour, while Prince Harry jetted off to Malawi.
Meghan, 38, and her four-month old son were seen at the International Airport before their scheduled British Airways flight to Johannesburg.
Prince Harry, 35, left Angola on Saturday for the third stop during the solo section of the royal tour, where he will visit young women at a college and meet Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika.
On Tuesday, Meghan is set to attend a round-table discussion with the Association of Commonwealth Universities in Johannesburg.
She will meet academics and students to discuss the challenges faced by young women in accessing Higher Education.
Archie was last seen on Wednesday during tea with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town. During the meeting Meghan said her son would have to get used the cameras in his life
The Duchess looked elegant in an Everlane jumpsuit for the engagement and told the inspiring female entrepreneurs that she is determined to ‘fulfil her heart’s desires’ despite being a member of the Royal Family
The Duchess will then learn about the work of a charity, which receives UK Aid for its work to tackle sexual violence in schools, reports the Telegraph.
In the evening Meghan and Prince Harry will be reunited, after he flies back from Malawi to join his wife and son.
On the final day of the tour the royal pair will be seen together for a visit to a township near Johannesburg to meet with inspiring local youth.
Although Meghan has been making private appearances, her husband Prince Harry has been seen at several official engagements since leaving his wife in Cape Town in both Botswana and Angola.
The Duke met with the President of Angola and learned about pioneering work on the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their babies which is championed by Angola’s First Lady Ana Dias Lourenco.
Uniformed military saluted the Duke of Sussex as he arrived for an audience with leader João Lourenço at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola, on sixth day of his royal tour of Africa.
The Duchess of Sussex and baby Archie, pictured together at Cape Town International Airport today before their scheduled British Airways flight, have travelled to Johannesburg for the next part of the 10-day royal tour
Prince Harry, pictured arriving at Luanda airport before his departure from Angola on Saturday, is set to travel to Malawi, the next stop on his 10-day tour of Africa and the final destination before rejoining his wife and son in South Africa
Harry later visited a hospital to see the HIV project spearheaded by First Lady Lourenco, who he also met yesterday evening during a reception at the British ambassador’s residence.
The Prince spent his time in Angola yesterday visiting the place where his late mother Princess Diana launched an anti-landmine campaign, her last major crusade before her untimely death.
He retraced her footsteps, donning the same protective body armour and visor she did 22 years earlier to detonate a device in a partially-cleared field in Dirico, in the south east of the country.
Harry walked into an area that was once an artillery base for anti-government forces who had mined the position in 2000, during the decades-long civil war that tore the country apart.
The Duke of Sussex also met a landmine victim who famously brought Diana to tears 22 years ago during trip to Angola – as she revealed she named a daughter after the princess.
In Botswana on Thursday Harry hugged a young woman with HIV as he spoke about escaping to Botswana in the wake of his mother’s death.
Ms Thijika (pictured with Diana) described the experience of meeting Princess Diana in 1997 as making her feel ‘complete’
Sandra Thijika, who was pictured sitting on Diana’s knee, described meeting Prince Harry (pictured) as a continuation of a long and beautiful story
In a touching reunion, Harry embraced 20-year-old Tlotlo Moilwa, who lost her mother and father to AIDS when she was four-years-old before testing positive for HIV herself.
The pair met in London two years ago and the Duke clearly recognised Tlotlo as he threw his arms around her.
Earlier in the day, the Prince also gave an impassioned speech backing teenage activist Greta Thunberg as he declared the world was in a state of ’emergency’ and ‘losing’ the battle against climate change.
He had arrived by the banks of Botswana’s Chobe River in the north of the country to take part in a tree-planting project – straining with dozens of people to get a huge sapling into the ground.
Uniformed military saluted the Duke of Sussex as he arrived for an audience with leader João Lourenço at the presidential palace in Luanda, Angola on Saturday – the sixth day of his royal tour of Africa with wife Meghan and baby Archie
The Duke then stressed saving the environment was a race against time, adding: ‘Led by Greta, the world’s children are striking.’
The 10-day official tour will continue in Malawi, with Prince Harry expected to arrive in the capital Lilongwe during the morning and during his first day there will visit Nalikule College of Education.
He will interact with young women who are supported to attend and complete secondary school with the help of UKAid bursaries through the Campaign for Female Education.
After this stop he will meet President Peter Mutharika and in the evening attend a Reception hosted by the British High Commissioner.
The Duke of Sussex helped schoolchildren plant trees at the Chobe Tree Reserve in Botswana, on day four of the tour of Africa