The Duchess of Sussex posted a lovely behind-the-scenes video of the Australian “tour” last week. We got some lovely clips of their events, both private and public, and I cannot believe the size of Prince Harry’s steak. That man went to Australia and said “GIVE ME MEAT.” He doesn’t even have any sides! No baked potato, no green beans, no side salad. Just a steak as big as a dinner plate.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects spent the entire weekend screaming and whining about the Sussexes’ Oz tour. Which is how you know it was a galloping success – these people wouldn’t be this mad if any of their sabotage and smears had worked. The BBC likely got some calls from Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace, so the BBC dutifully published this pitiful piece: “Harry and Meghan’s trip felt like a royal tour – except many Aussies weren’t interested.” They quoted that same “associate professor,” Giselle Bastin, who has been widely quoted across legitimate British media outlets for the past two weeks. Bastin is trying to make a name for herself as a Sussex hater, and someone too compromised or stupid to speak with any honesty:
Most Australians the BBC spoke to were either unaware or uninterested in the couple’s visit. There has been some backlash too, after it emerged Australian taxpayers may be saddled with some of the security costs for their public events.
“If they think it’s gone well, it’s because nothing has gone wrong,” says Giselle Bastin, an associate professor at Flinders University with a research interest in Australia’s relationship with the monarchy.
“They didn’t turn up at great big advertised opportunities to see them, at least not in the form of walkabouts, so they’ve managed to minimise the risk of people having a negative reaction, or hecklers calling out or booing them or anything like that. It has been very carefully controlled so that they just sort of spontaneously appear at places.”
That’s not to say Harry and Meghan haven’t been in their element during such encounters, high-fiving fans and taking selfies with them.
“They didn’t turn up at great big advertised opportunities to see them, at least not in the form of walkabouts…” They were literally swarmed with hundreds, if not thousands, of people at Bondi Beach. At their preannounced visit at a local college, hundreds of students gathered to catch a glimpse of Harry & Meghan. There were hundreds of Australians waiting for H&M at the Melbourne hospital too. This woman is an idiot.
Meanwhile, another big sign that the Sussexes’ Australian tour has everyone rattled over in Salt Island? Commentators are so mad that they’re now attacking Australians for coming out to support H&M. The Mail published an unhinged column in which Amanda Goff called out Australians BY NAME for their support of the Sussexes. Robert Jobson has been huffing and puffing (literally, that man can barely breathe) over the tour and how “Australians will come out for anything.”
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- Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are seen visiting the Victorian Veterans Museum in Melbourne when Harry has a brief near miss with a passing cyclist. Pictured: Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 14 APRIL 2026 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Prince Harry and Meghan Markle take part in an educational Aboriginal walk on the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 16 APRIL 2026 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Melbourne, AUSTRALIA Prince Harry & Meghan Markle attend Swinburne University in Hawthorn, Melbourne. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 16 APRIL 2026 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Sydney, AUSTRALIA Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spend the afternoon on Sydney Harbour sailing with Invictus Australia. Pictured: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 17 APRIL 2026 BYLINE MUST READ: KHAP / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- The Duke of Sussex is presented with a Western Bulldogs scarf during a visit to Movember at the Western Bulldogs HQ at Mission Whitten Oval, in Footscray, Melbourne, on day two of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 15 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex views the Captain Reg Saunders wall at the Australian War Memorial in Campbell, Canberra, on day two of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Canberra, Australia When: 15 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex views the Wall of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial in Campbell, Canberra, on day two of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Canberra, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke of Sussex lays a wreath during the Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Campbell, Canberra, on day two of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Canberra, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Duchess of Sussex takes part in the Scar Tree Walk in Melbourne, Victoria, on day three of the royal trip to Australia. The Scar Tree Walk is a journey connecting traditional and contemporary Aboriginal cultures and histories of the Kulin Nation Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 16 Apr 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex hold a dog at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, after taking part in a sailing event with members of Invictus Australia in Sydney Harbour, on day four of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Sydney, Australia When: 17 Apr 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex pose for a selfie photo with wellwishers at Man O’War Steps, next to the Sydney Opera House, before taking part in a sailing event with members of Invictus Australia in Sydney Harbour, on day four of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Sydney, Australia When: 17 Apr 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- A wellwisher presents the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with a framed photograph of Harry with her mother Daphne Dunn, as they arrive at the Man O’War Steps, next to the Sydney Opera House, before taking part in a sailing event with members of Invictus Australia in Sydney Harbour, on day four of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Sydney, Australia When: 17 Apr 2026 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
So someone who seems like a deranger, who wasn’t there, who didn’t see the thousands of people at events that basically had no publicity, believes blah blah. What a loser and frankly a moron. Ha ha. Anything to soothe the sad left behinds. Imagine have that job of soothing their hurt butts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Are these people deranged!? We have eyes, they are mad cause their weeks of trying to sabotage is what flopped and not the Sussex trip and reception. I actually think it was more cheerful than when they went as working royals.
Almost 30 million people live in Australia. You can say this about anything, in any country. Very few Americans will be interested in Charles’ visit and very few were interested in William and Kate in Boston or New York. Re: the professor, I didn’t know Ph Ds were available in being royal gossip rota nowadays
I live in a small suburban town in the UK when Beyonce was here for her tour I bet if you had asked many people in my town, especially the older demographic if they were interested they would have said no. Does that mean Beyonce is unpopular in the UK and everyone hates her? Of course not.
Point well made.
