Prince Harry scolded a TV journalist for asking him a question during his visit to a health clinic in Malawi, reports said on Wednesday .
Sky News royal reporter Rhiannon Mills asked the Duke of Sussex an unscheduled question as he got into a car after a visit to the Mauwa Health Centre on Tuesday.
Harry, 35, had told a group of young people to ‘hold on to your dreams’ while talking to them as he visited the clinic during his ten-day tour of southern Africa.
But as he was being led away into a waiting vehicle by palace officials, Ms. Mills asked him: ‘That short conversation, what do you hope to achieve through it?
He replied: ‘What? Ask them’, pointing back towards the hospital – but the reporter added: ‘Is that why it’s important for you to come and talk to them?’
Harry appeared to become frustrated with Ms. Mills and gestured for her to move away from him as he got into the car, saying: ‘Rhiannon, don’t behave like this.’
The confrontation took place hours before the prince released a statement accusing media outlets of ‘relentless propaganda’ and ‘bullying’, saying he feared his wife Meghan, 38, has fallen victim to the ‘same powerful forces’ his mother Diana did before her death.
The statement was released after the royal couple announced Meghan had decided to take legal action against the Mail on Sunday following publication of a letter to her estranged father Thomas Markle.
During Harry’s visit to the clinic in Malawi, he sat down for a private chat with the teenagers, after learning about the work of medical staff and other employees at the clinic.
Sitting outside but under cover from the searing sun, the discussion was supposed to be about sexual health but also touched on other topics the duke is passionate about, including climate change and conservation.
A health official said: ‘They asked him what challenges he faced when growing up and he did have challenges but he said they were not similar as the context was different.
‘He told the young people to ‘hold on to your dreams’ and he urged them to show kindness, empathy and work together.’
Harry had travelled to the village of Blantyre to see an innovative project funded by the US and UK Governments which is ensuring that vaccines, drugs and other treatments are more readily available.
Source: MailOnline
