Here are more photos from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s events today in Melbourne, Australia. I’m including photos from their visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, where they spoke to kids and staffers at the Kelpie garden, and Meghan’s solo visit to McAuley Community Services for Women. That’s a women’s shelter and DV shelter. Meghan worked in the kitchen for a bit and met some of the women there. People Magazine pointed out that Harry’s mother and father visited the same hospital back in the 1980s, and QEII also visited it once. If you couldn’t tell from the weeks of British-media tantrums preceding the Sussexes’ arrival, the entire royal media apparatus wants this visit to fail, and they’re going out of their way to ruin the visit as well. The Times of London ran a hysterically unhinged story about how Harry and Meghan are “using Australians like an ATM!” You guys…
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been accused of using Australia “like an ATM” as they start a four-day visit with events where tickets to see them speak cost between £260 and £1,675. Harry and Meghan will visit Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney during their stay with a programme that a spokesman said would “focus on mental health, community resilience and support for veterans and their families, alongside private meetings and special projects”.
Harry has been lined up as a guest speaker at the InterEdge Summit in Melbourne on Thursday, which is set to explore the “vital space where individual wellbeing and organisational responsibility meet” and the “intersection of leadership, psychosocial safety and human connection in the workplace”. Delegate tickets for the two-day conference, hosted at Melbourne’s Centrepiece conference venue, are available for £525, with platinum tickets priced at £1,250 and a “virtual ticket allowing on-demand access to Harry’s speech” costing £260.
During the couple’s visit, Meghan will be interviewed on stage at a “girls’ weekend” retreat in Sydney, costing £1,400 per ticket. VIP tickets for the event at the five-star InterContinental Coogee Beach hotel cost £1,675 and include a group table photo with the duchess. So far, however, the retreat appears to be not fully booked. As of Monday night, the event’s website was continuing to market “a handful of additional rooms just released”.
It is not clear how much Harry and Meghan are being paid for their appearances on the trip. It is understood that the duke and duchess are travelling without their children, Archie, six, and Lilibet, four.
One Melbourne newspaper reported the planned visit on Monday with a headline which read: “No One Cares about Sussex’s ‘Faux’ tour.”
Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald put it even more bluntly: “Australia was good to Harry and Meghan. Now they want to use us as an ATM.”
Meghan has trademarked her brand As Ever with the Australian authorities, which would grant her the right to sell products ranging from candles to garden ornaments in the jurisdiction under the name “As Ever”. So far its products include gift boxes of jams and honey.
What part of a “mix of commercial and philanthropic events” do these people not f–king understand? And the thing about Harry and Meghan making paid appearances is that literally NO ONE IS BEING FORCED TO PAY FOR THEM. You have free will – if you do not want to buy a £1,400 ticket, you do not have to. If you don’t want to pay to hear Harry’s thoughts on mental health, no one is holding a gun to your wallet and forcing you to type in your credit card number. And IF Meghan does an As Ever pop-up – which I don’t actually think will happen – then no one will force Australians to buy her jam! What is their problem?
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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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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex during a visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, on day one of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex takes part a therapy session in the Kelpie garden with adolescent patients during a visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, on day one of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex take part in a therapy session in the Kelpie garden with adolescent patients and staff members during a visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, on day one of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex with adolescent patients and staff members in the Kelpie garden during a visit to the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, on day one of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Melbourne, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duchess of Sussex, alongside staff members, serves lunch to a resident during a visit to McAuley Community Services for Women, a women’s homeless and family violence shelter in Footscray, in Melbourne, Victoria, on day one of the royal trip to Australia. Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Footscray, Australia When: 14 Apr 2026 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Derangers at it again.
Jealousy is their problem because currently there is no one in the House of Windsor with the amount of charisma, empathy or good looks as the Sussexes.
What do the Windsors not understand about telling Harry he’ll get no financial help from his family to live, ….and then when he earns his own money and paves his own way they have collective nervous breakdowns??
How thick are they? Serious question!
They are acting like they are forced to pay for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex through their taxes or something 🤷🏻♀️.. you know like the leftovers that when visiting the hosting country that country has no choice but to fund them… funny how that isn’t seen as using the Australians (or whatever country) as an atm… remember Chuck and Peggy are known to be paid in bags of cash they return from trips with, so who’s truly using others for personal profit.
They failed to mention that the money raised from Meghan’s event will go to charity.
That is the first time I have heard of it, It sounds like the sort of thing I would expect from Meghan.
In just a few short weeks I’m headed to Florida for a music festival. The whole package including travel (I drive so I can do stupid touristy stuff on the way down and visit family on the way back) will run me approximately 6 grand when all is said and done (I’ve adjusted for gas prices).
Do I HAVE to go? Is anyone FORCING me to fork over my hard earned money for something I really, really want to do and enjoy? Of course not. I’m choosing this as much as any Australian paying to attend Harry’s speech or the wellness retreat. No one is fleecing anyone, nothing is mandatory.