Exactly. Australia is huge. I’m sure there were many who didn’t care and I’m sure the bbc looked for those types of people to interview. But enough did care and showed out and it looked sweet. And honestly, saying it’s gone well bc nothing has gone wrong? The Wales could only be so lucky to say the same.
It is true that Harry and Meghan didn’t publicise the timing and location of many of their events but this was for security reasons. They don’t have the security to cope with the kind of crowds they got in 2018. That being said it was heartwarming to see how many people spontaneously turned up to meet them as news of them being at a location spread. The overall feeling was so warm and welcoming. Not stiff, formal and forgettable like Charles and Camilla’s last visit (who remembers anything about that except Charles being heckled in parliament?).
That academic should be embarrassed going around talking about rumours and hearsay like they were facts. So unprofessional…
I remember nothing about that tour
“They didn’t turn up at great big advertised opportunities to see them, at least not in the form of walkabouts, so they’ve managed to minimise the risk of people having a negative reaction, or hecklers calling out or booing them or anything like that.”
I’m sorry what celebrity would do that? Who puts themselves in positions to go places where they would be heckled? These aren’t politicians that have to meet their constiuents regardless. They are upset that two people that privately paid for a business trip didn’t go places where they would be unwelcome?
See, they weren’t there as representatives of the British government. So they didn’t have to go places where royalists could shake their fist at them. So it’s not them dodging it, it’s them saying you don’t want to see me? Bet.
And again, having that level of control is what bothers them. How dare you not show up so we can throw tomatoes at you? It’s not fair that you can opt out of attending events or going places that you feel like doesn’t match what you’re trying to do.
As for these commentators, they’re doing the same thing they always do. Insulting entire countries, organizations, and industries in an effort to insult the Sussexes. And then they’ll simultaneously wonder why no one is trying to hear it for the BRF.
BP and KP must be blowing up the phone lines and chat groups over the Sussex’s success and the size of their crowds.. yes Willy, Harold’s crowds are bigger than yours and his wife is hotter. The rage briefings coming from the palaces are definitely unhinged at this point I expect the fail to follow blindly but the BBC should do better before they are just another tabloid like the others.
This is actually hysterical. You just have to imagine a broad Aussie accent, and a deadpan tone, drawling, “Come off it, mate. Give it over.” LOL.
Exactly all this resentment and outrage because Meghan and Harry had a great tour is pathetic. As in Jabba jabs his fingers and demands no one likes the couple because he doesn’t!? Jabba isn’t Moses and he can’t part the Red Sea and decide for free thinking Aussies who they can or can’t welcome in their own country. Who does he think he is? He only speaks for himself, surely? Who gives a tinker’s cuss about his views?
H&M don’t really need to “pre-announce” to draw the crowds. We’ve even seen it over here in the UK that once people knew Harry was in the area they waited and stayed for a glimpse. The same can now be said of Australia. The Bondi beach and the War Memorial wasn’t announced but, once people knew they were there they stayed and waited. Even with their pre-announcements KCIII and Camilla couldn’t draw the kinds of crowds Harry and Meghan were drawing. The BBC are (once again) showing that they’re no longer an impartial news outlet.
Slightly OT – After seeing/hearing Jobson’s latest rant repeatedly appearing on my Twitter feed I had a look at his Twitter page and was surprised to see Jobson had re-tweeted a post from a high profile right wing politician from the Reform party. Given the party’s stance on immigration and people of colour it now makes perfect sense as to why Jobson loathes Meghan with a passion and wanted to see Archie dangled over the balcony. I’ve now blocked the vile man and hope that fellow squaddies stop giving him oxygen.
Sour grapes are just that and only make them sound more unhinged and obsessed with trashing a harmless couple who had a stonkingly successful tour of Australia. It cheered me up and made me smile that not everybody swallows the daily lies circulated about them. They are authentic, warm and approachable and Australians responded positively to that rapport. Jabba has Official PoWs who can visit Australia anytime they like. It is a large country and Wilbur is going to be it’s king one day. Oz PM has invited him and his family so why not do good and undertake a royal tour and make Jabba happy and proud!? Why resent Meg and Harry ‘s success unless Jabba and co know that Wilbur has given up touring with wifey altogether??
Poor old BBC, they don’t know to what tune to dance…
Not many Australians were interested in Meghan and Harry – duh! But ALL Australians would be interested if it were Willy and Kate, right? Er, NOPE!
Heck, many Brits in Britain aren’t interested in their own royals – check the latest polls!
The bile thrown at these two thoroughly decent people is exhausting. Living in an age of unbridled hate is exhausting.
All I know from watching is that the Sussex’s didn’t have an empty barricade in sight unlike the leftovers do for every engagement not held in a shopping area or school where the people/children are used as filler for photos. One thing I do believe is that the crowds were not expected by KP, BP or the tabloids and it shows in the talking points they are putting out that come across as ridiculous bordering on insanity.
I’m laughing at this man’s huffy “If they think it’s gone well, it’s because nothing has gone wrong”. Erm, correct? That’s typically how one measures success? It’s a fairly low bar to be sure, but one that many “official” royal tours do not clear.
Need I remind Bastin about the Cambridge Caribbean Colonial Cosplay Catastrophe? Or the previous tour in the South Pacific where they allowed themselves to be carried on thrones on people’s shoulders. All they had to do was not embarrass themselves or the realm, and they could not even do that.
Hmmm, if they want to hold onto Australia as a Commonwealth nation, insulting and ignoring them doesn’t seem like the best strategy.
The press is just mad that the visit was a success and contrary to what they were saying people were happy to see them.