The couple is advocating for vaccine equity, a topic on which the remaining members of the monarchy have been silent.
this past spring, setting new global records for single-day infection rates. The inequity is glaring in some of the 16 Commonwealth “realms” that still recognize the queen as their head of state: Only 0.5% of people in Papua New Guinea are fully vaccinated, 3.5% in the Solomon Islands, 7% in Jamaica, and 12% in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Acknowledging the U.K. decision against waiving vaccine patents may be considered by the British royals to be a political stance—on which they’d be banned from expressing their opinions. But vaccine equity shouldn’t be classified as a political issue but rather a human one. Though they’re no longer senior royals, Prince Harry and Meghan continue to advocate for the nations of the Commonwealth through their push for vaccine equity.
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