Baby Archie to join Harry and Meghan on trip to South Africa

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s much anticipated trip to South Africa later this year has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace – and baby Archie will be joining them.

Harry and Meghan will visit the country in the autumn and a posting on their official Instagram account describes how they are “really looking forward” to meeting people during the trip.

The duke will also carry out solo visits to Angola, Malawi and Botswana.

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TRH The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are excited to announce that they have been asked to carry out a tour to Southern Africa this autumn. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have requested a visit to South Africa 🇿🇦 as well as The Duke carrying out visits to Malawi 🇲🇼 and Angola 🇦🇴. His Royal Highness will also do a short working visit to Botswana 🇧🇼 on route to the other countries. The Duke and Duchess are really looking forward to meeting so many of you on the ground and continuing to raise awareness of the high impact work local communities are doing across the commonwealth and beyond. This will be their first official tour as a family!

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The Instagram posting said: “The duke and duchess are really looking forward to meeting so many of you on the ground and continuing to raise awareness of the high impact work local communities are doing across the commonwealth and beyond.

“This will be their first official tour as a family!”

Baby Archie will be around five months old when his parents take him on his first official overseas trip.

The Duke of Cambridge was just nine months old when his parents the Prince and Princess of Wales took him to Australia and New Zealand for a royal tour in 1983 and when William became a father his son Prince George travelled with him and Kate to the same countries in 2014.

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