The British and Basotho Royal Courts: Prince Harry in the Kingdom of Lesotho #Lesotho

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It is in Lesotho that H.R.H Prince Harry began on Thursday his 2015 African Royal visit. 
The program includes the inauguration of the newest Children's Centre Mamohato with his friend Prince Seeiso and King Letsie III.
Arriving in Lesotho, the grand-son of Queen Elizabeth II was first granted audience by His Majesty King Letsie III, the Basotho Monarch. After which the British Royal met with his friend, fellow royal and the brother of the Basotho Monarch, Prince Seeiso, aged 49, with whom he founded in 2006 Sentebale the charity which helps vulnerable children in Lesotho, especially those who are HIV positive and / or orphans who lost their parents to the deadly virus.

But the event of the day was the inauguration of Sentebale's newest Children's center named Mamohato a tribute given to the late Queen mother, Queen Mamohato Bereng Seeiso, mother to King Letsie III and Prince Seeiso, it becomes the flagship institution Sentenbale for all its actions with vulnerable children in Lesotho. In the presence of King Letsie III and Prince Seeiso, Harry, who had found out the young Mutsu, gave a very moving speech in which he discussed the death of his mother Diana, whose name was given to the refectory of this new center. "The Mamohato Children's Centre will allow us to reach more children than has previously been possible. We will increase the number of participants in camps from 400 to 1500 per year - representing 29% of our target group of adolescents ",  that towards the end of the ceremony, under a blazing sun, the princes Harry and Seeiso and King Letsie III, each received a gray wool blanket traditionally worn by the Basotho people, in which they wrapped themselves. Which earned Harry that comment on jokingly: "I began to feel it was a bit chilly. Does everyone warm enough? "
Photo Credits: Paris Match/Kensington Palace/Twitter

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