Prince Harry opens up during emotional speech alongside Meghan Markle in Nigeria

He said: "There is no shame to be able to acknowledge that today is a bad day.

"That you woke up this morning feeling sad, that you left school feeling stressed.

"That you have lost a loved one in your family and you don't know who to turn to or who to speak to.

"All of these things, you may have been led to believe, are not for conversation.

"We are here to tell you today that is not the case."

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in Nigeria in the early hours of Friday morning after flying to Abuja from London.

The royal couple boarded an overnight British Airways flight from Heathrow Airport to Nigeria.

Meghan and Harry were seated in the first-class section of the plane and were kept apart from other passengers by a curtain, according to the Mail.

The Duke of Sussex spent just two days in London before flying to Abuja.

Harry did not see any senior members of the Royal Family during his time in the UK.

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The Sussexes have been invited to Nigeria by the country's chief of defence staff to take part in cultural activities.

Meghan and Harry will meet service members and their families as they participate in the activities.

The Duchess of Sussex revealed in 2022 that she is 43 per cent Nigerian which she discovered after doing a genealogy test.

She said on her Archetypes podcast: "I'm going to start to dig deeper into all this because anybody that I've told, especially Nigerian women, are like 'What!'"