Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Have Arrived in New York City

The Sussexes left their California paradise this week to migrate to the East Coast.

BAZAAR.com can confirm that Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry have arrived in New York City to attend a special event honoring the late activist and former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela.

The couple will be in the city for the U.N. General Assembly to celebrate Nelson Mandela Day on July 18—and the Duke of Sussex will give a speech.

Today, they are also set to hold meetings with ambassadors at the U.N.

The duke and duchess have made human rights activism a priority since they worked as senior royals, and they continue to do so after stepping down from their duties. This Women’s History Month, they offered grants to four leading organizations working to advance gender equity through their nonprofit, Archewell.

Also, as the chief impact officer for mental health start-up BetterUp, Harry advocates for mental health access across the world. And he remains the founder and organizer of the Invictus Games, a multi-sport event for sick or injured military personnel and veterans.

Before meeting Harry, Meghan did charitable work of her own. In 2015, she became a United Nations Women’s Advocate for Women’s Political Participation and Leadership. Then in 2017, she traveled around India with World Vision to meet girls and women being impacted by the stigmatization of menstrual health—a topic she later wrote an essay on for TIME magazine.

A year later, now with Harry, she gave a speech about women’s right to education while on a royal tour in Fiji. And the next year, she wrote empowering messages on bananas to women trying to free themselves of sex work or addiction and spoke on a panel for International Women’s Day at King’s College in London.

Most recently, in April 2021, the duchess hosted a roundtable discussion with members of Girls Inc. and the National Women’s Law Center that gave young girls a platform to speak about the “breadth of challenges their generation is facing at this moment,” per a statement on Archewell’s website.

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