Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2020 8:06:59 GMT
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, are facing a wave of backlash for unveiling their new charity, Archewell, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and just as the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was moved to intensive care for the deadly illness.
The U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper discovered a cache of documents confirming the charity had been registered in the United States, specifically in Los Angeles, California, where the couple are now headquartered after escaping Canada in the final days before a complete travel ban prevented travel between Canada and the U.S.
“The [Telegraph’s] report notes that Harry and Meghan did not plan to unveil the name of their charity amid the pandemic, but the documents being uncovered prompted them to issue a statement to the outlet. It notes that, while their focus is on COVID-19, they felt the need to inform the public why they chose the name,” Fox News reports.
“Like you, our focus is on supporting efforts to tackle the global Covid-19 pandemic but faced with this information coming to light, we felt compelled to share the story of how this came to be,” the pair said in a statement, issued Monday afternoon. “We connected to this concept for the charitable organization we hoped to build one day, and it became the inspiration for our son’s name. To do something of meaning, to do something that matters.”
The pair, which split from the rest of the royal family in a shocking move designed, they said, to allow them and their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor a measure of privacy, revealed that the foundation is actually named after their son — at least, in a way.
The U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper discovered a cache of documents confirming the charity had been registered in the United States, specifically in Los Angeles, California, where the couple are now headquartered after escaping Canada in the final days before a complete travel ban prevented travel between Canada and the U.S.
“The [Telegraph’s] report notes that Harry and Meghan did not plan to unveil the name of their charity amid the pandemic, but the documents being uncovered prompted them to issue a statement to the outlet. It notes that, while their focus is on COVID-19, they felt the need to inform the public why they chose the name,” Fox News reports.
“Like you, our focus is on supporting efforts to tackle the global Covid-19 pandemic but faced with this information coming to light, we felt compelled to share the story of how this came to be,” the pair said in a statement, issued Monday afternoon. “We connected to this concept for the charitable organization we hoped to build one day, and it became the inspiration for our son’s name. To do something of meaning, to do something that matters.”
The pair, which split from the rest of the royal family in a shocking move designed, they said, to allow them and their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor a measure of privacy, revealed that the foundation is actually named after their son — at least, in a way.