The couple, who announced their engagement on monday, will meet members of the public when they visit several charities. Who will england face in the world cup . The countdown to todays draw in russia is underway. Good morning. Its friday 1st december. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Royal bank of scotland has announced its to close 259 branches resulting in 680 job losses. The latest round of closures at the state owned bank follows 180 announced in march. Will come back to this story in a moment. Right now, were going to ta ke moment. Right now, were going to take you to nottingham, where prince harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle by due to carry out a Patch Programme of engagements. Their First Official visit since their engagement was announced on monday. Book ending either end of the working week with the engagement announcement on monday morning and now here they are carrying out their First Official visit as an engaged couple. And big crowds gathering in nottingham today for this. Wrapped up nottingham today for this. Wrapped up against the weather and what theyre going to be doing, they will be raising awareness of hiv, aids, effo rts be raising awareness of hiv, aids, efforts to tackle youth crime. Theyre doing this walkabout and although Meghan Markle in her career as an actress is very used to the media, certainly the walkabout is something she wont have had experience of before so this is something new that she will have to adapt to as part of the royal family. Of course, a huge amount of interest in this First Official visit for the couple from media rights around the world and of course members of the public. Our royal correspondent Sarah Campbell is in royal correspondent Sarah Campbell isina royal correspondent Sarah Campbell is in a sense of the atmosphere. This is the old part of the city of nottingham. This is where they have chosen to have their first walkabout. The crowds started arriving about two hours ago and despite the freezing cold temperatures, there is a huge amount of excitement. And a huge amount of pride, i think, of excitement. And a huge amount of pride, ithink, that of excitement. And a huge amount of pride, i think, that prince harry shows the city of nottingham as the first public walkabout, the first meet and greet for Meghan Markle. Lots of excitement. His spokesman said, when they announced this on tuesday, that the city of nottingham has a special place for him. Hes certainly been involved in a lot of projects here. The academy he is going to go on to after hes been here in the centre of the city, hes already been there twice before just this year. Its an academy, a project that is helping to tackle Youth Violence in the city. Its one of the issues important to him. Just watching these pictures of Meghan Markle there. Wondering what she must make. She is of course californian, born and raised, but here she is. That the mayor of nottingham behind her. Nice shot of her handbag. I havent seen what shoes shes wearing debt but she appears to be wrapped up warm. It is very, very cold today. They were dropped off. They will be wandering down around 400 yards towards the contemporary art museum. They werent going to spend terribly long at the meet and greet but as you can see everyone is wanting to have a word. American flag there. Must be spoke to an american in the crowd and she said that Meghan Markle will have to get used to driving on a different side of the roads, one of many things she will have to get used to. And also the walkabouts shes obviously used to the limelight as an actress but the walkabout is an entirely different phenomena. Well, absolutely. You will have covered red carpet events. They tend to be quite heavily controlled. You dont necessarily get quite as close to the public as you would in a situation like this, so you would in a situation like this, so this is something new, but as we all know this is kind of the bread and butter of the royalfamily, part of their role is to be seen to go out and be seen in public. Its very much part of the job. 0n out and be seen in public. Its very much part of the job. On monday, out and be seen in public. Its very much part of thejob. On monday, one of the points she made was that between now and the wedding, which will be in may, she talked about boots on the ground, that she wanted to get out and about in the uk and commonwealth as much as possible and meet as many people as possible. Thats what today is all about. Not surprisingly, lots of selfies being taken. Its a prime opportunity for selfies. Were going to continue to watch those pictures coming to us from nottingham and well be back with sarah soon. With me is dickie aribiter, former press secretary to the queen and the prince and princess of wales former media manager. Im trying to cast my mind back to when Prince William became engaged to that then Kate Middleton and how quickly did they go out and about on official visits. This seems fast. This is vast and it is interesting watching the pictures. They did walkabout together and now they split. They are on opposite sides of the road. There will be disappointment where harry is. They love harry but also want to meet meghan this is the difficulty when it comes to walkabouts, that both parties are popular, both sides of the road want to meet both parties and some will end up disappointed. William and kate started quite quickly, but you have to remember, by the time they got engaged, we we re by the time they got engaged, we were leading up to the Christmas Period so royal engagements were winding down and were picked up again untiljanuary. This is a slightly different scenario, that harry got engaged, he has an engagement five days later, four days later. He wanted to take meghan to meet the public. The fact that shes doing part of this by herself shows shes very comfortable