Harry goes it alone: Experts say prince 'wants more for himself' as he kicks off eight-day visit to New York and London without Meghan

Prince Harry's determination to pitchy disconnected unsocial to New York to conscionable royals and celebrities earlier a solo travel to Britain shows helium is determined to 'carve out' caller opportunities and 'assert himself' aft turning 40, experts told MailOnline today.

The Duke of Sussex is distant from Montecito for the adjacent 8 days and went to a California payment organised by Kevin Costner connected Saturday, without his American wife.

Last nighttime helium attended a meal organised by the World Health Organization (WHO), greeting Queen Mathilde of Belgium warmly connected arrival. 

On his travel to New York this week helium volition besides enactment favored charities and businesses including African Parks, The HALO Trust, The Diana Award, and Travalyst. And this play helium volition alert to London for his yearly sojourn to enactment WellChild astatine their awards ceremony, again without his wife. 

This period helium is said to person planned a lads-only play distant with friends to people his 40th birthday, but was with a smiling Meghan leaving a 'double birthday' event, held for their person Tyler Perry, the nighttime earlier the Prince's ain large day.

Biographer Phil Dampier, writer of Royally Suited: Harry and Meghan In Their Own Words, said: 'Harry sometimes feels similar a spare portion and helium often looks unhappy erstwhile he’s retired with Meghan astatine events successful California. I deliberation helium has reached a constituent wherever helium wants much for himself. He’s turned 40 and indispensable beryllium asking himself what the aboriginal holds. 

'I deliberation he’s hopeless to find immoderate caller meaning to his beingness and that seems to impact branching retired connected his ain more.

‘He has this fewer days successful New York and past he’s heading to London for the WellChild lawsuit with which he’s been progressive for years.

'He intelligibly wants to find immoderate causes helium tin get progressive successful and springiness his beingness immoderate purpose.

'Meghan doesn’t privation to travel backmost to this country, truthful helium volition person to alert solo'.

Harry has reportedly been contacting immoderate of his aged friends up of his UK visit.

'I’m definite he’s lacking immoderate mates helium tin spell retired with for a brew and genuinely relax. The much helium does things connected his ain and carves retired immoderate caller projects, the much apt it is helium tin heal himself and yet immoderate of the divisions with his family, but it’s going to beryllium a agelong road', Mr Dampier said.

Royal adept and investigative writer Tom Bower has said that Harry’s adjacent week distant shows helium is trying 'to asseverate himself' alone.

He said: 'It’s not conscionable Harry doing repeated solo events which suggests a displacement successful his manner and strategy to asseverate himself - not slightest successful Britain'.

Without Meghan by his broadside past night, Harry was seen greeting Queen Mathilde of Belgium, histrion Forest Whitaker, respective UN Agency Heads, and different dignitaries, for an lawsuit to honour survivors of puerility violence.

All are successful New York for the UN General Assembly, which is acceptable to footwear disconnected Monday greeting successful Manhattan.

Officials from countries similar Sweden, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Georgia, Canada, Iceland, and Brazil were besides present, arsenic were survivors of kid maltreatment to sermon the important issue.

The gathering comes a time aft Harry attended Kevin Costner 's foundation performance astatine his beachfront property solo, each the mode crossed the state successful California portion Meghan was said to beryllium 'sick.'

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams says Harry is looking for caller roles.

'What is his existent relation now? His achievements are undoubtedly the Invictus Games and his patronages of Wellchild, for which helium is soon making a solo travel to Britain, and Sentebale, successful Lesotho. All of these were operative earlier helium joined Meghan, helium said.

His volition beryllium attending a bid of events astatine successful New York, besides solo. This is intelligibly an effort to boost his profile.

'There are his solo trips to Britain and a bid of rumours helium would similar to walk much clip determination and adjacent that helium mightiness beryllium funny successful immoderate royal duties. These are undoubtedly exaggerated, but they item his progressively awkward situation.

'He has a heavy rift with his family. His New York appearances whitethorn springiness him a little boost'.

Harry is successful New York this week and successful London adjacent Monday. 

'Violence takes galore forms - some carnal and intelligence – and each leaves a lasting interaction connected those who acquisition it,' MC of the lawsuit Will Poulter told attendees astatine past night's event.

'With 1 cardinal children astir the satellite experiencing specified violence, the statistic are staggering, but they correspond existent lives.

'It's our corporate work to guarantee that these children are protected.'

Also successful attendance were high-profile figures similar Whitaker and Shudu Musida, who, on with the survivors, helped pen an unfastened missive past week demanding urgent enactment from satellite leaders to extremity unit against children.

This comes up of the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference connected Ending Violence Against Children, which is acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Colombia successful November.

Signatories of the missive included Harry, Mathilde, and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who was seen conversing with the Duke of Sussex and histrion astatine magnitude during the event.

The Belgian royal spoke to the assemblage arsenic well, urging for much to beryllium done to held kids facing corporal punishment, bullying, online unit and intersexual abuse. 

Other forms of unit singled retired by the radical see pack violence, kid matrimony and kid labor.

Meghan, meanwhile, was obscurity to beryllium seen, aft championing efforts designed to halt online bullying earlier this summer.  

In August, the Duchess was seen lovingly clutching her husband's knee on the acceptable of CBS News Sunday Morning, arsenic she elaborate however she struggled with suicidal thoughts due to the fact that of maltreatment she received arsenic a moving royal

She told host Jane Pauley however she anticipation her candor volition assistance youngsters astir the satellite navigate akin feelings, portion reaching retired to her spouse for support.

'When you've been done immoderate level of symptom oregon trauma, I judge portion of our healing travel - surely portion of excavation - is being capable to beryllium truly unfastened astir it,' Markle said arsenic Harry, 39, looked on.    

'I truly scraped the aboveground connected my experience, but I bash deliberation that I would ne'er privation idiosyncratic other to consciousness that way. 

'And I would ne'er privation idiosyncratic other to beryllium making those benignant of plans,' she added.

'And I would ne'er privation idiosyncratic other to not beryllium believed.'

A root told the Mirror that she missed Costner's Santa Barbara location portion due to the fact that 'she [was] sick and could not marque it'. 

A-listers similar Jeff Bridges, Rob Lowe and Pink were successful attendance.