It was the first time the Sussex couple were back in Australia since 2018, when they first visited as working members of the Royal Family. Despite this visit lacking the pomp and pageantry of the first one, several royal watchers noted its royal undertone.
Now, a royal commentator has criticised their efforts and accused them of holding on to their royal links.
Lee Cohen, a US-based columnist/royal and foreign policy commentator, told GB News: “Two private individuals, representing no institution but themselves, staged events mirroring the working-royal formula they rejected in 2020.
“This is not their first such performance. It is one of many. Previous fantasy royal tours to Colombia and Nigeria saw the Sussexes cosplay as royals in good standing, with official-style engagements and staged humanitarian moments.”
Mr Cohen accused Harry and Meghan of “commercialising” the connection they “disowned”.
He explaimed: “That refusal to disappear, that determination to harm the institution while profiting from its aura, elevates them in shame beyond even Edward and Wallis.
“It makes them the most contemptible public figures of our times.”
The royal commentator then delivered a brutal verdict on the couple’s future and said: “The monarchy will outlast them. Britain will outlast them.
“But the memory of these calculated spectacles will remain as proof of how completely they failed to step aside with dignity.”
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