Prince Harry and Meghan share a kiss after Duke stars in charity polo match
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared a kiss for the cameras after Prince Harry played in a charity polo match in Florida on Friday.
The pair were spotted smiling and walking hand in hand – the Duke wore white trousers, a light blue shirt and a beige jacket, while the Duchess sported a cream halterneck dress at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge event in Wellington on Friday.
The Sentebale Polo Cup is held every year in aid of Sentebale, the charity Harry co-founded in 2006 that supports young people and children living in southern Africa.
The Duke captained the Royal Salute Sentebale team against the Grand Champions, led by his good friend Argentinian polo player Nacho Figueras.
Harry was seen playing in the match and sporting his team’s blue and white colours while wearing the number two on his sleeve.
His team won the match 3-1 with the Duke managing to score the opening goal, according to the Associated Press.
Figueras told reporters at the event that he and Harry “joke a lot about who is going to win” and said the Duke is “a very good rider”.
“He’s a very good athlete, he has great eye-hand coordination. He’s very competitive. He’s a very good polo player,” he said.
Harry’s team won both games, in front of the around 300 spectators meaning he received the trophy for winning the mini-tournament and received a kiss on the cheek from Meghan when accepting the award.
Sussexes to bring polo to Netflix
The polo set, wrote Jilly Cooper, were “ritzy, wild, and gloriously promiscuous”, with her 1991 bestseller Polo cementing the sport as the epitome of high society glamour.
More than 30 years on, as a new generation swaps novels for Netflix, the reputation of polo is to get a new lease of life - led by none other than Prince Harry.
The Duke of Sussex is to bring the “sport of kings” to the Netflix-watching masses, promising to “pull the curtain back” on the “grit and passion” of the sport he has played all his adult life.
A new television series, part of a two-programme announcement from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as part of their Netflix deal, will show polo players in training and competition, with “unprecedented access” to the modern generation of professionals.
The programme’s showrunner, Miloš Balać, is known for Welcome to Wrexham, the award-winning documentary series which tracked the fortunes of the local football club under its new Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.
With the help of Prince Harry, Balać is now set to rejuvenate the world of professional polo with the new show, filmed at the US Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Florida.
It will feature Prince Harry on horseback, as well as his friend and fellow player Nacho Figueras.
Ahead of the Sentebale charity polo match in Florida, the Duke joined a panel for a speaking event about “Health, Wealth Inequity, and Climate Challenges Facing Youth in Africa”.
He told an audience: “Africa’s in my heart, and Africa’s in my soul...I wanted to give back to it because it had given me so much.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have recently become a fixture on the American polo scene, often photographed with Figueras and his wife Delphina.
Other members of the Royal family, including the young Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Prince William, are skilled in the sport and have regularly raised money for charity in high-profile exhibition matches.
The polo fields have played a significant part in modern royal history.
The King and Queen, then the young Prince Charles and Camilla Shand, were famously photographed in conversation at the polo in Great Windsor Park several times in the 1970s, before each married, in an era where the sport was central to the social scene.
The relationship between Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, was scrutinised heavily through their many appearances at the polo, with Princes William and Harry growing up on the field.
In 2017, Meghan watched Prince Harry play at Cowarth Park in a sign of the growing seriousness of their relationship. In 2018 she presented a trophy to her new husband, kissing him in front of the cameras.
The new Netflix programme will be made by production company Boardwalk Pictures, with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex among the executive producers.
Another programme announced by Archewell Productions features the Duchess of Sussex and will “celebrate the joys of cooking & gardening, entertaining, and friendship”.
Its showrunner Leah Hariton is best known for Selena + Chef, in which pop star Selena Gomez learned from a guest professional chef in each episode.
It will be directed by Michael Steed, who has previously worked on David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. Both series boasted a roster of A-list guests, including President Barack Obama.
The at-home-style cookery show is expected to tie in with Meghan’s new American Riviera Orchard brand.
Both shows are in the early stages of production, with their titles and release dates due to be announced in the coming months.
