{"id":2330723,"date":"2026-03-16T05:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2330723"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:54:16","slug":"harry-and-meghan-pretend-to-be-proper-royals-have-they-no-shame-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/harry-and-meghan-pretend-to-be-proper-royals-have-they-no-shame-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Meghan pretend to be proper royals &#8211; have they no shame? | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you want to travel the world without being hauled over the coals for your carbon footprint, follow <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\">Prince Harry<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a> and embark on a faux-<a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Royal Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/royal-family\">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 <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"California\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/california\">California<\/a>, this time Down Under.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In April the <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2181681\/meghan-markle-interview-turned-down\">Sussexes hope to recreate<\/a> the magic of their 16-day tour to <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/australia\">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 &#8216;royal tour,&#8217; the Sussexes visited Bondi Beach, took a boat ride on Sydney Harbour and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Harry<\/a> climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge with then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The timing will not help heal Harry&#8217;s rift with his father or his brother <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-william\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince William<\/a>, as the Sussexes&#8217; jaunt clashes with King Charles&#8217; official State Visit to the US next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>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<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Touted as &#8220;a girls&#8217; weekend like no other,&#8221; Meghan will speak at a gala dinner, with VIP ticket holders offered front-row seats and a group photo with the duchess.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It comes days after Meghan&#8217;s lifestyle brand, As Ever, announced it had ended its \u00a375m partnership with streaming giant <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Netflix<\/a> that began in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The 300-person Sydney retreat &#8211; with talks by a psychologist, yoga, sound healing, a disco and a meditation and manifestation sessions &#8211; has been organised by the Her Best Life podcast, founded by Gemma O&#8217;Neill and Australian celebrity Jackie &#8220;O&#8221; Henderson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill told listeners the Q&amp;A with Meghan will take the format of a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; and be held at a five-star hotel at Coogee Beach in Sydney&#8217;s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said their visit to Australia next month will be for &#8220;private, business and philanthropic engagements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But if their faux-royal trip turns into a desperate cash-grab, it will only prove the Queen was right &#8211; and they were not suited to a life of duty and selfless service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to travel the world without being hauled over the coals for your carbon footprint, follow Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and embark on a faux-royal 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, this time Down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[21823,451411,451647,34927,22730,22769,287810,402500],"class_list":["post-2330723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-australia","tag-australia-visit","tag-faux-royal-tour","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-tensions","tag-royal-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Harry-and-Meghan-pretend-to-be-proper-royals-have.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330725,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330723\/revisions\/2330725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}