{"id":958797,"date":"2026-05-14T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:32:14","slug":"meghan-markle-prince-harry-watched-so-carefully-for-a-reason-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958797\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle & Prince Harry ‘Watched So Carefully’ for a Reason \u2014 Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle<\/strong> and Prince Harry<\/strong> recently returned from a four-day trip to Australia after attending some private business engagements, philanthropic events, and speaking appearances. While their \u201cfaux royal\u201d tour received mixed reactions from the public, a source says the visit is being \u201cwatched so carefully\u201d behind palace doors as an unofficial \u201ctrial run\u201d before their UK return.<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry making royals \u2018uneasy\u2019 over their latest Australia trip, per source<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry recently returned from their Australia trip<\/a>. It was their first tour to Down Under since their 2018 official royal visit, and before giving up their royal duties. However, insiders claim that their \u201cfaux royal tour\u201d is being viewed behind palace doors as an unofficial \u201ctrial run\u201d for the Sussexes\u2018<\/strong> UK return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind the scenes, the Australia visit is now being viewed as far more than just another overseas work trip for Harry and Meghan,\u201d an insider told RadarOnline.com<\/a>.They added that the visit \u201cserves as a very deliberate test case for the kind of role\u201d the couple set for themselves \u201cinternationally moving forward \u2013 something that still carries the polish, glamour and public impact of a royal tour, but entirely on their own terms and outside the control of Buckingham Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the source further clarified that their trip made \u201cpeople inside the institution uneasy\u201d due to the growing perception that the Sussexes are \u201ceffectively trying to build their own independent version of a royal court abroad.\u201d <\/p>\n

This did not sit well with many, as from the \u201cpalace\u2019s perspective,\u201d their trip blurred \u201cthe lines between official royal business and the Sussexes\u2019 private commercial brand.\u201d Thus, there is growing concern that the people could start seeing the Sussexes as a \u201csort of rival or parallel branch of the monarchy operating independently from Buckingham Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why trips like Australia are being watched so carefully,\u201d revealed the source, who further stated that even though the Sussexes \u201care popular,\u201d it\u2019s about whether the couple can \u201csuccessfully position themselves as quasi-royal global figures outside the institution, and whether that eventually creates tension for the Royal Family itself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry recently returned from a four-day trip to Australia after attending some private business…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[388,22881,1281,447,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-958797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-lifestyle","9":"tag-lifestyle-news","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-prince-harry","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116571769809710270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}