Meghan Markle is a fan of Prince Harry’s speech

After Prince Harry’s quick stop in the United Kingdom to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games, the royal flew to Nigeria, where he met his wife, Meghan Markle, for their first official international tour since the two left their senior positions. securities.

The husband and wife duo made an appearance at the first ever mental health summit organized by GEANCO Foundation at the Lightway Academy in Abuja on Friday. For the event, Markle looked exquisite (as always) in a peach Heidi Merrick maxi dress accessorized with gold earrings and a wooden bead necklace. During the event, Harry and Meghan attended a student dance performance and were introduced to the school’s principal, Joyce Agbese.

Then, Harry gave a meaningful speech about mental health, which prompted Markle to gush — some might even say she was fan-girling — about her husband and his “inspiring” speech, according to People.

“Do you see why I’m married to him?” she teased. “It’s so inspiring because he’s telling the truth.”

Harry opened his poignant speech by asking the children to think about what mental health meant to them. “In some cases around the world, more than you might think, there is a stigma when it comes to mental health,” he said. “Too many people don’t want to talk about it because it’s invisible. It’s something in our minds that we can’t see. It’s not like a broken leg. It’s not like a broken wrist.”

“It’s something we’re still relatively uncertain about.” But guess what? Every person in this room, the youngest, the oldest, every person has mental health,” he continued. “So you have to take care of yourself to be able to take care of others. And others need to be able to take care of themselves, to take care of you. That’s how it works. And there’s no shame in being able to admit that today is a bad day, okay?

When it came time for Markle to take the mic, the Duchess — who recently spoke about her Nigerian heritage — gave her and Harry’s daughter Lilibet a sweet shout-out.

“Each of you has a story. We all have our story. And there is no shame in any of your stories. Even in the hardest or darkest days, everything is a pillar of your strength because of the presence of each of you,” she began. “Your teachers see that in you. And we see it in you. Interestingly, so does our daughter, Lili; she is much smaller than you, she will soon be three years old. A few weeks ago, she looked at me and saw her reflection in my eyes. She said, “Mom, I see myself in you.” Now she was speaking literally, but I clung to those words in a different way. I thought, yes, I see myself in you, and you see me in you. But as I look around this room, I also see myself in all of you. »