First Lady inspires schoolgirls

US first lady Michelle Obama delighted a group of inner-city London schoolgirls with a personal message that education is “the ultimate key” and “the world needs more girls like you”.

Once the ear-splitting screaming and cheering had died down, students from the Mulberry School For Girls in the heart of London’s East End retook their seats and heard Obama call for more help for the world’s poorest girls to get educated.

Earlier, Obama, her daughters Malia, 16, and Sasha, 14, and her mother, Marian Robinson, took tea with Prince Harry at Kensington Palace. Harry, 30, who is known to get on well with Obama, was delighted to meet her family, Kensington Palace said.