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.

From the Sydney Morning Herald today - sums it up nicely.

In this new era of global upheaval and household hardship, we have so much to learn from an American actor-turned-duchess-turned-entrepreneur-turned-hawker of boutique jams and honey. Really, it’s the ex-royals who are doing us a favour by visiting, not the other way around. Don’t you realise what an honour it is to be graced by their presence? Naturally, that honour comes with a hefty price tag, for Harry and Meghan are laser-focused on building a healthy bank balance.

Link to full story here

Ouch

this, from the comments section of the SMH article sums it better,

”So how many articles have there been over the last few years about Harry and Meghan, Including this paper ? Hundreds.
So the media is still cashing in on them.

Angry articles and angry comments are keeping them famous and newsworthy.

Police protection can’t be provided just for news worthy people every one likes. It also works the other way round.”

Archive version: https://archive.is/kNCzU

The final paragraph is excellent:

Harry and Meghan are free agents and entirely within their rights to earn cash wherever they like. And if people want to part with their hard-earned for access, good luck to them. But do not be fooled: this is no royal visit but a continuation of tone-deaf hawking by a couple estranged from reality. Have they stopped to wonder whether their excruciating business model could be the primary driver behind their spectacular fall from public grace? Might be worth pondering on the private jet ride home.

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Excellent 👏

Worldwide Privacy Tour innit. (Southpark reference).

Is it angry tho ? I see it all as pure ridicule - everyone is laughing at the desperate donkeys - pure entertainment for free. The only angry people are H&M.

And what’s totally delicious about this is that H&M are seemingly unable to tap in to this revenue stream themselves - and worse ,THEIR, almost daily, pantomime contributions from the horses mouth provide more ludicrous content for the world to ridicule them - it’s just so entertaining to see two nasty fools shoot themselves in the foot day in day out. They must be raging that everyone else can cash in on their nonsense and despite their undoubtedly high profile these riches out of their grifting grasp.

Yes this is what's so fascinating about their predicament: people are still interested in them, they will make the headlines, but as a ongoing soap opera of their failures, hubris and embarrassment.

People enjoy watching them but they cannot monetise it and they can't get the adulation they crave. They attract clicks for ridicule. Unintentionally.

The only way this could be monetised would be full in a docusoap format: Life with the Sussexes/ Real Housewives type series, where they play up their ups and downs, the bitching, the wealth, the kids, Hollywood/ monticeto gossip fallouts etc.

I think if M agreed to be on Real Housewives of Monticeto that would fit exactly into the only thing they have left to sell.

That's all she's really doing with her grabbing and gurning at the party she's just pretending it's business dealing cos she's an entrepreneur...

She should be so embarrassed now to have done a podcast series on being a Female Founder.

It was so obviously far too soon to have framed herself in that way, and 1 year later her business is a flop.
Embarrassing.

I doubt she is embarrassed though, which tells us a lot.

The only way this could be monetised would be full in a docusoap format: Life with the Sussexes/ Real Housewives type series, where they play up their ups and downs, the bitching, the wealth, the kids, Hollywood/ monticeto gossip fallouts etc.
I think if M agreed to be on Real Housewives of Monticeto that would fit exactly into the only thing they have left to sell.
If it was anything like the other RHs, they'd gobble her up and spit her out before the first lunch was finished. They can spot inauthenticity a mile off and would swoop in like heat-seeking missiles!! Mind you, I'd be glued!

Now that would be a good show but as we all know Meghan cannot stand competition.

Oh she would never do it with a group. The only way would be like the Kardashians / Osbournes where is main character. But she absolutely would not play up her existing character brand because she is so delusional and grandiose she can’t see it herself.

If anything WLM was exactly this but she didn’t realise it.

Does Meghan actually know how to be herself instead of acting a part anymore?
I have my doubts personally, it doesn’t seem that she is actually herself even with Harry .

South Park had it spot on, she’s an empty vessel.

Harry doesn't seem to care as long as 'she's so hot' (in his own reported words).

From ChatGPT:

A person with narcissistic traits (especially in about:blank Narcissistic Personality Disorder) does have a sense of self, but it’s often:

1. Fragile rather than stable

Their self-image can look very confident or even superior on the surface, but underneath it tends to be unstable. Small criticisms or failures can feel like major threats.

2. Heavily dependent on others

Instead of coming from a secure internal identity, their sense of self often relies on external validation—praise, admiration, status, or control over others.

3. Split or inflated

They may hold an idealized version of themselves (e.g., “I’m exceptional, unique, superior”) that isn’t fully grounded in reality. This helps protect them from feelings of inadequacy.

4. Defensive

To maintain that self-image, they might:

• Deny flaws
• Blame others
• React strongly to criticism (anger, withdrawal, or defensiveness)

A simple way to think about it:

• Healthy sense of self: “I know who I am, including strengths and weaknesses.”
• Narcissistic sense of self: “I must be seen as exceptional—otherwise I feel threatened.”

Must be exhausting if this is your reality.

I suppose if M gave up on her various enterprises which all fail , she would have nothing to do. It keeps her occupied.

I actually think fair play to Meghan to keep trying these enterprises. Ok she hasn’t been successful (probably because she expects success to come too quickly) but good on her for trying to sell jam, podcasts, programmes, celebrity appearances etc. Maybe she will eventually hit the magic formula. Her husband on the other hand….

Yes and no.

If it is activity to avoid reflection and learning, then no.

If it is new efforts based on learning from the results of the past, good on her for not giving up.

I haven't say I don't see any evidence of learning from past efforts, just more of the same.

I have no particular need for her to learn - ok she is more likely to fail that way but even without reflection she may get lucky. I have more issue with how she reportedly treats staff though.

Yes, she may get lucky.

But has far more chance of achieving her dreams if she learns from experience?

But where would be the fun in watching that?

Huge fun!

We don’t want them. Send them back. She hated Australia on her first trip.

She can come to Australia (I concede) but we should not be paying for that privilege! 😠
i was such a Megan and Harry fan when they got together but obviously not so much now
such wasted opportunities