Prince Harry and Meghan’s huge Aussie plans revealed. Visit to Sydney and Melbourne in Mid-April​.

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Prince Harry and Meghan’s huge Aussie plans revealed. Visit to Sydney and Melbourne in Mid-April.

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More than seven years after then-newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan embarked on their hugely successful Aussie tour, the couple is reportedly heading back Down Under.

A source confirmed exclusively to news.com.au that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to visit Sydney and Melbourne in mid-April.

While their last trip to our shores was in an official capacity as working members of the royal family, this time around they’re travelling as private citizens – and it’s understood they’ll be focusing on activities related to their businesses and philanthropic work.

Details of their specific plans remain unclear, but it’s been rumoured that Meghan will appear as a guest on the Her Best Life podcast, which was initially launched and co-hosted by Jackie “O” Henderson and Gemma O’Neill through their “Besties” company. Earlier this year, just a couple of weeks before her high-profile and abrupt recent exit from her KIIS breakfast show, Henderson revealed that she had decided to “step away” from the venture.

It’s rumoured that Meghan will also appear as a special guest at an upcoming “Besties” event, following in the footsteps of previous VIP speaker Gwyneth Paltrow.

The actress took part in a wide-ranging Q&A with Henderson back in 2023 which attracted around 3,000 ticketholders to the ICC in Sydney’s Darling Harbour – so Meghan’s appearance could be in a similar capacity.
Despite Henderson’s recent departure from the Besties company, she hinted last month that she may return in some capacity in the future - and perhaps Meghan’s involvement could be one such occasion.

Gwyneth Paltrow was the special guest at a Besties event, run by Henderson (left) and Gemma O'Neill, back in 2023 – and Meghan is now rumoured to follow in her footsteps. Picture: Supplied
While details of the couple’s itinerary are expected to be confirmed in the coming weeks, it’s likely that Harry’s plans will involve Australia’s armed forces or veterans’ community, given his strong connections to both.

It’s understood he also has a number of friends locally, fostered across multiple previous visits, including during his month-long stay with the ADF at an army barracks in Darwin back in 2015.
And in his 2023 memoir, Harry gushed over his time living in Australia as a 19-year-old in 2003.
He wrote in Spare that working as a jackaroo on a farm in rural Queensland had helped him find inner peace during what were “some of the best” weeks of his life.

It’s not yet known whether the Sussexes’ children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, will join them on the trip next month or stay back at the family’s home in Montecito, California.

News.com.au understands that the royal couple’s Aussie visit has been in the works for almost a year.

"You don’t have to like MM to see the evidence that PH post MM is not a different person to PH pre MM"

Really, that surprises me!

For me, you don't have to dislike the couple to agree that PH post-Meghan is miles apart, both in character and in the life he leads, from PH pre-Meghan.

I mean, I think it's one of the very few things people on these H&M threads can agree on. "He's changed - for the better: he's finally found his voice/his freedom/his moral compass", versus "he's changed - for the worse: he's jobless and rudderless, and without the grey suits to manage his public image we can see right through his hypocrisy".

Don’t know how he’s changed specifically but there must be something in it if ALL of his friends and family have dropped him.

Really? I’m surprised you think that. For better or worse, Harry seems like a completely different person since meeting Meghan.

One word: “Spare”

Can you give any specifics?

Your post made me think of this but usually it is gorgeous lovely cats. 😂

Were these two an item at any point?

Have you read Spare? He gives plenty of specifics in there. I suggest you read/reread it and you’ll have your examples there in his own words.

Examples of a change of character? No

Read the whole book and you will see the change of character occurring before your very eyes!

Yes Marcus Anderson is a strange one, I read he changed his name at some point and his background is very well hidden too, even his age. He apparently was in a relationship with Omid Scobie, but no proof of that, his career seems to be solely focused on being a fixer for Soho house clients, arranging connections. He features so much in Meghan’s married life, he is a peculiar one.

Not that I’ve heard, I thought he was gay but I could be wrong.

I mean an objective examples not the narrative PH spins about himself.

My two cents for what it’s worth is that Prince Harry has not fundamentally changed character since meeting Meghan. I think he’s always been entitled, arrogant, bitter about his status, and ignorant. But pre Meghan I think he had good counsel around him, much better PR, and people that kept the worst of his character in line.

I don’t think Meghan changed him, I think she just brought to the surface all the character faults that were already there, fed and watered his grievances and stirred his petty jealousies into a toxic pit of anger.

I agree.

I agree and she did that from a point of ignorance too of what royal duties encompassed. She had a Hollywood Disney view of a Prince and so she came right with - they do what? Oh I'm not doing that? Why are you not " as important" ? You have to curtsey? It's like the Medieval Times dinner show. Why is there protocol etc ? She'd scrabbled her way up the ladder and thought it was going to continue with her well practised ways of hugging, rubbing backs, simpering, sitting on the right laps and worming her way into the right spotlights. Oops !

It wasn’t just royal protocol that she came up against, it was also the cultural differences between the US and the UK. I have know quite a few people who have moved here from American and they have nearly all be shocked by how culturally different it is. They think because we speak the same language (which is itself not as true as they assumed) everything else must be very similar.

Which is why she should have accepted the help and support offered .

I think the men in grey suits carefully curated his PR and image so that he could just turn up and wave. He seems to have been allowed to focus on things that interested him like the military, polo, Diana charities and red carpet events. I can't remember him doing the sort of factory/industry/farming visits that make up the bread and butter of most royal engagements.

Also I don't think that Harry ever got involved in the admin side and as a consequence had no idea what the lifestyle he lived actually required in logistics or truly cost.

Apparently you not only share a room with a stranger on this luxury wellness retreat, you could also be sharing a king bed with a stranger😂😂. Luxury indeed !

Did I read that Meghan isn’t staying the whole weekend , she is only attending the event where she is the key note speaker ?

Probably as no one wanted to share with her 😉

More likely, having snagged the prize, she was never intending to stick around and so didn't bother learning or trying to fit in.

The fact that she had so little to complain about regarding the way the RF treated her - in fact, were any of her Oprah complains not lies? - indicates just how carefully the RF managed her (out).

More likely, having snagged the prize, she was never intending to stick around and so didn't bother learning or trying to fit in

This has been my own view almost from the start, @Rhaidimiddim

You could even argue that she needed manufactured dramas - the false assertions that the kids' had been denied titles, the carry on over non existent paparazzi, the ridiculous claim that no help was available and all the rest - in order to ramp up a narrative to pull Harry into line

A wiser man might have paused to reflect, but unfortunately that's the last thing Harry's shown himself to be and here we are

I was reading the old article from the Cut that Meghan did and one of the things she was complaining about was the lack of control she had over Royal photos. In fact she said .....