Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s latest Instagram offering is a powerful message supporting the LGBTQ community ahead of Pride Month – and in doing so, shared a touching tribute to Harry’s late mother Princess Diana.
The royal couple shared a collage of photos – one of which was of Diana – to mark the beginning of Pride Month.
“Continuing with our tradition to rotate the accounts we follow based on causes and social issues that matter to us: For the month of June we “proudly” shine a light on PRIDE,” read the caption.
“This month we pay tribute to the accounts supporting the LGBTQ+ community — those young and old, their families and friends, accounts that reflect on the past and are hopeful for a deservedly more inclusive future.
“We stand with you and support you.
“Because it’s very simple: love is love.”
In amongst the pictures was an image of Diana meeting with HIV patient Gerard McGrath at London Lighthouse in 1996.
Princess Diana is remembered as one of the most high-profile figures to fight the stigma surrounding HIV and AIDS.
She opened the UK’s first purpose- built HIV/Aids unit, which cared exclusively for patients with the virus, at London’s Middlesex Hospital in 1987 and famously shook the hand of a man suffering from the virus without wearing gloves – showing the world the notion that the virus could be passed from person-to-person via touch was simply not true.
Watch below to see Harry and Meghan celebrate their first wedding anniversary:
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