In this week’s Gossip With Celebitchy podcast, CB and I talked about the hate campaign which sprang up around the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s planned trip to Australia. Everything coming out about this trip from Team Sussex has been “we’re visiting Oz in a private capacity, we’re doing some charity work and some paid appearances and that’s it.” That hasn’t stopped the international Deranger community from screaming, crying and throwing up about the Sussexes don’t deserve police protection and the Australian taxpayers should not be on the hook for this trip. Add to that, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have clearly been directing a lot of fuel to this hateful fire as well. Last week, the Sussexes’ spokesperson actually clapped back on the record, reiterating that the Oz visit is being “funded privately” and calling out the stupidity of the change.org petition. Well, now a “source close to Prince Harry and Meghan” has clapped back even harder.

A source close to Prince Harry and Meghan Meghan has delivered a scathing response to the “misinformation” surrounding their upcoming trip to Australia, branding the backlash as “irrational” hate bait.

While some critics have dubbed the jaunt a “pseudo-royal” tour and a petition has circulated regarding the cost to taxpayers, the Sussexes’ camp has hit back, insisting the trip is entirely privately funded. According to those in their inner circle, the couple is heading Down Under for legitimate work and to shine a light on charitable causes like the Invictus Games – and argued that the world could use “a little more Harry and Meghan” and a little less “sad” sniping.

Someone who knows the couple tells the Mirror: “There is a lot of misinformation being spread about this trip – all designed to whip up hate. The truth is you have a couple heading down under for work. While they’re in town, they’re going to check-in on some charitable causes that they have long supported and – in the Duke’s case with the Invictus Games – he set-up. The couple are critically aware that by just visiting a charity, they can help shine a light on its work – bringing media attention that wouldn’t otherwise exist. They don’t have to do that,” the source continues.

“They could just as easily get paid and head straight back to California. It’s an irrational reaction to s***-can a couple who just want to support some of the charitable causes close to them. God forbid they try to do any good in a world that could, frankly, use a little more Harry and Meghan, and a little less sniping from ‘Royal Commentators’ who make a living by [providing] hate bait for anyone willing to platform them. It’s sad. What a way to make a living.”

Much has been made from critics that the couple seem to be operating on a basis that is not that dissimilar from the official royal tours they once undertook as working members of the House of Windsor – with the terms ‘quasi and pseudo-royal’ regularly thrown around.

[From The Daily Mirror]

If this is actually someone in the Sussexes’ camp, god bless. It feels like they’re so tired of dealing with some of the dumbest people out there. I’m not just talking about the deranged community, I’m talking about the royal commentators and the Kensington Palace clownshow too. It’s infuriating to watch these (stupid) people argue variations of “Harry and Meghan are going on a royal tour which will bilk Australians out of all of their tax dollars” while simultaneously arguing that Harry and Meghan are evil incarnate for doing commercial work and private charity work.

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