Meghan Markle and Prince Harry looked visibly distressed as they stood at the bedside of Maria, a 14-year-old burns victim, at the Speciality Hospital in Amman this week. The Sussexes – on a 48-hour non-royal trip to Jordan – heard how the teenager narrowly avoided amputation of her right leg, losing her toes, after her parents and four other family members were killed in an explosion in Gaza.
“Does she mind showing us?” Harry intervened as Maria’s doctor lifted the 14-year-old’s blanket to show her badly injured foot to the bedside crowd, demonstrating the signature care and compassion that characterised the charity visits of his late mother, Princess Diana – but Maria didn’t mind.
