Harry hopes Diana would be ‘proud’ of Africa charity work

Harry mentioned his late mother as he gave a speech at a gala dinner at the Summer Place in Johannesburg, South Africa, after spending three days in neighbouring Lesotho where his organisation works to help disadvantaged children. The royal hopes to raise £2.5m to build the Mamohato Centre, which will expand the charity’s service of providing psychological care and peer mentoring for children and young people with HIV/Aids.

It will be built on the sacred land of Thabu-Bosiu in Lesotho, known to many as the birthplace of the nation.

Earlier the prince was given a lesson in sign-language as he visited deaf and blind children living in an impoverished African nation. After he had taken part in a home economics class at the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf in Lesotho, pupils taught the third-in-line to the throne how to say “Prince Harry” in sign language.

Harry was joined by Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso, who co-founded charity Sentebale with him in 2006. Later, the two princes visited the St Bernadette’s Resource Centre for the Blind.