The Duke and Duchess of Sussex walked a political tightrope during their two-day visit to Jordan. They were attached to WHO, and I get the feeling that WHO dictated the arrangements of where Prince Harry and Meghan went and who they met with. Prince Harry ended up making a few official statements, mostly calling for more humanitarian aid for refugees. He tried (successfully) to keep the focus purely on the humanitarian disaster which has been unfolding for years, not just with Gaza but with the years-long influx of Syrian refugees who fled the Assad regime.
On Thursday, Harry went on camera with Channel 4 News. The reporter said to him (on camera) that he knows that Harry doesn’t want to comment on Prince Andrew whatsoever, and the reporter also pointed out (earlier in the segment) that Harry knows if he said anything about Andrew, that would be the story rather than what Jordan and the international aid agencies are doing for the refugees. Harry called on Israel to open up aid corridors, saying: “the aid corridors need to be opened and they are currently not… [there is a need for] full access for humanitarian organisations to be able to deliver that aid to the people that need it the most… It was a really important time for us to collaborate and come here and shine a light and focus on the very real humanitarian catastrophe that has happened and continues.”
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The whole video is worth watching, but if you skim ahead to the 7:30-mark, that’s when the interview with Harry begins. I’m already seeing some royal reporters cry about why Harry didn’t say anything about Andrew. Again, he’s already said what he needed to say about Andrew years ago. The institution’s protection of Andrew is one of the reasons why Harry and Meghan left Salt Island.
Screencaps courtesy of Channel 4 News YouTube video. Additional photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (right) attend a World Health Organisation roundtable with key donors and humanitarian partners in Amman, Jordan. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Amman, Jordan When: 25 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex attends a World Health Organisation roundtable with key donors and humanitarian partners in Amman, Jordan. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, Jordan When: 25 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex listen to a music class during a visit to the QuestScope Youth Center at the Za’atari refugee camp, home to displaced Syrians, near Mafraq in northern Jordan. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Mafraq, Jordan When: 25 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit the World Central Kitchen Food (WCK), at the Jordan Country Office, in Amman, Jordan. The WCK operates a crucial logistics hub in Amman, to coordinate aid for Gaza, including the deployment of mobile bakeries that produce hundreds of thousands of daily loaves Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, United Kingdom When: 26 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
He is entirely correct, and it is about time that someone with his profile on the world stage said it.
Yes. He is correct. The aid corridors need to be open. It’s unbelievable that they are not and that they have been not for quite a while. It’s infuriating.
BTW …. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is a truly great man. If you haven’t read about him he’s been featured in several documentaries & books.
His work with Ebola, HIV, improving African water infrastructure etc etc ad infinitum. His whole life has been devoted to improving African’s lives
Honestly…. I didn’t know this. WTF? Harry is right..open the aid corridors now and get these people some food and medical supplies.
Exactly. And that’s exactly why WHO’s Dr Tedros invited them on this trip. Raise the profile of Jordan and aid organizations. And raise more needed money. And raise awareness of the situation on the ground. Advocacy. Would Channel 4 News even be there, or be viewing the same medical cases, or hearing about closed access without the Sussexes making the trip?
It makes no sense to have international aid available and it can’t get to the people who need it.
How great of Harry to use his celeb clout for issues like this!
All of a sudden Harry and Meghan are members of the Royal Family and the royal rota are calling on them to speak out about Andrew. Anyway it’s good that Harry is speaking out about Gaza. Most definitely, if he was still a working royal he would be prohibited from doing this.
This is actually pretty significant from him because unfortunately allies of Israel have made saying this basic thing a contentious and political issue. I was curious if they’d actually go there because in many ways theyre both constrained in how they talk about what is Gaza, which tbh is very frustrating to me at times, but im glad that Harry said this and he said it on camera. The fact that it comes after he and Meghan have spent 2 days on the ground in Jordan and visited with refugees and they have the track record they do of supporting humanitarian missions in Gaza gives this more weight as well.
Prince Harry is quite right about this. Bravo for saying this.