Is Prince Harry’s Angola Visit a Tribute or a PR Move?

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00:00Prince Harry has travelled to Angola this week to endorse the work of the Halo Trust,

00:05which is the landmining charity he's the patron of.

00:07The visit comes 28 years after his mother, Princess Diana,

00:11famously walked through a minefield in the southern African country,

00:14which had also been cleared by the same charity.

00:18Michael, Prince Harry, following in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana,

00:23what do we know about this particular visit that he's currently on?

00:25So 100% Halo Trust, worthwhile cause, doing great work.

00:31Just last month, they marked the 300th mine that they had cleared in Sri Lanka

00:36as a result of the civil war that that country had gone through.

00:39They've been in Angola trying to clear the mines there.

00:43The estimate is that there are about 1,000 mines that need to be cleared,

00:49the equivalent of 26 square miles.

00:52But it is great work that the Halo Trust does.

00:54As you said, Prince Harry's mother in 1997 was in Angola,

00:59and then in 2019, Prince Harry did the same walk as his mother did.

01:04And now he's back again.

01:06I think, putting my journalist hat on, which means a little bit of the cynicism,

01:10I think that it's a bit of a PR move on his part.

01:15I also think that when you do something that is very much in the same footsteps

01:21as your beloved mother, I think that that's also going to help in the PR world.

01:25I think when you visit an African country,

01:29I think that that slides under the radar so there's not too much attention.

01:33And I also think that that polarizing figure in his life, his wife,

01:38she's not there.

01:39I think that that also adds to maybe him trying to step back into the forefront

01:45of some of the work that he does.