{"id":389649,"date":"2026-04-21T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389649\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:18:09","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-receive-surprise-from-archie-and-lilibet-after-australia-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389649\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan receive surprise from Archie and Lilibet after Australia | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> returned from Australia<\/a> to a sweet surprise from their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Meghan uploaded a video to Instagram to show how the couple returned to find a “Welcome Home” banner adorning their doorway.<\/p>\n

Meghan also posted a clip displaying multiple Australian souvenirs and treats, seemingly for kids, including Tim Tams (a popular chocolate biscuit in Australia), sweets, picture books, as well as a handwritten card.<\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex travelled to Australia for a trip mixing private, business and philanthropic engagements, with a schedule that began on Tuesday, April 14.<\/p>\n

The scheduled trip took them to the cities of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney, and Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan both candidly spoke about their own mental wellness during separate events.<\/p>\n

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also undertook private meetings and special projects while abroad, and Meghan headlined at Her Best Life podcast’s “girls weekend” retreat.<\/p>\n

Harry and Meghan’s 2026 Australia trip marked their first return to the continent since their official royal tour there in October 2018.<\/p>\n

The couple’s children, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4, did not join them in Australia<\/a>, and the kids similarly didn’t tag along for their humanitarian trip to Jordan in February nor to Colombia or Nigeria last year.<\/p>\n

Also on hand to greet them when they returned from Australia was Harry and Meghan’s excited Labrador, Pula, who wagged her tail enthusiastically as she led the way inside.<\/p>\n

Meghan also took to her Instagram<\/a> grid to share a compilation of unseen moments from her and her husband’s trip Down Under.<\/p>\n

The caption read: “Australia, you have our hearts…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle returned from Australia to a sweet surprise from their children, Prince Archie and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,156,196956,201619,152524,4866,111,139,69,19694,3578,19697,3164],"class_list":{"0":"post-389649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-meghan-harry-australia","11":"tag-meghan-harry-australia-trip","12":"tag-meghan-harry-news","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-prince-archie","18":"tag-prince-harry","19":"tag-princess-lilibet","20":"tag-royal-family"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}