The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent the morning at Nottingham’s Community Recording Studio to kick off their away day. They were welcomed with hugs by CRS chief executive and co-founder Trevor Rose and Jah Diggah, a musician, poet and youth mentor who was helped by CRS as a child to move away from gang violence and has been working as a mentor for the charity since 2017.
The group then moved into the building’s sports hall, and after a group photo with young school children, took seats alongside Trevor and a group of CRS youths, to watch an acting workshop led by actor André Squire.
He chose text from Our Style is Legendary, a play by his friend, the Nottingham-based writer Daniel Hoffman-Gill, which tells the story of two friends, teenagers Danny and Richard, a comedy with some darker plotlines also tackling drug abuse and suicide.
Harry and Meghan watched Mohammed Kone, 20, and a girl called Evie, read a scene between Danny and his love-interest, Shelley. After reading the first scene, André said: “Maybe Dany fancies Shelley,” prompting laughter from the other kids.
Harry and Meghan applauded them after the scene – “that was great” Meghan told them – asking the group: “Did you find the characters relatable?”
Before leaving the studio, Harry and Meghan met Amelia Faith Currie, 14, from Clifton, who performed one of her own songs about peer pressure for the couple in an intimate recording studio and booth.
Introducing her, Trevor told Harry and Meghan how Amelia had recently told him how much she wanted to meet the Sussexes. “I told her, two days later, we got a phone call saying you guys might be coming down.” Meghan said: “That’s so funny.”
After performing her song, the couple applauded, joining Amelia in the recording booth, hugging her. “Bravo! Look at you!” Meghan told her. “Keep singing, just keep singing,” Harry said.
Afterwards, Amelia said: “They said I was great, I was a bit shocked, to be fair. Meghan said she wanted me to record a cover of a song – Letter to my 13-year-old-self – and she wants to hear it. I know the song, Meghan said she’d send it to me.”
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