Next month, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will travel to Australia. A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed the couple “will visit Australia in mid-April to take part in a number of private, business and philanthropic engagements,” and that “further details will be shared in due course.”
Harry and Meghan have reportedly been planning this visit for around a year, and they will not bring their children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, who will be in school during their trip.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit South Melbourne Beach on October 18, 2018.
The Sussexes last visited Australia in October 2018, as part of a longer royal tour of the Pacific. In Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, he wrote about the reaction to Meghan during their trip. “Everywhere we went, enormous crowds turned out, and she didn’t disappoint them. All across Australia, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, she dazzled,” he detailed. “After one especially rousing speech, she got a standing ovation. She was so brilliant that midway through the tour I felt compelled…to warn her. You’re doing too well, my love. Too damn well. You’re making it look too easy. This is how everything started…with my mother. Maybe I sounded mad, paranoid. But everyone knew that Mummy’s situation went from bad to worse when she showed the world, showed the family, that she was better at touring, better at connecting with people, better at being ‘royal,’ than she had any right to be.”
During their sit-down with Oprah in 2021, Harry told the talk show host, “It was the first time the family got to see how incredible she was at the job.” When Oprah asked if members of the royal family were jealous, he replied, “To see how effortless it was for Meghan to come into the family…. to just be able to connect with people…”
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Amman, Jordan, February 2026.
No details have been shared yet on their Australia itinerary, but News.com.au reported that it’s rumored Meghan may appear on the “Her Best Life” podcast during a live taping while Down Under, and that Harry may have engagements with Australia’s armed forces and veterans’ communities.
It will mark their second overseas trip this year as a couple; they recently visited Jordan with the World Health Organization.
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