He said: “I will always be part of the Royal family and I’m here working and doing the very thing I was born to do.
“I enjoy doing it. I enjoy being able to do these trips and coming to support the people that I’ve met before, the friends that I’ve made.
“And hopefully bringing attention to issues that for one reason or another drop out of the news because something else has popped up”
Asked by Chris Ship, ITV’s royal editor, whether he felt the “shackles” had been removed after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit as working royals in 2020, he said: “From my perspective, we need to feel empowered to speak truth to power. It’s really that simple.
“It’s bad enough in today’s world feeling gagged and saying that you can’t say these things and can’t say that.
“Everything becomes political. I fundamentally disagree with that.
“What we are witnessing and seeing is a humanitarian catastrophe in multiple parts of the world.
“And people are speaking up and will continue to speak up, and I would encourage more people to do the speaking up.
“Because the vast majority of people want to see an end to these conflicts and an end to this division.”
Earlier this week, he gave a speech in which he told Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, to “stop the war” and urged America to show leadership in supporting Ukraine.
When asked about the speech, Donald Trump, the US president, said: “Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that’s for sure. I think I’m speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.”
King Charles and Queen Camilla are undertaking a state visit to the US next week.
The Duke, asked whether he thought his words would make things hard for his father, said: “No, I don’t think so. Not at all.”
He added: “What I see, what I hear and what I learn is that the vast majority of people, whether in the UK or anywhere else in the world, want to see proper leadership and they want to see an end to these conflicts.”
The Duke of Sussex left the working Royal family in 2020. He has undertaken his own overseas trips to Ukraine, Nigeria, Colombia and Australia.
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