By Molly Darlington

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, delivered her first speech in Britain since she and husband Prince Harry stepped down from their royal duties, telling a summit for younger leaders that they had been aiding “the constructive and mandatory” change on the planet.

The speech got here per week after publication of an interview with The Lower journal by which she once more voiced criticism of how she and Harry had been handled by the royal household, inflicting a stir in British newspapers.

“It is vitally good to be again within the UK,” Meghan stated within the keynote deal with to the One Younger World summit in Manchester, northern England, which Harry, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, additionally attended.

“You’re the future, however I wish to add to that, that you’re additionally the current. You’re the ones driving the constructive and mandatory change wanted throughout the globe now on this very second.”

Meghan recounted her first expertise on the summit in 2014 when she was invited to be a counsellor at One Younger World.

“I am thrilled that my husband is ready to be a part of me right here this time,” she stated, drawing cheers from the viewers. “To satisfy once more right here on UK soil with him by my facet makes all of it really feel full circle.”

Harry and Meghan stop royal duties greater than two years in the past, and solely made their first public look in Britain since then in June as a part of Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

They proceed, nonetheless, to draw big media consideration, not least due to the strained relationship between Harry and his elder brother, Prince William, and father, Prince Charles, the inheritor to the throne.

British newspapers stated there aren’t any plans for Harry to see William throughout his journey, indicating that the siblings haven’t but been in a position to patch up their variations. That’s regardless of Harry and Meghan’s staying at their former dwelling close to Windsor Citadel, solely a stone’s throw from the cottage to which William and his household moved final month, papers stated.

Harry has additionally been engaged in a authorized spat with the British authorities over his safety, and in July gained permission to problem a call to disclaim him and his household police safety after they had been in Britain, even when he paid for it himself.

Harry and Meghan have relied on a personal safety staff since shifting to California, the place they dwell with their two younger youngsters.

After the occasion in Manchester, the couple are to attend an occasion in Germany on Tuesday to mark one yr to go till the 2023 Invictus Video games for injured veterans, and an awards ceremony for significantly unwell youngsters in London on Thursday.