Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to visit Nigeria next month.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be making the journey shortly after Harry, 39, visits the UK to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games.
Celebrations are set to take place at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral on May 8, but it’s expected that the Duke will attend the event solo.
The duo, who quit royal life in 2020 and hightailed it across the pond, were invited to Nigeria by the west African country’s chief of defense staff — its highest ranking military official.
He and Harry struck up a friendship in September after meeting at the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Harry launched the Invictus Games in 2014 as multi-sport Paralympic-styled games for wounded or injured servicemen and veterans.
There, the couple will meet service members and their families, and will participate in traditional cultural practices, according to local media.
Additional details about the pair’s upcoming trip will be released nearer the time.
Nigerian Defense Headquarters are “honored” and “delighted” that the Sussexes have accepted their invitation, local media reports.
It will be their first visit to Nigeria as a couple.
In 2022, the “Suits” alum told her “Archetypes” podcast listeners that she had recently discovered she was “43% Nigerian” after completing an ancestry test.
And at the opening ceremony of last year’s Invictus Games in Germany, Harry made reference to his wife’s heritage.
“Now, I’m not saying we play favorites in our home, but since my wife discovered she is of Nigerian descent, it’s likely to get a little bit more competitive this year,” he said at the time.
Following the news of their upcoming trip to Nigeria, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau published a letter in which he said the visit would “consolidate Nigeria’s strong hold” of the Invictus Games, as well as the “possibility of hosting the event [in] later years.”
Misan Harriman, the couple’s longtime friend and favored photographer, confirmed the news on X by posting a heart and flag emoji, hinting that he may travel with them as their snapper.
The trip will be one of the few overseas tours the pair have done since stepping down as senior members of the royal family.
In January, the duo visited Jamaica for the premiere of the Bob Marley biopic titled “One Love.”
The pair have also ventured out to Canada, the Netherlands and Germany for the Invictus Games.
