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.

Don't forget the accusations that PP was spending time engaging in an affair with the family friend who was staying at the Farm with him. Even though it was known that he had withdrawn from public life due to his extreme old age!

Yep ! , no need to postpone the Oprah interview! P wasn’t that ill , rf using it as an excuse to “muzzle “ her ….etc …etc 🙄

Well quite! , any one with eyes could see he was very infirm , the likely hood of him being physically able is nil !

Oh and the MM claim 'I telephoned the Queen when i heard' about PP and a look to H - You were still asleep it was about 5 am.

I have doubts about the veracity of that statement. I very much doubt the Queen was taking personal phone calls from MM at that point in the relationship.

We know that’s a lie because Harry told us himself that he could not directly phone the queen! , hence him attempting to give her an unwanted mobile phone! 🤷‍♀️

I think it’s a ref to William and Charles. Harry was also invited to the dinner they had together but he declined.

That’s so full of horse-shit:

1. I would imagine that BP would have informed family directly including PH before the public announcement?
2. Even if they chose not to who on earth would call their husbands grannie before waking their husband to tell him his grandfather had died? Wonder how that conversation went - sorry Liz - I know have shat all over you in the last few weeks whilst PP was on his death bed with the OW interview where we demonised your family but just wanted to pass on my condolences - Harry? No he doesn’t know yet - he’s still snoring away it’s 5am here - so I haven’t woken him up - I thought you would prefer to speak to ME in your hour of need?

I thought BP wasn’t able to rouse H so someone from the Embassy went to the house ?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-harry-meghan-slept-through-24204380

No, I meant that on OW when PP was reported as being ill (not that he had died) MM said she had 'called the Queen'. I'll see if i can find a link somewhere. Sorry, I was not being very clear.

But PP was clearly so desperately ill as the interview happened mere weeks before he died.

https://people.com/royals/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-called-queen-after-prince-philip-hospitalized/

Okay, it's The People magazine but it's verbatim quotes from the interview. I have my doubts. And I mean- whose gonna deny it? The Queen who famously never comments? That's why I believe their actions are so shitty- they make statements about things and about situations and about people who can't comment.

I still think H talking about his disabled matron and the woman he lost his virginity goes to the heart of the person he is- nasty about people who can't fight back.

Yes I meant William and Charles, sorry for confusion.
I didn’t know Harry was invited to join them - I thought they intended to be well clear of him. Plus they were busy discussing matters of state - C becoming King and W becoming POW. I think they had more important things in their minds than Harry.

I do remember Harry looked really shattered the morning after as he left first thing in the morning. I had wondered if he perhaps felt a bit guilty plus Balmoral must have stirred up so many memories for him, not least the night Diana died. I don’t think there was any appetite for family togetherness, he left very early.

”Harry, 36, reiterated his wife's statements, adding, "For so many in my family, what they do is there's a level of control in that because they're fearful of what the papers are going to say about them."
"Whereas with us it was just like, just be yourself," the Duke of Sussex said. "Just be genuine. Just be authentic. If you get it wrong, get it wrong, if you get it right you get it right.”

Hilarious. Delusional and Grandiose. As Ever.

Insanity, all of it

As if it isn't obvious that a 99 year old - even one who's had the best of care - is unlikely to be around long, and that's before you get to the hospital stays he'd had in his last weeks

And I'd forgotten about Meghan claiming she'd "called the Queen"
They just lie and lie and lie again ...

Edited to add, since the Oprah debacle was raised, what the hell were they doing with Harry missing from most of it anyway? Unless they couldn't trust him to control his face as the lies spewed out

Re Harry refusing dinner with William and Charles at Birkhill. According to the press at the time he instead chose to eat with Andrew, Sophie and Edward.

I think that is exactly why he came on later! , he still managed to contradict her statements about “the racist comment “ and it was left in and brushed over!!

There must have been a lot of bad feeling that PH's tantrum about MM delayed the Queen's children from reaching Balmoral.

Sophie was a real trooper and I expect was able to use her PR experience to maintain a calm façade in the carriage. I think also Sophie was a good choice as she is less well known in the US to was a neutral choice. I expect that if Meghan was prepared to sell private pictures from Balmoral she was likely hoping for a "grief money shot" of herself with William, Kate or the kids.

That’s a good point and I hope it’s true - that they made her sit with Sophie because the photos would be less interesting and therefore she would not be part of the main coverage of the day.

(Or Sophie maybe volunteered to relieve the DC and DGC from having to go anywhere near her.)

I imagine KC must have found it very hard to have his son trying to make the death of his mother all about MM. It would have been a very difficult and emotional time for him - losing his remaining parent and being catapulted into his role as King and then to have a son saying ‘but what about ME!’ That dinner could have been such a special moment for the three of them and Harry’s snub could only have been incredibly hurtful. I would find it hard to move past such behaviour.

I also felt so much for everyone on the plane, knowing their last chance to see their mother/grandmother alive was slipping away whilst PH argued about his wife coming along.

Sophie deserves one of the awards given for personal service to the monarch.

MM couldn’t have been sat in a carriage with just anyone, there was important orders of precedence to consider.

MM achieved that though when the Fab Four did the unscheduled Windsor walkabout …. MM did her best school assembly acting with her skittish, nervous, skulking away from the mean girl, mannerisms - so fake, transparent and performative - when only a few days before she was striding about on stage in her Captain Scarlet outfit as the Boss Babe key note speaker of the One Young World conference in Manchester.

There must have been a lot of bad feeling that PH's tantrum about MM delayed the Queen's children from reaching Balmoral

I'm sure there was, @Lunde. Nobody needs angst like that at such a time, but I doubt Harry's ugly behaviour was a surprise to many

However if memory serves, the aircraft hung around for about an hour before leaving and with the drive from Aberdeen to Balmoral they arrived just before 5pm, so regardless of whether the delay was actually about Harry they'd have missed her death anyway

Yes they did miss her death and would have done anyway but it's only with hindsight that we know they could not get there in time. Harry deliberately causing a delay when you are waiting to visit your dying mother/grandmother would be unforgivable to me. The others must have been furious with him.

Harfy would have been fuming about missing the plane. M would havs been fuming about not being invited ans being left alobe in a hostile location ( and you can bet she was calling for updates and a moan).

H himself tells us he gave his dad a row earlier in the day. He would hzvd been spoiling for Round Two at Balmoral.

C and W would have been perfectly in the right, IMHO, to remove themselves from his obnoxious presence thst evening. I would have.