and hes very comfortable with her. Doing this on her own. Shes an actor. Done the red carpet. Shes done a few walkabouts which is required on the red carpet, to talk to the fans. Its nothing new. The only thing that is new is shes talking to a different type of person. Youre used to talking to americans and canadians. Brits are slightly different. British love the royalfamily slightly different. British love the royal family and love the idea slightly different. British love the royalfamily and love the idea of slightly different. British love the royal family and love the idea of a newly engaged lady with prince harry. Prince harry is incredibly popular. The fact she is engaged to him makes it doubly popular. Here on monday, the engagement had just been announced by Clarence House and we we re announced by Clarence House and we were talking with various commentators about how, actually, she was quite ideally suited to this, given her background, her experience, her need to have dealt with the media, being used to the limelight in her career as an actor. She can cope with the media, shes been doing it all of her working life as an actor. Thats no problem. The problem lies with paparazzi and u nfortu nately we a re the problem lies with paparazzi and unfortunately we are all potential paparazzi because weve all got a telephone with a camera, so we are all there taking pictures as and when we feel like it. On that point, how do you think prince harry is going to feel about the attention that Meghan Markle is receiving, has been receiving, throughout their relationship so far . And now that they are engaged . Given, if you think about what he and his brother, the duke of cambridge, have said about the Media Attention, that was focused on their late mother, do you think he will be concerned about the attention now being focused on his future wife . They will probably be a bit of concern but we talked about this time and time again. She is a media person. Shes an actor. Shes dealt with the media, had a blog. Shes been a self publicist. She knows what its all about and knows when to go out and meet the media and knows when to draw back. The media here in this country, they know how far they can go. Step over the line and theyre likely to get cold shouldered out of anything. Another step never stepped over the line. You have to deal with paparazzi as and when. There is still a balance, despite what you said and the fact she is comfortable with the media, there is a balance to be achieved between that and their private life. There is a balance and i think most people and most people in the media have got used to the idea of how william and harry deal with the media. Theyre not controlling, but theyre giving so not controlling, but theyre giving so much. We saw with the engagement announcement on monday, they held back as to when the wedding would ta ke back as to when the wedding would take place and where the wedding will take place, which led to a lot of speculation. Theyre not controlling, but they know how to work the media and the media know when to accept what theyre actually given. Meghan is pretty strong, pretty tough. Shes been out there, beenin pretty tough. Shes been out there, been in the media world, knows how it works and shes going to live with it. Do stay with us. Well go back to our royal correspondent. The pictures were at now are coming from the camera crew that is with you. Talk us through this and the atmosphere. Yes, we are about halfway down this walk through now. Prince harry on the road from us. I think meghan is probably still shielded from view from this side at the moment. But youll be able to see lots of people with cameras, huge amounts of excitement is building. Everyone hoping to get a first look. As i said earlier, theres a real sense of pride in the city. There she is, there is Meghan Markle, just moving over to join city. There she is, there is Meghan Markle, just moving over tojoin her fiance, prince harry, on the other side. Lots of selfies being taken there. Seems to be coping well with there. Seems to be coping well with the attention at the moment. People obviously on this side hoping shell come back over, but as dickie was saying, shes an actress, shes used to being in public eye but i guess in her position as an actress, this is very much in her position as the latest royal fiancee. Very exciting to have an american member of the family. Theyll swap sides and see as many people as possible, getting as many people as possible, getting a chance to shake hands and get that all important a chance to shake hands and get that all importa nt selfie. A chance to shake hands and get that all important selfie. A young girl beaming there. Her mother, i think, took a picture of her and Meghan Markle. That will be unhurt social media feeds, she will be keen to share that with her friends. Media feeds, she will be keen to share that with her friendslj imagine share that with her friends. imagine there will be a lot of pictures being posted on social media today. A lot of pride for the city of nottingham. We said before, harry has said this city has a special place in his heart and its quite a big thing when you imagine how many royal engagements, how many royal meet and greet us, will now be Meghan Markles life and this is the very first. Harry o, bless him meeting as many people as possible. We should say that the meet and greet here today, this is a day of engagements. There are two engagements. There are two engagements. There are two engagements. The best is highlighting an issue that we know to be very close to prince harrys heart and that is aids, on aids day. Then moving on to a local charity and academy near by, trying to tackle Youth Violence. People here arejust tackle Youth Violence. People here are just bothered about meeting Meghan Markle as much as possible. Meghan markle, born and