{"id":478349,"date":"2026-03-16T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478349\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:11:08","slug":"harry-and-meghan-pretend-to-be-proper-royals-have-they-no-shame-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478349\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan pretend to be proper royals – have they no shame? | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to travel the world without being hauled over the coals for your carbon footprint, follow Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle<\/a> and embark on a faux-royal<\/a> tour. Next month Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, are following up their widely-criticised fake royal tour to Jordan with another long-haul flight from California<\/a>, this time Down Under.<\/p>\n

In April the Sussexes hope to recreate<\/a> the magic of their 16-day tour to Australia<\/a> in October 2018 when the newly married couple rode a wave of joy and goodwill, boosted by Meghan announcing she was pregnant. Deemed a ‘royal tour,’ the Sussexes visited Bondi Beach, took a boat ride on Sydney Harbour and Prince Harry<\/a> climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge with then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison.<\/p>\n

But two years later Megxit saw the couple step down as working royals and move to the US, before launching a series of money-spinning books and TV shows where they ripped into the Royal Family and spilled Windsor secrets.<\/p>\n

Now royal experts have warned that if Harry and Meghan think love and goodwill are there for them this time, they could be sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n

The timing will not help heal Harry’s rift with his father or his brother Prince William<\/a>, as the Sussexes’ jaunt clashes with King Charles’ official State Visit to the US next month.<\/p>\n

Aussie locals may also be miffed by worrying claims that Meghan is set to appear at a women-only weekend retreat in Sydney, with tickets starting at a staggering \u00a31,400 per person.<\/p>\n

Touted as “a girls’ weekend like no other,” Meghan will speak at a gala dinner, with VIP ticket holders offered front-row seats and a group photo with the duchess.<\/p>\n

It comes days after Meghan’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, announced it had ended its \u00a375m partnership with streaming giant Netflix<\/a> that began in 2020.<\/p>\n

The 300-person Sydney retreat – with talks by a psychologist, yoga, sound healing, a disco and a meditation and manifestation sessions – has been organised by the Her Best Life podcast, founded by Gemma O’Neill and Australian celebrity Jackie “O” Henderson.<\/p>\n

O’Neill told listeners the Q&A with Meghan will take the format of a “fireside chat” and be held at a five-star hotel at Coogee Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said their visit to Australia next month will be for “private, business and philanthropic engagements”.<\/p>\n

But if their faux-royal trip turns into a desperate cash-grab, it will only prove the Queen was right – and they were not suited to a life of duty and selfless service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to travel the world without being hauled over the coals for your carbon footprint, follow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[428,167407,96,170243,59,2744,983,223,106902,170242,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-australia","tag-australia-visit","tag-entertainment","tag-faux-royal-tour","tag-gb","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-tensions","tag-royal-tour","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}