Prince Harry 'went off-grid' during secret solo trip without Meghan Markle

Prince Harry reportedly went off-grid during a secret trip without Meghan Markle immediately after his visit to Angola. It is claimed that the Duke of Sussex extended his stay in Africa after visiting an Angolan minefieldby travelling to nearby Botswana for a three-day stay.

There, it is reported he spent time with Tania 'TJ' Jenkins and her husband Mike, who Harry revealed played a pivotal role in his early years - so much so that he calls TJ his second 'mom'. So remote is the couple's home in Botswana that during his stay, it is reported Harry was uncontactable.

A source told the Mail on Sunday: "This time he took some more time and space, and made the trip into a week-long visit to reconnect with old friends and get some headspace away from his phone and emails. He went off comms for two days or so.

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"It was a good moment for Harry to take some time away from everything, enjoying total peace of mind and being somewhere so remote that he couldn't even get emails or texts or calls."

In his and Meghan's controversial Netflix show, Harry declares his love for Botswana, explaining he considers the country his 'second home'. He said: "I've got a second family out there. A group of friends that literally brought me up." Among them is believed to be TJ and Mike, whom Harry is said to have met when he was first dating his former girlfriend, Chelsy Davy.

Writing in Spare, Harry explained: "She and Mike were the first people ever to cherish whatever wildness was still inside me, whatever hadn't been lost to grief— and paps. They were outraged that others wanted to eliminate this last bit, that others were keen to put me into a cage."

He also revealed how he began to refer to TJ as 'mom', writing: "One afternoon, as we were all getting ready to go for a walk, Teej started nagging me [and I said] ' Okaaay, Mom,'

"It just flew out of my mouth. I heard it and stopped. Teej heard it and stopped. But I didn't correct myself. Teej looked shocked, but also moved. I was moved as well.

"Thereafter, I called her Mom all the time. It felt good. For both of us. Though I made a point, always, to call her Mom, rather than Mum. There was only one Mum."

Before his reported visit to Botswana, Harry visited an Angolan minefield 28 years after his mother’s famous visit in the same country. Harry, as a patron of landmine clearance charity the Halo Trust, spoke to families in a remote village near Africa’s largest minefield.

He gave children in Cuito Cuanavale advice on avoiding detonating mines, telling them in Portuguese: “Stop, go back and tell your elders.”

The duke was highlighting the threat of the munitions in Angola, the same nation Diana, Princess of Wales, visited in 1997 to urge the world to ban the weapons. Months before she died in a car crash, Diana, wearing a protective visor and vest, walked through a minefield being cleared by the Halo Trust.

She strode through a cleared path in a Huambo minefield, and the images of her in body armour and a mask gave the anti-landmine campaign global recognition.

Harry, who also echoed Diana in a 2019 visit to an Angolan minefield, said: "Children should never have to live in fear of playing outside or walking to school. Here in Angola, over three decades later, the remnants of war still threaten lives every day."