raised in california. Shes coping with the british climate, i wonder how. Were just going to come away from you for a moment, if we made. Well continue to talk here to the former Buckingham Palace spokesman and royal commentator, dickie. Do you think well be seeing a lot of prince harry and Meghan Markle between now and their wedding on these sorts of engagements . Even if we look at this generation of royals, the duchess of cambridge is due to give birth to her third child in april. She will be out and about as much as she comes to the close of her pregnancy and obviously the birth of their third child. We will see a lot more of harry and meghan out on the road. Meghan is going to be travelling quite a bit back to the states and back to canada because shes got family commitments there, but harry will want her alongside as many engagements as he does because theyre in nottingham, thats just one part of the country. Hes going to other parts of the country and he wants to introduce his bride to other parts of the country. Quite interesting hearing about how nottingham is cold. Meghan has lived in toronto for seven yea rs. Has lived in toronto for seven years. Toronto is unbelievably cold this is not cold by comparison were talking about 10 in toronto in some days and it is pretty windy. Shell be well accustomed to this and much colder. This could feel like summer to and much colder. This could feel like summerto hair and much colder. This could feel like summer to hair she will be going out with harry and he will wa nt going out with harry and he will want her. When theyre actually together, theyre actually putting their arms around each other so this relationship is incredibly close. They do love each other and cant keep their hands off each other. Theyre very tactile, which is nice to see with royal family. Just to repeat, yes, she will be going out with him time and time again. Here they are meeting the public. Behind they are meeting the public. Behind the scenes, dickie, which member is of the royal family will be talking to Meghan Markle, helping her prepare for her life as part of the royalfamily, once prepare for her life as part of the royal family, once the wedding takes place next may . Will the queen, for example, have conversations with her about her future role . Like catherine, who had william as mentors, meghan has harry as a. She doesnt need anybody else. A lot of it is common sense. A lot of it you pick up as you go a long, learn on the road. Harry is quite old fate with what should be done, how it should be done. He will give meghan a few tips. Theyll bounce ideas off each other. Its not sitting down in a classroom and saying, this is how we do it. This is what you can and cant do. Harry is a good mentors. Presumably theyll want they want wa nts to presumably theyll want they want wants to coach her, theyll want her to bring her own style, that breath of fresh air to all of these occasions. She is bringing its now on the walkabout. She brought it with her when there was a photo opportunity in the garden at Kensington Palace on monday. Very tactile. It wasnt sort of standoffish, you could drive a bus between the two of them. The body language was unbelievably loving. You could not drive a bus between the two of them. That will stay with her. She is a very open lady. Shes a great communicator. Shes always got a smile on herface, no matter what, and that is going to be good not only for harry, but good for the royalfamily not only for harry, but good for the royal family and for the uk. Were watching these images from nottingham. In amongst that melee of people there, prince harry and his fiancee, Meghan Markle, making their First Official visit together since the news of their engagement was announced by Clarence House on monday, at the beginning of the week. This is a city that prince harry has visited several times in the last number of months, certainly, and a city which he considers to be very special to him, according to his communications secretary. He said that prince harry was very much looking forward to introducing Meghan Markle to the city, as well. They are going to be doing a number of engagements here, raising awareness of hiv and aids. Dickie . One of the things i want to bring in is besides the hiv and aids pa rt bring in is besides the hiv and aids part of the engagement, which is the Clarence Higgins trust, which is close to harrys mother and which harry and william had taken an interest in, the other is full effect. It is a programme in nottingham, based at saint anne s school young people to get away from idea of crime, to men them. Full par effect is being sponsored by the royal foundation, of which the duke and duchess of cambridge and harry are patrons and once she has the title, in may at st georges chapel, Meghan Markle will also be a patron of the charity. Thats quite an important one because its all about young people getting away from the idea of crime. There are other things to do in life without having to steal and whatever. Its quite fitting that this First Official visit together is about charities. 0bviously shes done a lot of charity work long before she met prince harry, but well see that move towards the charities that the other Younger Generation of the royals are associated with. Absolutely. Its important to have. Shes pushed aside the charity shes been working with although shall probably keep an eye on them. Shell develop her own charities, probably much akin to what shes already been doing and assisting the duke and duchess of cambridge with their charities. Shes already in the humanitarian area as far as work is concerned and shell continue doing that. Just talk to us about the run up to the wedding. Not that far away, what can we expect . Its not that far away. The last royal to get married, albeit without a title, was Peter Phillips in 2008. Prince edward and so