Earlier this week, we reported that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are currently in Australia for what experts are describing as a “faux royal tour.” Now, this tour has officially backfired on the couple, as the people of Australia are officially turning on them.
Australians Turn On Meghan And Harry
Meghan, 44, and Harry’s, 41, first stop in Australia was at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. There, staffers and patients alike were brought out to greet them.
Sadly, many of the children who were undergoing chemotherapy, radiation and other cancer treatments were unmasked. Meghan and Harry were also unmasked despite the fact that they had just gotten off of an international flight. This left staffers at the hospital fuming.
“Who does that?” one livid Australian nurse practitioner told News Nation. “These children are extremely susceptible to germs, and they don’t mask up? After an international flight? And no one even saw them wash their hands before they cuddled those kids. Last month, Meghan went to an American children’s hospital and wore a mask — so why not here? This is outrageous!”
Others in Australia were furious that photos of the sick children with Meghan and Harry were immediately sent out to the world.
“They talk about privacy online and won’t show their children’s (full) faces, but our sick children are fair game?” another Aussie ranted. “They are using these kids as PR but also hypocritically putting them online.”
Royal Experts Weigh In
This comes after royal insiders slammed Meghan and Harry for embarking on a “faux royal tour” of Australia. They’d previously traveled to Australia for an official royal tour in 2018. Two years later, they stepped down as senior royals. They then moved across the world to Southern California, where Meghan was born and raised.
“The palace is unhappy about these rent-a-royal tours because it blatantly disregards the late Queen’s very specific instruction that there can be no half-in, half-out for the Sussexes,” Kinsey Schofield, host of YouTube’s “Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered,” told Fox News.
“All they are doing in Australia is monetizing their titles and clinging to royal relevance, even though most of Prince Harry’s family refuse to take his phone calls,” she added. “The purpose of the Australian tour is monetary, but it is also to look like royals because the world has rejected Harry and Meghan as reality stars and podcasters. Their relevance remains through their proximity to the British royal family. The royal family thinks it’s disrespectful.”
British broadcaster and photographer Helena Chard was quick to agree.
“This faux royal roadshow elevates the Sussex brand while undermining the very institution that gave them the platform,” she argued. “The Australians are asking: Who exactly is this tour for?”
Buckingham Palace Has ‘No Control’
Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted, as Meghan and Harry are not working royals. Royal writer Robert Jobson, author of “The Windsor Legacy,” believes that palace aides are likely extremely annoyed by their trip.
“I’m sure [Buckingham Palace] would prefer that Harry and Meghan weren’t going. But there’s not a lot they can do about it. They have no control,” Jobson told Page Six. “There will undoubtedly be a sense of confusion about what Harry and Meghan are there for … this trip may stick in the gullet of the palace.”
“They yearn for the catnip of attention,” one palace source added of the couple.
The fact that even the people of Australia are angry with Meghan and Harry after this tour just goes to show how much it has backfired on them. Perhaps Meghan and Harry should have just stayed in their California mansion this week, because this trip was a total fail!