Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just spent the weekend touring the Big Apple, where they made stops at the U.N. headquarters, One World Trade Center and a school in Harlem, where the Duchess of Sussex read her book, The Bench.
However, one of the biggest reasons the couple journeyed to the east coast was for the Global Citizen Live event, where they made a speech advocating for vaccine equity.
The royals walked on stage hand-in-hand, and the Duke of Sussex opened their speech by saying, “Hello and good evening, global citizens. Look at all of us here—sixty-thousand strong—together in New York City!”
He then asked the crowd, “Are we prepared to do what's necessary to end this pandemic?” As the crowd shouted, “Yes,” Markle introduced herself and said, “It is so good to be back here with all of you. Look—we know that it feels like this pandemic has been going on forever. We get it, it is a lot. And some people are just over it. But if everyone's over it, it's never going to be over. There is so much that we can do today, now, that can get us closer to ending this pandemic and that's why we're all here.”