Prince Harry back at work as unseen photos of Meghan drop after BBC presenter Danny Baker fired
Previously unreleased photos of Meghan Markle have just been revealed, as Prince Harry made his return to royal duties after the birth of his son.
Prince Harry has returned to royal duties days after his son Archie was born, as previously unreleased photos of Meghan Markle were revealed.
Harry, 34, today arrived in the Netherlands to promote the 2020 Invictus Games in his first scheduled engagement since his wife, Meghan Markle, 37, gave birth to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
Prince Harry — wearing a jacket with the words “I am daddy” on it — was gifted an Invictus Games romper suit for the bub as he marked one year until The Hague hosts the sports championship for wounded soldiers.
In a candid moment on his trip to the Netherlands, Harry was gifted a onesie for the newborn and pretended to model the tiny white garment which had a grey and yellow “Invictus Games” logo.
The Duke of Sussex joked that he should “put it on” himself.
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The prince, who showed off Archie with Meghan to the public for the first time yesterday, also met athletes and took part in sporting activities including archery.
The Olympic-style Invictus Games are the brainchild of Harry, who served with the British military in Afghanistan — but they have also been a recurring theme in Harry and Meghan’s relationship.
“Sport has the power to help people physically and psychologically,” Prince Harry said.
“Our mental fitness is the key, because without it we fail to operate efficiently; but with it your physical performance and potential are exponentially improved and we have witnessed this over and over again.”
There will be 19 countries represented at next year’s games, which was the brainchild of Prince Harry, with many competitors already training hard.
It came as previously unreleased and undated photos show Harry and Meghan meeting volunteers working with Shout — a new text messaging helpline that supports people in crisis — in London.
UK RADIO PRESENTER FIRED OVER RACIST TWEETS
A BBC radio presenter has been sacked after sending an offensive royal baby tweet that included a photograph of a chimpanzee.
The BBC booted Danny Baker, 61, after the tweet caused outrage, particularly because Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has African-American heritage.
The tweet was seen as a racist reference to baby Archie’s ethnicity. His grandmother Doria Ragland is African-American.
The DJ had tweeted a black and white image showing a well-dressed man and woman holding hands with a suited chimpanzee, which he captioned: “Royal baby leaves hospital”.
The offensive tweet, which was later deleted, came after Prince Harry and Meghan had shown their new son Archie to the world.
Baker, 61, said the posting had been meant as a gag, tweeting late Wednesday that it was “supposed to be (a) joke about royals vs circus animals in posh clothes but interpreted as about monkeys & race.” The post has since been deleted.
“Enormous mistake, for sure. Grotesque. Anyway, here’s to ya Archie, Sorry mate,” he tweeted.
BBC Radio 5 Live controller Jonathan Wall said in an email to staff that Baker had shown poor judgment.
“This was a serious error of judgment and goes against the values we as a station aim to embody. Danny’s a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer be presenting a weekly show with us,” Wall said.
On Thursday, Baker insisted he is not racist and attacked the BBC for its handling of the controversy. He said the call to fire him “was a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity.”
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