The Duchess of Edinburgh continued her busy schedule as she began the second day of her visit to Bangladesh on Tuesday.

Sophie, 61, visited the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar to see the support being offered to displaced people from Myanmar.

Prince Edward‘s wife spent time hearing about efforts to help women and girls as part of her commitment to the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the UK’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.

She met children living in Camp 4 and learnt about their education and experiences during her trip.

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“Please give me, and students like me, an opportunity. If I get an opportunity, I will become an engineer and come back to my community to help them,” Mohammad Obaid, a class 6 student, pleaded with the royal, according to the Bangladesh outlet Daily Star.

The Duchess called the students “very gifted and clever” and emphasised the importance of education.

She was dressed down for the second day of her visit, opting for a casual white shirt tucked into a vibrant print maxi skirt, paired with trainers and a yellow scarf.

Commenting on a post shared by the royal family, one well-wisher wrote: “Always wonderful to see The Duchess of Edinburgh working with the Women, Peace and Security agenda! HRH is truly wonderful and does a lot, very hardworking.”

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Duchess Sophie continues her visit to Bangladesh

The Duchess also visited the UNICEF learning centre, and travelled to a Women and Girls’ Safe Space, run by the International Organisation for Migration.

She toured a soap factory within the camps run by the Programme for Helpless and Lagged Societies (PHALS), a Cox’s Bazar-based NGO working with Rohingya refugees and vulnerable host communities.

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The visit aimed to demonstrate how livelihood programmes can strengthen Rohingya women’s economic empowerment and self-reliance where access to formal work is restricted.

Sophie handled the soap and watched the pink blocks being produced and cut in the factory.

Since 2017, more than 1.2 million Rohingya refugees have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State to find shelter in the densely populated camps in Cox’s Bazar – the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Sophie’s quick turnaround revealed

Sophie, who is undertaking the solo trip at the request of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, arrived in the South Asian country on Monday after a quick turnaround.

Just hours after she attended the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph, Sophie met Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, to discuss their shared interest in the welfare and empowerment of women.

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She was dressed in the colours of the Bangladeshi flag with a green top from Theory, white skinny jeans, and shoes from Penelope Chilvers.

The visit is intended to celebrate the strength and breadth of the UK-Bangladesh partnership.

Sophie, who is the mother of Lady Louise Windsor and James, Earl of Wessex, previously visited the country in 2017.