{"id":526790,"date":"2026-03-08T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526790\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:07:09","slug":"harry-and-meghan-to-visit-australia-nearly-eight-years-after-last-royal-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526790\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan to visit Australia nearly eight years after last royal tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/a> will visit Australia<\/a> next month for a number of engagements.<\/p>\n

Their children, Prince Archie<\/a> and Princess Lilibet, will not be going with them, it is understood.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the couple said: \u201cPrince Harry <\/a>and Meghan<\/a>, Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/a>, will visit Australia in mid-April to take part in a number of private, business and philanthropic engagements.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther details will be shared in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sussexes carried out an official royal tour to Australia in 2018, five months after their royal wedding, and Meghan\u2019s pregnancy with Prince Archie was announced shortly after their arrival.<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan at the Invictus Games 2018 opening ceremony in Sydney (Dominic Lipinski\/PA)<\/p>\n

The couple had a busy two-day trip to Jordan last month, to learn more about the humanitarian effort to support the health and wellbeing of Syrians and Palestinians who have sought sanctuary in the country.<\/p>\n

The couple hugged and comforted young cancer patients and their families when they heard the stories of their experiences at the King Hussein Cancer Centre, and the duke urged a group at the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts to go back to their communities and help others, telling them: \u201cThere\u2019s no shame in having an addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meghan and Harry also joined a discussion hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with individuals from leading bodies like the United Nations<\/a> and many of its agencies, diplomatic representatives and donors.<\/p>\n

The couple, who stepped down as working royals in 2020 for personal and financial freedom, travelled to Jordan at the invitation of the WHO\u2019s director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n

They also met World Central Kitchen staff co-ordinating food relief for Gaza from the Jordanian capital, Amman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit Australia next month for a number of engagements. Their children,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,262019,127104,137934,183879,44,76958,5513,76957],"class_list":{"0":"post-526790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-duke-and-duchess","11":"tag-engagements","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-and-harry","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-prince-archie","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-princess-lilibet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}