Five months after their royal wedding ceremony at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle embarked on a 16-day tour of Australasia.
The newlyweds headed to Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand in October 2018, a tour which coincided with the Invictus Games, which had been held in Sydney that 12 months.
The royal couple’s journey was unforgettable for a lot of causes, together with the announcement of Meghan’s being pregnant on the eve of their first day on tour.
For all of the media accredited on the journey, nonetheless, there are a few stand-out moments that also stay of their reminiscence – and they’re not all nice.
In the newest episode of A Right Royal Podcast, which you’ll hear to beneath, former royal correspondent and creator Valentine Low relived a very awkward second he and his different press colleagues had with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they started their journey again to the UK after being other than their households for over 16 days overlaying the royal tour.
Valentine advised hosts Andrea Caamano, Emmy Griffiths and HELLO! royal editor Emily Nash: “We were flying from Tonga back to Sydney. And often on these tours, there comes a point towards the end, when the royal might come back to the back of the plane and have a chat with us off the record, you know, not for printing, but it’s a way of making bonds. It’s a way of keeping us sweet. It’s a way of having informal contact. And we were promised that he or they would come to the back of the plane, and it didn’t happen. It didn’t happen and this was a four or five-hour flight, ‘When’s this gonna happen?’”
He continued: “Then we were buckling up for the descent and we landed. And it hadn’t happened. And only after we landed, they came back into the back of the plane. And Harry was slightly in front of Meghan, she was slightly behind him. And she didn’t say much. She did make some strange remark about us wanting to get back for our Sunday lunch. And it was completely bizarre. But it’s what he said that was memorable. He said, ‘Thanks very much for coming, even though you weren’t invited.’ And we thought, ‘What?’”
Valentine went on to add how he and different royal correspondents reacted in addition to Prince Harry’s comment to his personal secretary when he defined to him that his comment had been seen as “rude”.
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