Except for the royal rota rats, they’re mandated to this crap.
Exactly! They are so b*tt hurt hence all the weeping and wailing. Love watching them simmer in their evil juices.
Enjoy your time here! I promise it’s not all crazy people. (Tampa Bay area at least)
Funny you should say that. During the last Nor’easter, I was helping one of my neighbors dig out her car and she told me that the weather was one of the reasons her family in Florida was always pressuring her to sell her condo and to move to Florida where they were. Well, my neighbor (a retired teacher) looked at me and said, “I could do that but then I’d have to live in Florida.” I looked at her and smiled knowingly. I didn’t want to get into politics with a stranger, but I got my message across, and I think she did too.
Hmmm
You know who *actually* uses countries as ATMs… The British royal family, living in England, living in homes and living a lifestyle funded by the British taxpayers and through generations of colonialism preying on other nations.
Probably cost this couple more to travel with their security and personnel than they will earn from this trip. Stay mad.
If you don’t want them to earn money, give them a 24 mil a year duchy with tax exemption, deal?
Ah yes, 2 whole speaking events in all of Australia is going to break the bank. Please. From seeing some of the bbc clips, it’s clear they’ve been given the message to say it’s both a private and a commercial tour, with a stress on the commercial. As if that’s tacky or something. What they fail to get is that nobody is getting mad at two people out there making money to live. In fact, a lot of people respect the hustle especially in comparison to the RF leeches. And again, ain’t no one being forced to buy a ticket.
Do these people not understand what capitalism is? People are being paid for goods or services. If you want neither you don’t have to pay. This is very different from not having any choice but to pay for the upkeep of a family that rules over you, like it or not. Worthwhile and beneficial or not.
“It is not clear how much Harry and Meghan are being paid for their appearances on the trip.” Why would this be any of your business? If the money isn’t coming from public funds, how are you justified in asking how much someone’s private salary is?
“So far, however, the retreat appears to be not fully booked.” Sounds like that would be an issue for the private event organizers who are funding it, it’s not taxpayer money so why do you care? That’s like Karen how much a concert sold out or not. Did they do any reporting on whether or not Kendrick and Doechii’s concert in Melbourne sold out or not? No?
This is their eternal problem. They want to treat private citizens like their government funded workers, just because they were in the past. You don’t get to treat them the same, and you don’t get to demand the same from them. And yeah a lot of the media reaction has a change of bitterness to it, because the actual public is giving them a warm welcome.
This was not the welcome that the king received, and they’ve spent years saying how everyone hates them, it really sticks in their craw that people are making their own judgments.
They understand how capitalism works. What they’re pissed about is Harry and Meghan’s continuous ability to make bucket loads of money.
They were supposed to be broke and desperate enough for them to come crawling back to The Firm. Stuff like this is preventing that. Also, they aren’t getting heckled like the left behinds.
“It is not clear how much” people reporting on Meghan and Harry “are being paid for their [own] appearances on the trip.” Are the reporters having to pay for the trip and appearances out of their own pockets? Are they being reimbursed? Or are the costs being paid directly by media outlets employing the reporters? “It is not clear how much” the media companies “are being paid for their” coverage of Harry and Meghan “on the trip.” Shouldn’t viewers and readers have access to the financial breakouts of media companies costs and advertising revenue generated from the coverage? Why are media and reporters so opaque about their financial compensation of “Meghan and Harry” coverage? How about a little reciprocal transparency?
“It is understood that the” media companies, The Times in particular, would like to keep their own financial incentives opaque when it comes to covering duke and duchess.
So odd. And also not true. They already said repeatedly no one is paying for this. So what are you talking about???
Could one of these rota rats explain, just once, why earning your own living is a such crime? As opposed to, you know, grifting on the British public by sucking tax-free £ millions in rent from moldy housing and unusable prison.
And two events. You guys. The Sussexes’ earnings from these two events doesn’t even seem that great when you take into account the costs of the event space, catering, security, media, and so on. Meanwhile, the Sussexes are doing multiple charity events including Invictus and the womens’ shelter, but the rats won’t report on those, will they.
The Royal Rota and BRF act similar to Fox News and Trump— always projecting their own inadequacies, greed, and bad behaviors onto others. The Rota treats us as if we are dumb like MAGAs or Kate Middleton and lazy Peg brexit fan club.
Well Brexiteers and Trump MAGAs along with the xenophobic//racist far right press took that to such an extreme, it has taken a decade for the UK to begin to recover economically from Brexit madness and now the whole world is suffering from the calamitous ruin of Trump’s cruelties and craziness.
Looking at the insane behaviors of Britain future King and his fading into oblivion consort, it’s like anticipating a Trumpian second term for the Brits and the monarchy. Things are going to spiral out of control with power-hungry and petty minded Will at the helm.
Jealousy is an ugly beast and the press is definitely showing their ugliness. They look rather silly after stating that Harry and Meghan would be unwelcome and met with boos.
