Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are traveling to Jordan this week

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are set to travel to Jordan this week in a two-day trip to the Middle Eastern nation. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will join Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to “focus on humanitarian health response, mental health, and support for vulnerable communities affected by conflict and displacement,” according to their office.

Town & Country understands that the purpose of Harry and Meghan’s visit to Jordan is primarily listening and learning, and amplifying effective humanitarian responses in the region. They are visiting now, in February 2026, because the Sussexes believe that health food insecurity impacts are intensifying in Gaza, while international attention risks waning. The Duke and Duchess, too, are focused on mental health, trauma recovery, and other long-term consequences of conflict on civilians.

The royal family was informed in advance of the trip, T&C can confirm, but the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are not, however, acting as representatives of the UK government. Rather, the visit is undertaken in partnership with the WHO and in support of other organizations they work with, including World Central Kitchen and Questscope.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex examines a prosthetic limb as Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Imperial College London Professor Hugh Brady look on during a visit to the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London on September 10, 2025.

In September, Prince Harry and Dr. Ghebreyesus carried out an engagement in London together, visiting Imperial College London’s Centre for Blast Injury Studies. At the time, the Sussexes announced a donation to organizations supporting injured children from Gaza and Ukraine, including to the WHO. “No single organization can solve this alone,” Harry said in a statement at a time. “Gaza now has the highest density of child amputees in the world and in history. It takes partnerships across government, science, medicine, humanitarian response and advocacy to ensure children survive and can recover after blast injuries.”

During their trip to Jordan this week, the Sussexes will visit initiatives “they have financially supported to help facilitate medical evacuations for children affected by the conflict in Gaza,” according to their office. This past fall, Ghebreyesus praised Harry’s involvement spotlighting the injured children of Gaza. “He’s a known figure and his influence is big. So he can help in influencing and others could follow suit. But at the same time, to address the problem we see in Gaza, we need everybody’s participation,” the WHO Director-General said.

While the Sussexes are focusing on Gazan children and refugees during this visit, they do not intend to explicitly comment on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In October 2023, the couple weighed in on the October 7 terrorist attack, writing, “We are supporting our partners and organizations on the frontlines in Israel to provide the urgent aid needed, and to help all innocent victims of this unconscionable level of human suffering.” Harry and Meghan remain focused on non-partisan, non-politicized work, T&C understands, with an emphasis on pro-peace initiatives that help families and children.

Andrés appeared in the second season of Meghan’s Netflix show, With Love, Meghan.

While in Jordan, the Sussexes will also visit the World Central Kitchen’s regional headquarters in Amman and Questscope at the Za’atari Refugee Camp. World Central Kitchen (WCK) was the first philanthropic partnership that the Duke and Duchess set up through their Archewell Foundation, and they have a friendship with WKC founder José Andrés. “For me, it is a pleasure to call them friends,” Andrés said in 2022. “All my life I have been trying to learn what exactly we are missing because why is there still hunger? What are we missing? We have to make the most of the opportunities of goodness, and I believe that with people like Meghan and Harry, we can make it happen.”

Andrés has focused on providing hot meals in Gaza. “With the scale of suffering in Gaza and Israel, it can sometimes feel like there is little room for compassion in the middle of so much grief,” he wrote last summer. “But I heard time and again from Palestinians and Israelis who see the humanity in one another. At WCK, we believe that our shared humanity begins by sharing a plate of food. I know you believe that, too.”

Dr. Essam Daod speaks onstage during "The Mental Health And Psychosocial Response To Humanitarian Crises" at the Project Healthy Minds World Mental Health Day Festival.

During their two-day trip, the Sussexes will also be joined by Dr. Essam Daod, the founder of Humanity Crew. Daod, a Palestinian psychiatrist and psychotherapist, first connected with Prince Harry during his documentary on metal health The Me You Can’t See, which follows Daod’s work helping Syrian refugee children in Lesbos. Archewell has supported Humanity Crew, and Daod appeared at Project Healthy Minds’ World Mental Health Day in New York City this past fall alongside the Sussexes.