{"id":2387760,"date":"2026-04-24T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2387760"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:18:08","slug":"i-will-always-be-part-of-the-royal-family-harry-says-during-ukraine-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/i-will-always-be-part-of-the-royal-family-harry-says-during-ukraine-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I will always be part of the royal family\u2019, Harry says during Ukraine visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-1ihz57b-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"independent\">\n<div data-theme-wrapper=\"independent\" style=\"display:contents\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM cLEJmn\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM iTZFOX\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM iGYpOF\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/morningHeadlines1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morning Headlines\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex has said he will always be part of the royal family during his surprise visit to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>, adding he is in the war-torn country \u201cdoing the very thing that I was born to do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s comments come after he delivered an impassioned speech at the Kyiv Security Forum on Thursday in which he appealed to Russian President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> to \u201cstop this war\u201d and urged \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/american\">American<\/a> leadership\u201d to honour its obligations in the Ukrainian conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The duke, who served on two frontline tours to Afghanistan, also said he was \u201cnot here as a politician\u201d but as \u201ca soldier who understands service\u201d and a \u201chumanitarian\u201d, echoing remarks made by his late mother <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/diana\">Diana<\/a>, Princess of Wales in 1997 during a trip to Angola.<\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine on Friday, Harry told ITV News he does not recognise the description of himself as \u201cnot a working royal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI will always be part of the royal family and I\u2019m here working and doing the very thing that I was born to do, and I enjoy doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy being able to do these trips and come and support the people that I\u2019ve met before, the friends that I\u2019ve made, and hopefully bringing attention to issues that for one reason or another drop out of the news because something else has popped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s trip comes just days before his father the King begins a major state visit to America to see President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, against the backdrop of transatlantic tensions over the Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he believes any of the comments he has made during his time in Ukraine will impact the state visit, he said: \u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The duke also referred to his mother\u2019s trip to Angola in 1997 to campaign against landmines.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit, Diana said: \u201cI am not a political figure. I am a humanitarian figure and always have been and always will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Harry told ITV News: \u201cIt\u2019s very, very sad because nearly 30 years ago since my mother was in Angola here we are again in a new conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a rare input on global matters from the duke when he implored the US to \u201chonour its international treaty obligations\u201d in its \u201cenduring role in global security\u201d during his speech in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Mr Trump said: \u201cI know one thing, Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK, that\u2019s for sure. I think I am speaking for the UK more than Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I appreciate his advice very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Harry has said people need to \u201cspeak up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He told ITV News: \u201cAs a global community we need to feel empowered to be able to speak truth to power. It\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough in today\u2019s world feeling gagged and saying that you can\u2019t say these things and can\u2019t say that and everything becomes political. I fundamentally disagree with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are witnessing and what we are seeing is a humanitarian catastrophe in multiple parts of the world and people are speaking up and people will continue to speak up and I would encourage more people to do the speaking up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s unannounced visit \u2013 his third trip to Ukraine since the war began in 2022 \u2013 comes days after he finished a tour to Australia with his wife, the Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped in the UK on his journey to Ukraine, but only to transit through and he did not leave airside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Duke of Sussex has said he will always be part of the royal family during his surprise visit to Ukraine, adding he is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2387761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/\u2018I-will-always-be-part-of-the-royal-family-Harry.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387762,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387760\/revisions\/2387762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}