Nigerian boy who hugged Meghan writes to Harry saying ‘sorry I cuddled your wife’

The teenage Nigerian schoolboy who hugged Meghan Markle and told his friends ‘she really is beautiful’ has written to Prince Harry to apologise for ‘cuddling’ his wife.


 Aker Okoye, 16, met the Duchess of Sussex when she surprised pupils at the Robert Clack Upper School in Dagenham on Friday to mark International Women’s Day.

The head boy said he was ‘just so overwhelmed and shocked’ by Meghan’s visit when he gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek on his school stage.

He got a cheer from his fellow students when he took to the mic and cheekily said: ‘She really is beautiful, innit. I had to speak the truth there.’


In a note to the Duke of Sussex this weekend, Aker said: ‘I hope you didn’t mind me cuddling your wife,’ adding: ‘It was a pleasure to hear her speech and to speak in front of her as well.’


The student also said in his letter, published in The Sun, that he hoped to meet Harry one day and wished the royal couple ‘good luck for the future’ as they step back from senior royal duties.