The Duke of Sussex has described the Roe v Wade ruling on abortion in America as a “global assault on democracy and freedom”.

Prince Harry appeared to criticise the ruling of the US Supreme Court during a keynote speech at the UN headquarters to mark International Nelson Mandela Day.

He revealed that he had a photograph of Mandela with his mother, Princess Diana, taken five months before her death in 1997, “on my wall and in my heart every day”.

He said “global uncertainty and division” had inspired him to “go back to Mandela’s writings for insight” into how to find light in the darkness.

The Duke told UN ambassadors it had been “a painful year in a painful decade” as he expressed empathy with those who felt “battered” and “helpless” in the face of what he described as a seemingly endless stream of disasters and devastation.

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