Aww.. the derangers nightmare is coming true. The visit is going very well and they TRY VERY HARD TO SPIN IT INTO SOMETHING ELSE!! If you listen closely you can hear pillows being thrown and a man child screaming Australia is Mine Harold!!!!!
A royal tour to Australia by William and Kate would cost exponentially more and the Australian taxpayers would have to foot the bill. So who are the actual people using Australia like an ATM?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it yet again shows how the “school runners” are so blatantly disinterested in engaging with those who support the establishment in circumstances where the Wales’ have infinitely more political, institutional, financial and structural support to do what Harry and Meghan are getting on with (and to their critic’s chagrin, succeeding in). As an Australian, I was very happy to see the enthusiastic hospital crowd today welcoming them despite the pre-arrival smear campaign. Come on Aussie, come on, come on – come on Aussie, come on!!
The jealousy is soooooo REAL and HARD!!! CROWDS that haven’t been bused in cheering for them. Them actually doing something besides standing around trying not to look bored. Someone posted on threads that “If you’re still clinging to the old guard after seeing this, the embarrassment must be truly exhausting”. HAHAHAHAHA!!! I love this for them!!!
The “problem” is that the money is not flowing to the Windsors. They have always angled to extract every bit of capital during overseas tours. They just keep the mechanics hidden. So they pressure the Royal Rota to scream about “commercial tackiness” because the Windsors want all that sweet, sweet cash for themselves.
Jealous inbred hypocrites.
PS: Could we crowdsource a new knickname for Peggington along the lines of “rancid cabbage patch doll”?
Rancid Cabbage Patch doll is JD Vance’s. We need something else for Sir William of Peggingtonville.
They act like the Sussex’s are charging rent for an unusable prison and virtually uninhabitable homes while being funded by the subjects for an additional 500 million pounds a year or something.. I find it hard to be outraged by the one couple that got off the Royal Welfare gravy train.
Amen!
The derangers don’t have to read about them or watch. They get all riled up. About the jam and netflix shows. They don’t like them and the titles should go and so on. Nobody is asking them to watch. But they go on about how Meghan looks at someone or how harry looks sad. Derangers have no lives
The British have a long history of “cutting their noses off the spite their faces”/being on the wrong side of history/trends. Brexit, Sussexit, Princess Diana elimination, providing comfort to many pedos (prince andrew, jimmy savile, mountbatten,je, to name a few), etc.
Prepare for the british media lead by madam tominey to push dozens of articles telling us “the sun rises in the south and sets up north”.
Why are they still so confused and resentful that the Sussexes work for a living and that includes making paid appearances? Anyway the first day of the trip went amazingly well, they look incredible, people were welcoming and they have a very busy packed schedule.
It is sour grapes given how combined forces of RF, RR and BM drove them away and now they are kicking themselves because instead of having Harry and Meghan burnishing the reputation of the monarchy they are stuck with lazy and lackluster PoWs. Sucks to be them and are such poor losers. They 💯 wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about this tour if they were satisfied with heir ‘s inertia and inability 🫅
Meghan looks so happy when she’s around other women and girls. Kate could never.
And that’s the crux of the matter: Britain could have enjoyed the benefits of these two charismatic, energetic, caring people moving around the world on their behalf. But they weaponized William’s and Kate’s jealousy and their own racism to drive them away.
Cry me a river.
Yes, it’s almost like someone offered them 1000s of shares of Microsoft at the IPO price, and they just threw it back in the giver’s face. Stupid is as stupid does.
The entire British monarchy is tax payer funded plus Willy is collecting money from moldy , gas infested buildings but sure, harry and Meghan working for a living is the problem. These people make my blood boil
Watching the Windsors I’m starting to understand why the Bible call bitter jealousy demonic. It says “where jealousy exists there will be disorder and every vile practice” and does that not perfectly describe the Windsors? Harry’s own brother and father want him and his family eliminated because they are so jealous of their popularity. They hire bots and trolls to attack children, veterans, charities and philanthropic organizations in order to isolate and cripple the couple. There truly is no end in how low they will go to destroy Harry and Meghan just because they are more popular than them.
Wasn’t anybody a strategic thinker on both a short term or long term basis? Okay no one could have predicted King getting cancer but in 2020 it was obvious that heir and wife weren’t going to change and suddenly become big hitters on the work and outreach front at home and abroad. Neither were upskilling and gaining experience instead patchy work record and unserious work skits. Did Will promise Queen and pa that he was going to get his act together if they banished Meg and Harry!? Why would you believe Will was suddenly going to snap out of his lethargy and suddenly be an effective PoW? I wonder if Chuck was like I am going to be King for 20 years and am NOT sharing the limelight with Diana’s sons so it suited him to have Will be so lazy and banish Harry and Meg.
Gore Vidal, as ever, (no pun!!) for the ages: “Narcissism is a quality we attribute to those more attractive than ourselves.”
So much hatred and fear pouring out of those people .. fear being the operative. Mental health checks needed for all of them.