Other activities

At the press launch for Walking With The Wounded, 1 March 2010

At the age of 21, Harry was appointed a Counsellor of State and began his duties in that
capacity. In 2006, he was in Lesotho to visit Mants'ase Children's Home near Mohale's Hoek,
which he first toured in 2004 and, along with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, he launched Sentebale:
The Princes' Fund for Lesotho, a charity to aid children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. He has granted
his patronage to organisations including WellChild, Dolen Cymru, and MapAction.[86]
Sport has been a way that Harry has helped charities and other organisations, including training
as a Rugby Development Officer for the Rugby Football Union in 2004 and coaching students in
schools to encourage them to learn the sport. Like his brother and father, he has participated
in polo matches to raise money for charitable causes.[19]
On 6 January 2009, the Queen granted Harry and William their own royal household. Previously,
William and Harry's affairs had been handled by the office of their father at Clarence House in
central London. The new household released a statement announcing that they had established
their own office at nearby St James's Palace to look after their public, military and charitable
activities.[87] In September 2009, William and Harry set up The Foundation of Prince William and
Prince Harry to enable the princes to take forward their charitable ambitions.[88][89][90]
In March 2012, Harry led an official visit to Belize as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
celebrations.[91] He continued to the Bahamas and Jamaica, where the Prime Minister, Portia
Simpson-Miller, was considering severing ties between Jamaica and the constitutional
monarchy.[92] He then visited Brazil to attend the GREAT Campaign.[93]
At Trooping the Colour, June 2013

Between 9 and 15 May 2013, he made an official visit to the United States. The tour promoted
the rehabilitation of injured American and UK troops, publicised his own charities and supported
British interests. It included engagements in Washington DC, Colorado, New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut. He met survivors of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey.[94][95] In August 2013, he
visited Angola to see HALO Trust's work there as patron of the trust's 25th Anniversary
Appeal.[96] In October 2013, he visited Australia for his first official visit to the country and
attended the International Fleet Review at Sydney Harbour.[97] He also paid a visit to the
Australian SAS HQ in Perth.[98] On his way back to the UK, he attended a charity event for
Sentebale at Dubai.[99]
In May 2014, he visited Estonia and Italy. In Estonia, he visited Freedom Square in the
capital Tallinn to honour those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their nation, and attended a
reception at the Estonian Parliament[100] and a NATO military exercise.[101] In Italy, he attended
commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the Monte Cassino battles, in which Polish,
Commonwealth and British troops fought.[102][103] In June 2014, he visited Brazil and Chile.[104] To
mark the World War I centenary, on 4 August 2014, he attended the unveiling of the Folkestone
Memorial Arch in Kent.[105] Subsequently, he flew to Belgium, where he met families of WWI
soldiers in a reception before reading a letter from a fallen soldier in a twilight service at St
Symphorien Military Cemetery in Mons.[106] On 6 November 2014, he opened the Field of
Remembrance at Westminster Abbey,[107] a task usually performed by Prince Philip.[108] On 20
November 2014, he played in the Sentebale Polo Cup in Abu Dhabi in aid of Sentebale; it was
hailed as the Sentebale Polo Cup.[109]
Before reporting for duty to the Australian Defence Force (ADF), Prince Harry visited
the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on 6 April 2015.[78] On 7 May 2015, he made a farewell
walkabout at the Sydney Opera House and visited Macquarie University Hospital.[110][111] On 24–25
April 2015, he joined his father in Turkey to attend commemorations of the centenary of
the Gallipoli Campaign.[112] Harry made an official visit to New Zealand in May 2015,
touring Wellington, Invercargill, Stewart Island, Christchurch, Linton, Whanganui,
and Auckland.[113][114] As patron of Walk of Britain, he walked with the team on 30
September[115] and 20 October 2015.[116] On 28 October 2015, he carried out one day of
engagements in the US. He launched the Invictus Games Orlando 2016 with First Lady Michelle
Obama and Dr. Jill Biden at Fort Belvoir.[117] He later attended an Invictus Games 2016 Board
Meeting and a Reception to celebrate the launch at the British Ambassador's Residence.[118]
On 26 November 2015, as patron of Sentebale, Prince Harry travelled to Lesotho to attend the
opening of the Mamohato Children’s Centre.[119] Two days later Harry played the Sentebale Royal
Salute Polo Cup, at Val de Vie Estate in Cape Town, South Africa, fundraising for
Sentebale.[120] From 30 November to 3 December 2015, he made an official visit to South
Africa.[121] He visited Cape Town, where presented the Order of the Companions of Honour to the
Archbishop on behalf of the Queen.[122] In Johannesburg, Harry visited the Nelson Mandela
Foundation and toured the private archives of the Centre for Memory.[123]

Prince Harry discusses the topic of post-traumatic stress during the 2016 Invictus Games Symposium on
Invisible Wounds with former U.S. president George W. Bush, two veterans, and moderator Jeremy
Schaap.

He visited Nepal 19–23 March 2016.[124] He stayed extra days till end of March 2016 to help
rebuild a secondary school with Team Rubicon UK and visited a Hydropower Project in Central
Nepal.[125] As patron of Invictus Games Foundation, he attended a day of engagements to launch
the Invictus Games 2017 in Toronto on 2 May 2016, and also met with Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau.[126] Prior the Games, on 4 May 2016, Prince Harry played in the Sentebale Royal Salute
Polo Cup at Valiente Polo Farm to raise funds for his charity Sentebale.[127] From 30 June to 1
July 2016, he, along with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended the Battle of the
Somme centenary commemorations at the Thiepval Memorial in France.[128] To raise the
awareness of HIV testing, Harry took a test live on the royal family Facebook page on 14 July
2016.[129] He later attended the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, on 21
July 2016.[130] From 20 November to 4 December 2016, he visited the Caribbean on behalf of the
Queen and the Foreign Office. The countries included Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis,
St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados and Guyana.[131] On World Aids
Day, Prince Harry and Rihanna helped publicise HIV testing by taking the test themselves.[132]
On 27 December 2017, Harry was officially appointed the new President of African Parks, a
conservation NGO.[133] He previously spent three weeks in Malawi with African Parks where he
joined a team of volunteers and professionals to carry out one of the largest elephant
translocations in history. The effort to repopulate decimated areas due to poaching and habitat
loss moved 500 elephants from Liwonde and Majete National Parks to Nkhotakota Wildlife
Reserve.[134]
It has been reported in the press that the prince is going to get a formal position in the
Commonwealth bureaucracy.[135]
In 2018, Harry became a patron of Walk of America, a campaign which brings together a number
of veterans to start up a 1,000-mile expedition across the US in summer 2018.[136][137] In April
2018, the Prince was appointed the president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, which
focuses on projects involving children and welfare of prisoners.[138]In 2018, Harry was selected as
one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine.[139]