WINNING HEARTS IN NIGERIA PRINCE HARRY AND MEGHAN SHARE STORIES OF PRINCE ARCHIE AND PRINCESS LILIBET AS THEY WOW FANS ON A VERY 'ROYAL' TOUR

They're no longer working members of the They're no longer way, by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex certainly received a majestic welcome on their recent trip to Nigeria.

- SUZANNE WINTROB

The three-day visit which coincided with Mother's Day and took place just before the couple's sixth wedding anniversary - was a chance for the busy parents to focus on each other while supporting their Archewell Foundation and related charities, as well as the 10th anniversary of Prince Harry's Invictus Games. However, their beloved kids, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 2, were never far from their minds.

"We are missing our children - I'm missing my babies - but it feels very appropriate to be in the motherland and amongst family," Meghan, 42, said during a visit to the Lagos State Governor's Office.

The duchess's praise for her hosts came from the heart she told a Women in Leadership panel a day earlier what it meant to her to discover that she is 43 per cent Nigerian.

"Every single moment that I hear anyone [here] talk about what it means to be a Nigerian woman, it is the most flattering thing to be in that company, to be in your company," she said, describing the West African nation as "my country."

PRIVATE CITIZENS

Harry and Meghan's action-packed trip was billed as a private one, yet it had all the hallmarks of the many official tours they had undertaken as senior royals.