{"id":45867,"date":"2026-04-09T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45867"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:21:44","slug":"harry-and-megans-aussie-flop-fears-as-ticket-sales-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=45867","title":{"rendered":"Harry and Megan&#8217;s Aussie Flop Fears as Ticket Sales Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (remember them?) have an April tour of Australia poised for a rocky start as tickets struggle to sell and the couple are warned the trip could build tensions with King Charles due to its timing.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are slated to land in Australia on Thursday to take part in a mid-April <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/prince-harry-and-meghan-return-to-australia-for-the-first-time-since-royal-exit-20260409-p5zmhb.html\">tour<\/a>\u00a0that will see them participate in\u00a0a number of \u201cprivate, business, and philanthropic engagements,\u201d\u00a0marking their first trip trip to Australia following their October 2018 visit to Sydney and after the pair departed from the British Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the items in their agenda include keynote speech on workplace mental health by Prince Harry\u00a0at the InterEdge Summit in Melbourne, with Meghan hosting a\u00a0three-day \u201cin-person conversation\u201d at a luxury Sydney hotel addressing a broad range of subjects.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#1637835155288080388\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1637835155288080388\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sky News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynews.com.au\/lifestyle\/celebrity-life\/sussexes-aussie-trip-in-peril-as-prince-harrys-melbourne-event-sees-ticket-prices-slashed-while-meghan-markles-3000-retreat-struggles-to-sell\/news-story\/6a049c012b2b00bcfcdcdde472717121\">reports<\/a> that their events appear to be facing attendance troubles, as tickets for Prince Harry\u2019s speech at the Melbourne summit have been slashed by half in the final week before the event, going from $1,978 to $997. Prince Harry will join retired tennis champion Jelena Dokic and other speakers at the mental health keynote.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sky News, Prince Harry will be paid $50,000 for his upcoming keynote speech \u2014 an amount significantly lower than the $1 million he was reportedly paid to attend a JP Morgan event in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Meghan Markle, for her part, is reportedly expected to receive $250,000 for \u201cHer Best Life,\u201d the in-person retreat that she will host at the\u00a0Intercontinental Hotel in Coogee, Sydney, from April 17-19 and which has an entry fee of $3,000. While the event\u2019s organizers radio star Jackie \u2018O\u2019 Henderson and her manager Gemma O\u2019Neill\u00a0initially claimed that Meghan\u2019s event had been \u201csold out\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Sky News noted that the O\u2019Neill recently announced through Instagram that\u00a0the hotel had \u201ckindly released a handful of additional rooms\u201d, encouraging interested guests to enquire via direct message.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWyJUCFiS3s\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, according to royal commentator\u00a0Richard Palmer,\u00a0Markle has been warned that, with her Australia trip, described as her \u201crevenge\u201d might risk escalating tensions with King Charles, as the pair\u2019s trip to Australia coincides with what would have been\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s 100th birthday on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir Australia trip is one of, if not the, most anticipated royal events of the year,\u201d Palmer reportedly said. \u201cThey want to prove their critics wrong, so will be hoping it is a huge success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is, it will be Meghan\u2019s revenge,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2026\/04\/09\/report-harry-and-megs-aussie-flop-fears-as-tickets-struggle-to-sell\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (remember them?) have an April tour of Australia poised for a rocky start as tickets struggle to sell and the couple&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}