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 meet royals and celebrities earlier a solo travel to Britain shows he is wished to 'carve out' caller opportunities and 'assert himself' aft turning 40, experts told MailOnline today.

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

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

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

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

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

'I deliberation he’s hopeless to find immoderate caller meaning to his life 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 nan WellChild arena pinch which he’s been progressive for years.

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

'Meghan doesn’t want to travel backmost to this country, truthful he will person to alert solo'.

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

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

Royal master and investigative journalist Tom Bower has said that Harry’s adjacent week distant shows he 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, character Forest Whitaker, respective UN Agency Heads, and different dignitaries, for an arena to honour survivors of puerility violence.

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

Officials from countries for illustration Sweden, Colombia, Zimbabwe, Georgia, Canada, Iceland, and Brazil were besides present, arsenic were survivors of kid maltreatment to talk nan important issue.

The gathering comes a time aft Harry attended Kevin Costner 's kindness performance astatine his beachfront property solo, each nan measurement crossed nan state successful California while Meghan was said to beryllium 'sick.'

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

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

His will 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 he would for illustration to walk much clip location and moreover that he mightiness beryllium willing successful immoderate royal duties. These are undoubtedly exaggerated, but they item his progressively awkward situation.

'He has a heavy rift pinch 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 beingness and psychological – and each leaves a lasting effect connected those who acquisition it,' MC of nan arena Will Poulter told attendees astatine past night's event.

'With 1 cardinal children astir nan world experiencing specified violence, nan 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 for illustration Whitaker and Shudu Musida, who, on pinch nan survivors, helped pen an unfastened missive past week demanding urgent action from world leaders to extremity unit against children.

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

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

The Belgian royal said to nan crowd 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 nan group 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, nan Duchess was seen lovingly clutching her husband's knee on nan group of CBS News Sunday Morning, arsenic she elaborate really she struggled pinch suicidal thoughts because of maltreatment she received arsenic a moving royal

She told host Jane Pauley really she dream her candor will thief youngsters astir nan world navigate akin feelings, while reaching retired to her spouse for support.

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

'I really scraped nan aboveground connected my experience, but I do deliberation that I would ne'er want personification other to consciousness that way. 

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

'And I would ne'er want personification other to not beryllium believed.'

A root told nan Mirror that she missed Costner's Santa Barbara location portion because 'she [was] sick and could not make it'. 

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