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The Duchess of Sussex declared it was “very nice to be back in the UK” as she took centre stage in Manchester to tell young leaders “you are the future… you are the present”.

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00:07It is very nice to be back in the UK.
00:12As you'll likely hear many times this week, you are the future.
00:17But I would like to add to that, that you are also the present.
00:23You are the ones driving the positive and necessary change
00:28needed across the globe now in this very moment.
00:31It was several years ago in 2014 that I was first invited to be a counselor at One Young World.
00:39And in many ways at the time, I was probably a lot like each of you.
00:45Young, ambitious, advocating for the things I deeply and profoundly believed in.
00:53And also looking around and wondering, how on earth did I get here?
00:58And there I was. I was the girl from Suits.
01:03And I was surrounded by world leaders, humanitarians, prime ministers,
01:10an activist that I had such a deep and long-standing respect and admiration for.
01:19And I was invited to pull up a seat at the table.
01:24I was so overwhelmed by this experience.
01:27I think I even saved my little paper place card that said my name on it.
01:36Just proof. Proof that I was there. And proof that I belonged.
01:44Because the truth was, I wasn't sure that I belonged.
01:47I was so nervous. I doubted myself.
01:50And I wondered if I was good enough to even be there.
01:54If what I was doing in the world, albeit important and meaningful as far as I saw it,
01:58was it deserving to have a seat at this table?
02:04But one young world saw in me what I wanted to see fully in myself.
02:09They saw in me just as I see in you, the present and the future.
02:17Okay, grateful once upon the sun.
02:17Sometimes the room feltameled under you.
02:19And I'm satisfied, however, much each other.
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