PREGNANT Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were greeted in New Zealand with a traditional Maori welcome after landing in the country for the final leg of their Pacific tour.

The royal couple, who have already visited Australia, Fiji and Tonga, were received in the nation's capital Wellington by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Prince Harry and wife Meghan each performed a "hongi" with indigenous Maori elders, in which they pressed noses together to share a breath.

They were welcomed with traditional haka performances and a 21-gun salute at Government House in the capital, Wellington.

On Friday Meghan led tributes to the "amazing" Invictus Games organisers and athletes during the event's closing ceremony in Sydney.

The royal couple flew from Australia on Sunday after closing the games in Sydney and were accompanied by several athletes from New Zealand.

Meghan had praised the "unshakeable bond" between servicemen and women and the "camaraderie and close-knit sense of community" she witnessed.

Those among the crowd included David Beckham and his son Romeo, who have been photographed at several games events over the past few days.

Meghan wore a brown checkered coat and a simple black dress, while Harry was in a dark grey suit.

The duchess swapped from the high neck burgundy Hugo Boss she had worn to board the plane in Australia.

Both had remembrance poppy pins on their chests.

On Sunday evening, the couple will attend a reception celebrating the 125th anniversary of women's suffrage. New Zealand became the first country in the world where women could vote in parliamentary elections in 1893.

The royal pair are on day 13 of their 16 day tour of Australia and surrounding nations.

They will fly into Wellington and are scheduled to visit a newly unveiled UK War Memorial.

The couple are scheduled to spend four days in New Zealand where they will meet PM Ardern, who became only the second world leader to give birth while in office.

They will also go for a trail walk in a national park, meet young people training to be part of Wellington's film industry, and visit a hatchery for New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi.

Prince Harry ended the games in Sydney with a speech in front of a crowd of 12,000 people at the closing ceremony, in which he thanked the 500 competitors from 18 nations.