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going Meghan and Harry

Harry & Meg

in final royal

appearance

PRINCE Harry and
Meghan will take part in
their final engagement as
senior royals next Monday.
They will join the Queen,
the Duke and Duchess of
Cornwall and the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge
at Westminster Abbey for
Commonwealth Day.
It will be the couple’s
first appearance with the
royals since they
announced in January that
they wanted to step back.
Meghan, 38, will be at
the Endeavour Fund
Awards, honouring Forces
veterans in London this
Thursday – her first
appearance since the
couple’s announcement.
Harry is on a final run of
engagements before the
couple leave for a life
mostly in North America
at the end of the month.

By RUSSELL MYERS
Royal Editor

TRAgEDY Harry Dunn

Dunn family

‘showdown’

in High Court

THE family of Harry Dunn
are set to challenge the
Foreign Office over the
diplomatic immunity given
to his alleged killer in the
High Court this summer.
Their spokesman Radd
Seiger said: “Harry’s
parents have brought a
judicial review against the
FCO and Northampton-
shire Police.
“The FCO must set out
the grounds on which it is
resisting the judicial
review and to disclose
evidence in support by this
Friday, March 6.”
He said a “full trial”
would take place in June.
Harry died aged 19 after
his motorbike was in a
collision with a car driven
by US diplomat’s wife
Anne Sacoolas outside a
military base in North-
amptonshire on August 27
last year.

By JoSH PAYnE

They ambushed

our car and said,

‘We want your

money or

your life’

to leave the Caribbean country.

The presenter, who has made

travel documentaries for more

than a decade, said: “I’m not

really an afraid kind of person. If

you look timid, people and

animals pick it up very fast. In

Haiti, people are so

poor, but if you say,

‘Bonjour,’ and put

your hand out, you’ve

made friends

immediately.”

Haiti has been

blighted by crippling

debt, corrupt regimes

and natural disasters,

including the 2010

earthquake. Joanna

was horrified to see

children living in poverty “like

wild animals”.

She added: “The country’s

broken, nothing works. There are

unbelievably poor communities.

“There were street children

sleeping rough, abandoned by

their families. But they dreamed

of being pilots and lawyers, even

though they’ve got no education.

That affects you terribly.

“Seeing people living in squalor

because they’ve been let down by

the government is unbearable.

You want to go to

the top and say, ‘You

b*****ds, the first

thing you can do is

get clean water. Care

for your people.’”

But Joanna, who

is married to

conductor Stephen

Barlow, said she still

loves making travel

shows, despite the

horrors she

witnesses. She said in Radio

Times: “It’s not a strain, I love it.”

And she told how one of her

secrets to avoiding illness on the

road is vegetarianism.

She added: “Vegetarianism is

good for travelling as it’s usually

meat or fish that makes you ill.”

On her 1,500-mile trip for the

documentary, Joanna also visited

Santiago de Cuba, the birthplace

of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

■ Joanna Lumley’s Hidden

Caribbean: Havana to

Haiti starts Tuesday

March 10, ITV, 9pm.

Read the star’s full

interview in Radio

Times, out today.

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Joanna’s bandit ordeal in troubled Haiti

Joanna Lumley has

told how she was

ambushed by armed

bandits while making a

TV documentary.

The actor had been

filming in troubled Haiti

when she and her camera

crew were stopped in their

car. Joanna, 73, said:

“Suddenly there was a

blockage across the road.

They’d put branches down.

Our bodyguards got out and said,

‘Come on guys, clear it away’.

“And they said, ‘No, we want

your money or your life.’

Sometimes they dig trenches,

pour oil in and set fire to it, then

they come with guns and take

your wallets.” The gang let

them pass unscathed.

Joanna had been in the

capital Port-au-Prince,

which she described as

a “catastrophe”.

She added: “We

arrived on the day of

a riot, so we had a

police escort to the

hotel. Riots break out

like wildfires

across the land

and if you’re in

that place, you’re

stuck.” But Joanna’s

ordeal did not leave

her feeling desperate

close

shave

Joanna was

stopped by

armed gang

They come

with guns

and take

your

wallets

joanna tells how

robbers operate

MY LovE

Star and

husband

Stephen

fiLMing

Watching

dancing in

cuba