Harry and Meghan meet with hospitalized Gazan children during visit to Jordan

Couple set to tour Amman office of World Central Kitchen, which organizes and sends food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza

By Agencies 26 February 2026, 4:51 am

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In this handout photo released by the World Health Organization, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visit the Specialty Hospital to meet with recent medical evacuees from Gaza in Amman, Jordan, on February 25, 2026. (World Health Organization via AP)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived on Wednesday in Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp and Palestinian children evacuated from the Gaza Strip.

British King Charles III’s younger son and his wife “met young refugees… and joined children in football, art and music,” the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said in a post on X.

Jordan opened the Zaatari camp located north of Amman in 2012, a year into the war in neighboring Syria, to host people fleeing the conflict.

Today, it is home to some 45,000 refugees.

The UN says around 680,000 Syrians were registered in Jordan from 2011 onwards, though the kingdom says it welcomed 1.3 million.

Some 200,000 Syrians went back to their country after the ouster of former president Bashar al-Assad in late 2024.

Invited to Jordan by the World Health Organization, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan also visited a hospital in Amman where they met with children evacuated for medical reasons from Gaza, ravaged by more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas. Their nonprofit, Archewell Philanthropies, has supported the WHO efforts to evacuate children from Gaza and bring them to Jordan for treatment.

This handout photograph taken and released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on February 25, 2026, shows Meghan (3rd-L), Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry (C), Duke of Sussex along with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (3rd-R), visiting children who have been evacuated from Gaza for medical care, at the Speciality Hospital in Amman, Jordan. (World Health Organization/AFP)

The couple was scheduled Thursday to visit the Amman office of World Central Kitchen, which organizes and sends food and other humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Harry and Meghan are longtime supporters of World Central Kitchen, their nonprofit’s first philanthropic partner.

Their office said the couple’s two-day visit “will focus on humanitarian health response, mental health and support for vulnerable communities affected by conflict and displacement.”

Prince Harry said in a statement released by the WHO: “We remain deeply committed to advancing awareness, reducing stigma and expanding access to mental health support for all those affected by conflict and crisis.”

Meghan and Harry stepped back from royal duties and moved to California in 2020 over rifts with the royal family and concerns about Meghan’s treatment by the British press, which Harry has long blamed for the death of his mother Diana.