Prince Harry writes foreword to new book in surprising move | Royal | News
Prince Harry wrote the foreword to his new book (Image: Getty)
Prince Harry talked about his “second home” in the foreword he wrote to his new book, which will be on the shelves soon.
The Duke of Sussex shared his thoughts on Africa in Steve Boyes’ book, The Okavango and the Source of Life: Discovering Africa’s Lost Headwaters, to be published on March 3. The book follows the National Geographic explorer as he leads the Okavango Wildlife Project in Africa.
The book’s synopsis says it features more than 100 photographs and maps of “the primitive wilderness still thriving on the planet” and offers a look at “the courage of explorers determined to preserve it.”
Prince Harry has spoken many times about his love for Africa.
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Prince Harry walks through a minefield in Angola in 2019 (Image: Getty)
He has also been a long-time supporter of the HALO Trust, a UK-based charity that clears and manages explosives around the world, following in the footsteps of his late mother, Princess Diana.
The duke has also visited Africa multiple times with his wife, Meghan Markle. It was Botswana that they both went to for their third meeting in 2016.
In the foreword of his new book, he said: People “There are some places in the world that are so vast, beautiful and vibrant that they truly open your eyes and your mind,” Duke writes in magazine.
“The Okavango Delta is one of these places, a mysterious wetland lost in the Kalahari Desert and home to the world’s largest remaining population of elephants – a wilderness beyond compare.
“This paradise has been my second home for over 25 years, a place to escape and be enveloped in the sheer magnificence of nature.”
Elsewhere, speaking of her mother, she says: “In 1997, in Huambo, Angola, just a few miles from one of the headwaters of the Okavango, my mother was walking through a live minefield that was being cleared by the HALO Trust, a humanitarian landmine clearance charity.
“That famous march was a turning point in the fight against these lethal devices.”
He added: “As wildfires rage and hurricanes devastate peninsulas, we face a harsh reality: a climate crisis and a mass extinction that can no longer be ignored. Appreciating, preserving and protecting these last wild ecosystems is crucial to our collective survival. The best way to understand where we have come from and where we need to go is to visit places like the Okavango Delta, my source of life.”
In a panel discussion at Zaytinya, the South Beach restaurant at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in 2024, Harry said about Africa:
“Africa is in my heart, Africa is in my soul. I went there for the first time when I was 12, 13, and after all these years, I wanted to return to it because it gave me so much.
“The wide open space, the cultures, the community, the people, the wildlife, just the freedom was a big part of why I loved Africa so much.”
