Their first public engagement was at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II opened the facility in 1963 and his parents, Princess Diana and the then-Prince Charles, visited in 1985. The Sussexes shook hands with dozens of well-wishers and were filmed by hundreds of onlookers’ phones as they entered the hospital foyer.
Harry and Meghan’s trip has been shrouded by controversy, as although they insist it is privately funded, taxpayers cash has been used to safeguard the couple’s security.
Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper described the latest visit as a ”faux royal tour to shore up Brand Sussex.”
Giselle Bastin, a Flinders University expert on the British royals, said the Sussexes’ decision to use their titles to pursue private interests will be perceived by many as a conflict of interest.
“It’s well known that the Sussexes are in dire need of income and so a staging of a quasi-royal tour to Australia is being regarded as a rather desperate attempt to monetise their status as royalty,” she said.
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