Meghan Markle arrives at a Commonwealth event in London, where she and Prince Harry pledged to focus on promoting LGBT rights Yui Mok/Press AssociationPrince Harry and Meghan Markle are to put gay rights at the forefront of their agenda, the couple told young activists from the Commonwealth yesterday. They were at a youth reception in London as part of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting week, and Ms Markle said that LGBT issues were about “basic human rights”. Although her fiancé and the Duke of Cambridge have spoken out about gay rights before, this was the prince’s firmest commitment to date. Talking to young people in the Commonwealth Equality Network, Ms Markle stressed the importance of its work challenging inequality based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Prince Charles and Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, at the Science Museum yesterday HANNAH MCKAY/REUTERSJacob Thomas, from Melbourne, who won a Queen’s Young Leaders award for work to reduce the suicide rate in the LBGT…

Source: The Times April 18, 2018 15:56 UTC