The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are preparing for their next career move, officially signing a speaking engagement contract with the New York-based Harry Walker Agency, the Los Angeles Times reports. The agency currently represents the likes of Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton.
According to the publication, the royal couple will engage in moderated discussions, keynote speeches, and community forums, as they begin to forge their own path away from the Royal Family.
A source told BAZAAR.com that once the Sussexes are able to return to in-person work, the couple is expected to participate and focus on engagements that highlight social issues and causes important to them and the world, such as racial justice, gender equity, and environmental preservation and concerns. They will also speak on mental health, a subject very close to Harry.
Reports claim that Harry and Meghan will focus on speaking engagements that relate to their new nonprofit organisation, Archwell.
Since their move away from their role as senior royals, the couple has been isolating at home with their one-year-old son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in their new home of Los Angeles.
Meghan did, however, release a heartfelt video following the death of George Floyd. She released the full speech to media, where she spoke candidly about the protests, her own experience witnessing the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and her high expectations for graduates to join the fight for an end to racial injustice and police brutality.
“I wasn’t sure what I could say to you,” she began. “I wanted to say the right thing. And I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart, and I realized – the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing. Because George Floyd’s life mattered, and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered, and Philando Castile’s life mattered, and Tamir Rice’s life mattered, and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we don’t know. Stephon Clark. His life mattered.”
