{"id":606641,"date":"2026-04-14T17:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606641\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:07:14","slug":"duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-arrive-in-melbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606641\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry\u2019s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, opened the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital on Flemington Road in 1963, calling it a \u201cmonument to Victoria\u2019s humanity and public spirit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His parents followed in 1985, when Diana, <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/culture\/movies\/what-does-our-fascination-with-princess-diana-say-about-us-20220811-p5b94y.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess of Wales<\/a>, and Prince Charles visited.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Princess Diana and Prince Charles at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in 1985.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8dbf499ba6897367d96f599c3fcce3a9dbe8967a.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Princess Diana and Prince Charles at the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in 1985.Fairfax Archives<\/p>\n<p>The original building has since been replaced, but the hospital remains on the same stretch of road \u2013 reopened by the <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/melburnians-and-the-queen-20111026-1mkg1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queen in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Prince Harry will return under different circumstances. No longer working royals, Harry and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex will kick off their Australian visit \u2013 a quasi-royal tour \u2013 at the same site, which has served as a consistent stop on royal itineraries.<\/p>\n<p>Patients picked to meet the pair were only told this morning and have started making their way to the hospital entrance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth II at Melbourne Airport during her October 2011 trip.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a2d3260a7c3a62d61c2a5efe32ade687a5be5d97.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Queen Elizabeth II at Melbourne Airport during her October 2011 trip.Craig Abraham <\/p>\n<p>Courtney and her son, Archer, 11 are at the hospital for a clinical visit from Koo Wee Rup. When she heard about the visit, she decided to pop down and secured a place at the front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something to do while we\u2019re in here. Get a bit of excitement for the day,\u201d Courtney said. <\/p>\n<p>Royal watchers may get a brief glimpse of the LA-based pair, who are expected to arrive around lunchtime, after jetting in from Los Angeles overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry\u2019s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, opened the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital on Flemington Road in 1963, calling it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-606641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606641","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=606641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}