The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to arrive in Tonga tomorrow afternoon, Thursday October 25, at 3:30pm on a chartered flight from Fiji, as part of their 16-day trip across four countries.

They will be welcomed at Fua'amotu International Airport “VVIP” lounge by Princess Angelika and Tonga government officials.

A group of traditional dancers from Pelehake village will perform as Prince Harry and Meghan walk on a red carpet and traditonal tapa walkway from the aircraft to the lounge.

A group of 61 overseas media will also arrive on the same charter flight and join local and other overseas media to cover the short overnight visit to Tonga, 'Olita Tupou, the Acting Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet has confirmed today.

The Duke and Duchess are guests of HM King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau'u and will stay at the royal residence, "The Villa". They will have a private audience with the King and Queen tomorrow afternoon, before an outdoor reception at Consular House on the Nuku'alofa seafront, to be attended by members of the Tongan Royal Family, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, judiciary, diplomatic corps parliamentarians, and invited guests.

On Friday the royal visitors will make an early courtesy call on the Prime Minister of Tonga and Minister for Foreign Affairs at St George Government Building in Nuku'alofa, before attending an exhibition by Tongan National Youth at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre.

The Duke and Duchess will then go to Tupou College at Toloa, where, as part of the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy Project, they will unveil two plaques for two forest reserves - the Toloa Forest Reserve and the 'Eua National Park Forest Reserve.

After returning to Nuku'alofa for a lunchtime audience with HM King Tupou VI at the Royal Palace, the royal visitors will leave by a chartered flight from Fua'amotu International Airport at 1:45pm.

After Tonga the couple will return to Australia on Friday night for the final days of the Invictus Games before going to New Zealand for four days at the end of their tour.

The Duke of Sussex is sixth in line to the throne and the younger son of The Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. His Royal Highness spent ten years working in the Armed Forces, ending operational duties in 2015. During his service, he conducted two tours of duty to Afghanistan with the British Army. The Duke now spends his working life supporting a number of charitable activities and projects and carrying out public duties in support of The Queen of England. The Invictus Games, a focus of the royal tour, is an international adaptive sporting event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women, both serving and veteran. Prince Harry is the Patron.

Among numerous other patronages, the Duke of Sussex is the patron of several bodies governing rugby in England. He is Patron of the Rugby Football Union, Governing body of the sport of Rugby Union in England; Patron of the Rugby Football Union All Schools Programme, a project to use rugby in schools to increase activity levels, improve behaviour and improve attainment; Patron of The Rugby Football League, the Governing body of the sport of Rugby League in England; and Patron of the Rugby Football Union Injured Players Foundation, to support players who have been injured playing rugby at any level of the game in England.