King Charles, Princess Anne and more royal visits to Colombia ahead of Prince Harry and Meghan’s tour

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are heading out on a working trip to Colombia this week, and while it’s a significant moment for Prince Harry and Meghan, they’re not the first royals to visit the South American country.

Harry and Meghan, who stepped back as senior working royals in 2020, have been invited to Colombia at the invitation of the country’s vice president Francia Marquez.

Ms Marquez, a lawyer and human rights and environmental activist, said the pair would join her in visiting the capital Bogota, as well as the Caribbean and Pacific regions of Cartagena and Cali.

Details of the couple’s itinerary have not yet been released, but the vice president said they would engage in several activities related to safeguarding young people online and in physical spaces.

The last British royal to visit Colombia was Harry’s aunt, the Duchess of Edinburgh, in November 2023, but King Charles, Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and some of the European royals have also taken official trips.

King Charles and Queen Camilla
The then Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall carried out a nine-day visit to Colombia and Mexico in October 2014.

The tour was organised to provide a “boost” to the bilateral relationships between the UK and the two Latin American countries.

During their tour, Charles and Camilla visited the capital Bogota, as well as Macarena National Park and Cartagena.

Charles also previously visited Colombia in 1974 when he was a naval officer on HMS Minerva.

The Duchess of Edinburgh
The Duchess of Edinburgh, pictured with former Colombia First Lady, Maria Clemencia Rodriguez Munera, in London in 2016, visited Colombia in November 2023 to shine a light on women impacted by war.

Sophie whose trip came at the request of the UK Government, travelled to Bogota to champion the survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.