‘It was only two years ago that he held Archie’: Sussexes pay tribute to human rights icon

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(CU)_In September 2019, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended his first official engagement. A giggly five-month-old Archie paid a visit to South Africa with his parents, during which he was greeted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Thandeka in Cape Town.

This week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle honoured the human rights icon who died Sunday (26 Dec), at the age of 90. The Nobel Prize winner was known for his tireless efforts to fight the apartheid and for his international campaigns for racial justice and LGBTQ rights. In 1985, he became the first Black bishop of Johannesburg, following which he was appointed as the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town a year later, earning the nickname “The Arch”.

Issuing a statement, Prince Harry and his wife honoured the work of the South African theologian and reflected on their son Archie’s 2019 meeting with him. “Archbishop Tutu will be remembered for…

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