Britain’s Prince Harry addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Monday at its annual celebration of Nelson Mandela International Day, paying tribute to the legacy of the South African anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison and became his country’s first Black leader.
"Those of us not fortunate to know Mandela well, have come to understand the man thru his legacy, the letters he wrote alone in his prison cell, the speeches he delivered to his people, and those incredible shirts that he sported," Harry said.
The 37-year-old Duke of Sussex recalled a photo of his late mother, Princess Diana, and Mandela taken in Cape Town in 1997, not long before her death. Harry said the photo, which was given to him recently by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is"on my wall and in my heart every day." "When I first looked at the photo, straight away what jumped out is the joy on my mother's face," Harry said."The playfulness — cheekiness, even. The pure delight to be in communion with another soul so committed to serving humanity. Then I looked at Mandela. Here was a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, asked to heal his country from the wreckage of its past and transform it for the future.
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