Yahoo News Meghan Markle has ‘made two secret visits alone to meet victims at Grenfell Tower’
Meghan Markle has made secret visits to the site of the Grenfell Tower to comfort victims of the tragedy, it has been reported.
The American actress and activist made the appearances on her own, accompanied only by royal officers, the Mirror said.
The newspaper said Prince Harry’s fiancée went to the Al Manaar community mosque in North Kensington, west London, near the tower where 71 people lost their lives last June.
Ms Markle is said to have comforted people who lost everything in the fire.
One Grenfell community member told the Mirror: “Meghan’s visits mean so much to us. She has a special place in our hearts.”
A royal source said: “Ms Markle has regularly been making private visits to organisations as she gets to know the charity sector.”
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In September, Harry and his brother William made a public visit to the Al Manaar mosque – it was opened by their father, Prince Charles, in 2001.
Ms Markle’s secret charity activity echo those of Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, who would visit homeless people at night when she lived at Kensington Palace.
Ms Markle and Harry will get married on Saturday, May 19 at Windsor Castle.
On Tuesday they begin their official visit to Scotland and will greet crowds on the esplanade in Edinburgh.
Later they will travel to a sandwich shop which supports the homeless and has been visited by number of famous faces including Hollywood star George Clooney.
The trip to Scotland will be the fourth public appearance Ms Markle and Harry have made together and follows successful visits to Nottingham, Brixton in south London and Cardiff in the months that followed their engagement announcement in November.
Kensington Palace had said: “Throughout the day Prince Harry and Ms Markle will have the opportunity to meet members of the public, learn more about organisations that work in the local community and nationwide, and celebrate youth in the Scottish Year of Young People 2018.”
Inside the castle at the historic Edinburgh Garrison, which looks out across the city, the couple will watch as the One o’clock Gun is fired, a tradition started in 1861 to mark time for ships in the Firth of Forth.
The couple will then move on to the New Town to visit Social Bite, a social enterprise cafe which distributes 100,000 items of food and hot drinks to homeless people across Scotland each year, as well as employing staff who have experienced homelessness themselves.
In the cafe, Harry and Ms Markle will learn more about the social enterprise, meet staff and tour the kitchen.
They will be the latest in a string of high-profile visitors to Social Bite premises.
Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio stopped for lunch at Social Bite venture Home in Edinburgh’s west end in November 2016 while the Duchess of Cornwall and George Clooney have been to Social Bite’s Rose Street branch.
