It's A Minefield! - Meghan & Harry's Tour Bombshell

The Sussexes feel the heat back at home

As they touched down in the UK after their 10-day tour of Africa last week, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were basking in the success of their first official overseas trip with baby Archie.

After months of negative headlines, the royal tour was being lauded as a great triumph, with the pair shining a light on a raft of admirable causes and showing their humanitarian sides.

As well as visits to HIV organisations, mental health groups and female empowerment charities, the big highlight for royal fans was the eagerly awaited appearance of adorable Archie, who melted hearts on his visit with anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Prince Harry then made an emotional journey to Angola, where he followed in the footsteps of his late mother Princess Diana by walking through a minefield. “Her memory is with me daily and her legacy lives on,” he said. The prince also reunited with landmine survivor Sandra Tigica, who met his mother in early 1997, just months before her tragic death.

“Harry and Meghan loved every minute of their time away, and much of it was extremely emotional for both of them,” tells a close source. “They knew the trip was make or break in terms of their public image, and there’s no doubt they won hearts with their genuine approach and the tour was a great success. They told friends it was wonderful to feel some warmth and recognition because it’s felt like a long time coming lately.”

The tour was drama-free for the couple, other than criticism in the final days of the trip when it emerged they’d shipped over a fleet of bulletproof Range Rover vehicles from England. The transporting of the cars over a 16,000km distance raised eyebrows over the couple's green credentials and comes after they were reproached for often using private jets while asserting that “every footprint counts”.